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Tackling the cause not the sympton is the way forward.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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The root cause rather than the sympton in other words.
Hansen and the "Destruction of Creation" « Climate Audit 2007
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The Tea Party and other groups are a sympton of this arrogance of power.
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He is just the sympton that American are embracing.
Transmitting History 2008
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A unionized workforce is sympton of a failed relationship.
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I fear that this is just another sympton of the dumbing down of the nation.
Good Americans and bad English Paul Mulshine 2009
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If the delay was a sympton of the legal system as a whole the conviction stands.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power: 2009
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Erza Klein in all of his shallow, undergraduate banality is one sympton of this larger problem.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Wonk-Snark the New Genre? Unkind Thoughts About Ezra Klein 2009
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If, as has been stated, the Hillary campaign is trying to stop Obama by strategizing/supporting Edwards in Iowa, then that too is a symptom of not being able to win on merits; that would be a sympton of trying to win through an intentional 'divide and conquer' politics.
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I think the lack of a functioning nationwide party has been both a sympton and a cause of the Democratic Party's decision to try to play the Republican money game of hoovering up large donations from special interests and the wealthy.
Audio: Hillary Privately Blasted "The Activist Base Of The Democratic Party" For Caucus Defeats 2009
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