Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some may say the swing phenomenon is losing momentum, that certainly wasn't the feeling at The Roxy last Saturday night. Coming off their best-selling album Zoot Suit Riot and the hit single of the same name, 1998 has been a good year for the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the Seattle-based band that mixes a swing-oriented style with genres such as ska and punk to create their own unique sound...
Senior Melissa M. Milbert, who plays defense for the women's hockey team, has not experienced the same phenomenon. Although she has broken several bones and recently tore a major ligament in her knee for a second time, Milbert's injuries comprise a string of severe but non-related occurrences...
Another problem that companies face--and one that managers must solve quickly--is the phenomenon of Asian companies' flooding world markets with cheap products made even cheaper by Asia's falling currencies and by a desperate need to find new markets. The Pharmed Group of Miami, with $65 million in sales and 140 employees, has watched as its sales of latex gloves were hammered by this new competition. The company used to ship 2 million gloves a month to South American customers. Now, says president Jorge de Cespedes, "the Asians are dumping their products on our customers at such...
...racial turmoil portrayed in Bonfire was up front and confrontational and stomping on the streets. Atlanta, as Wolfe portrays it, handles this problem a lot differently. Fareek is a fairly typical contemporary phenomenon, a loutish, sullen, spoiled athlete wearing diamond ear studs and, Roger observes, "a gold chain so chunky you could have used it to pull an Isuzu pickup out of a red clay ditch." Fareek is also a local Atlanta boy who climbed to fame from a poor black neighborhood. And he has now been accused, though not yet formally charged, of date rape by the daughter...
This is part of the reason why so many of the people in Strong's book find it so hard to stop. Some have been cutting all their lives, now in their '40s or '50s, they are finally seeking help. Although self-abuse is not a new phenomenon, Strong reports that it is growing. In cities like San Francisco, there is a sub-culture of piercing and sado-masochism. "The growing social acceptance of at least some of the so-called body arts has blurred the line between self-expression and pathology," Strong says...