Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diverse as Glass and James Brown. The band found a niche where the avantgarde and the mainstream could nicely accommodate each other. Says Byrne: "The band and I existed in a kind of middle ground, somewhat art, somewhat popular, so we ended up being caught in that whole phenomenon...
Polanyi took a different approach. He studied chemical reactions by analyzing the faint infrared light emitted when molecules link up to form new substances, a phenomenon known as chemiluminescence. Says Polanyi: "You can see the dance of the molecules as they break up and are created." One application: the radiation can be amplified to produce a powerful new class of lasers...
...Pope Pius X's effort early in the century to crush the modernist movement. That dispute, says Grisez, "was basically a much smaller thing than what's happening now." Similarly underscoring the significance of the situation, the Vatican's official spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, stated last week that "this phenomenon of dissent, in the U.S. and elsewhere, touches the very nature of the church. The real question is no longer abortion, or even moral theology as a whole. It is the essence of Catholic faith about the church, its structure and how it works...
...index futures and stock-index options. In the past, massive computer-triggered "program trading" has pushed the market up or down steeply when the witching hour struck. Now the SEC has decided to look into such selling waves whenever they occur. Whether anything can then be done about the phenomenon is unclear. As if to emphasize this point, the Dow slumped almost 35 points in a single day last week, before closing Friday at 1769.69, 7 points higher than a week earlier...
...what of Rita Ratchen these days? "I see it as a natural phenomenon," she said over coffee the other morning in the LK Restaurant down the road from the soybean tank. As she spoke, a waitress came over with a tally sheet from the home office, showing that the establishment's volume since Jesus was sighted has moved it from 53rd place in a 55-restaurant chain to third place. "It is caused by the lights and the rust," Rita went on, "but I believe the Lord permitted it to happen. Just as I believe the Lord permits things...