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...herself suggests that the changed relationship of the general public to images spawned by the invention of the printing press was a phenomenon similar to the tumultuous alterations currently resulting from the Internet. "The presence of the Internet in our world changes the way we perceive images...
...shuttle as social forum is a uniquely Quad phenomenon, with its own etiquette and protocol. But your problem is fairly universal...
There is no starker example of the phenomenon of corporate welfare and vanishing jobs than General Electric Co. In 1986 GE, fresh from acquiring RCA, employed 288,000 workers in this country. By 1997 the number had fallen to 165,000. During the period that GE cut those 123,000 jobs in the U.S.--43% of its workforce--the company collected several billion dollars in corporate welfare...
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...
...been a common phenomenon in the history of the Core: students register for core courses expecting guts, only to be confounded by hundreds of pages of reading, multiple problem sets and unexpectedly complicated theories each week. But this year, the problem seems endemic. Once passable courses like Literature & Arts B-51: "First Nights" are toughening their standards...