Word: phenomenon
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...This Phenomenon is not unique to undergraduates. One professor told my class this spring that he really prefers associating with his graduate school peers rather than linking himself to his Harvard College class...
Addressing more than 30 people at the Cambridge Friends Meeting House, Ross Gelbspan said weather changes are part of a larger phenomenon of environmental havoc resulting from air pollutants...
...curriculum includes titles such as Gen Ed 103, "AIDS, Health and Human Rights"; Gen Ed 136, "Explaining the Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide"; Adams 122, "Printed Books as a Field of Study"; and Quincy 121, "A History of Zoos...
...cinematography, stubbornly trying to supply the moods and textures missing from the script. In the end, though, Twister proves what everyone already knows--that great visual effects alone cannot carry a picture to anything but insane profitability. And that Michael Crichton has never met man, woman or scientific phenomenon that he cannot convert to dehumanized cliche...
...black leaders in December 1988, Jesse Jackson and others suggested that "African-American" should replace "black" as the term of choice. Since then, "African-American" has been gaining ground among black leaders, politicians and the national press. In the past four years at Harvard, I witnessed the fascinating phenomenon of a label in transition: students coming to the point in a sentence where the proper racial label should be inserted would hesitate, even freeze, before gingerly choosing one. At times I would avoid using either term, electing to leave the person's race unspecified rather than choose between...