Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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History is no guide. Nations are not some natural, organic phenomenon but complex accumulations of strength, alliances and enmities. And the passion for nationhood has swung between eras of consolidation and fragmentation: the single-state world of the Roman Empire; the 500-odd nations of the 1500s Renaissance. In the post-cold war age, people impatient with the map they've inherited appear to be caught in between. A globalized economy is melting down the relevance of nationhood at the same time that the dispossessed's unrealized yearnings to be a state are gaining legitimacy...
Women tend to suffer their first heart attack 10 years older than men. Yet, partly because the women are older, those heart attacks are more often fatal. This is a postmenopausal phenomenon, a trade-off for years of protection from estrogen. Staying bathed in the hormone keeps blood vessels elastic and free of hardened-plaque formations. Estrogen also instructs the liver to churn out more HDL, or good cholesterol, which pulls plaque away from artery walls...
...explanation for this phenomenon is that we simply don't want to air all of our dirty laundry. Unless they're part of the Harvard family, better they shouldn't know that there's no advising system to speak of. More importantly, we recognize that the weight of our diplomas rests on Harvard's reputation in the outside world. Unless we cooperate every year to attract a new crop of the best and brightest, that reputation and consequently our own standing will suffer. In the case of the our parents, we just want them to feel that the great cost...
...familiar "worlds colliding" phenomenon. The two lovebirds share some of the same friends, who probably have strong opinions about the significant other. And if their friends are anything like mine, they won't hesitate in sharing their opinion of the boyfriend or girlfriend, be it positive or negative. This makes it hard to view the relationship objectively because friends continually inject feedback about the other person...
...familiar "words colliding" phenomenon. The two lovebirds share some of the same friends, who probably have strong opinions about the significant other. And if their friends are anything like mine, they won't hesitate in sharing their opinion of the boyfriend or girlfriend, be it positive or negative. This makes it hard to view the relationship objectively because friends continually inject feedback about the other person...