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Early-season predictions of Tiger strength have become rather regular phenomena in the racing world. Starting its schedule with two easy races against Rutgers and against a Navy crew which annually meets windy and rough conditions on the Severn River before competition begins, Princeton usually comes to Cambridge with an impressive record...
Brown is more concerned with concrete achievements and failures than with intangible sociological phenomena, but his explanation for his loss is particularly apt. Certainly his sponsorship of an unpopular fair housing act, the Watts and Fillmore riots, and repeated demonstrations at Berkeley also played a part in his loss, but behind these issues lies a more important truth about California: the state today is very different from what it was eight years ago, when Brown was first elected governor. And Brown's mistake was that he realized this too late -- after the election...
...conservatives who quite frequently are one and the same. Or it could be left to those liberals who on becoming associated with foreign policy could convert to the official cliches and the doctrines of John Foster Dulles on a moment's notice. Liberalism has few more depressing phenomena than its instant apologists where foreign policy is concerned...
Soon afterward, the moon's orbit began gradually spiraling outward to its present 239,000 miles. The tidal phenomena, though substantially reduced by distance, are still at work. The moon is still receding from the earth by about one inch every year. And the tidal braking effects are still at work increasing the length of the earth's day by .0018 seconds every century...
STUDENT: I know. "Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must be taken into account...