Word: symptomized
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...professors disagreed with the earlier letter's claim that the recent parody of murdered feminist scholar Mary Joe Frug's piece in the spoof edition of the Law Review was a symptom of a larger problem of sexism at the Law School. The piece con- tained what critics claimed to be misogynisticand insensitive comments...
...scholars said the spoof was not aone-time incident perpetrated by a fewindividuals, but was a "symptom of a much widerproblem...
...some professors emphasize that "the education deficit" is only a symptom of a greater social problem...
...half a century, doctors have been treating cystic fibrosis symptom by symptom, doing their best to stem the rising tide of mucus triggered by the disease. As this abnormally thick fluid builds up in the lungs, pancreas, liver and other organs, it not only serves as fertile ground for damaging infections but also blocks the passage of vital digestive enzymes to the intestine and stops up sperm in the testes. As a result, patients have difficulty breathing, digesting food and even reproducing. "This is a disease that simply wears you down," says Ramsey...
...What is important is not so much what Leonard Jeffries says as the fact that many Blacks listen to him," Mansfield said. "He's more important as a symptom than as a cause...