Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leaves underdeveloped is how the women's college experiences influenced, for good or bad, their choices and priorities later in life. Each left college believing she could balance marriage, family and a high-powered career. But the shattering of the Supermom ideal hardly is a new or exclusively Radcliffe phenomenon...
Some students found themselves dancing with partners they will probably not dance with on Saturday. Because more women than men attended the class--"the only time you'll ever experience this phenomenon at Harvard," Lee said--several all female couples graced the dance floor...
During his Prague speech, Gorbachev strongly criticized the past performance of the Soviet economy and made a strong pitch for his liberalization program. What was needed, he said, was not "small repairs" but a "radical reconstruction." Said Gorbachev: "The phenomenon of stagnation and the problems of the '70s cannot be tolerated anymore...
...Cambridge isn't unique, but it particularly attracts people. It has a larger-than-normal homeless population. Given an urban phenomenon, it's about the same as other cities nation-wide," Unterberger said...
...work is devoted to proving that sociology is a separate field that cannot be incorporated into the existing ones of psychology, philosophy and history. His work, and most sociological scholarship, can be considered to contain fixed political perspectives in many ways. It considers religion, for example, a social phenomenon rather than a divinely inspired necessity...