Word: phenomenonal
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...panel, Park Jung-Sook, a former television news anchor in Korea, discussed the phenomenon from a reporter’s viewpoint, while J.Y.P came with a more personal perspective. He talked about his experiences working with Korean and foreign artists alike as he tries to strike a balance between popular hip-hop and music with a more Korean sound...
...this phenomenon is not relegated to University life. Local politicians, from Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to State House Speaker Salvatore F. Dimasi, show solidarity with their electorate by dropping their r’s. Even the effete Kennedy’s, New England’s most famed political clan, are known for their uniquely Boston pronunciations...
...intersected Friday when Harvard’s Korea Institute hosted a panel discussion on the effects and future of “Hallyu” or the “Korean wave” of pop culture in East Asia. The panel offered cross-disciplinary perspectives on the Hallyu phenomenon. The standing room only event featured Korean song writer and music manager Jin-Young Park and actress and television personality Jung-Sook Park—both famous in their fields. Several members of the panel said the flood of movies, music, and television programs is an important force in breaking...
...some extent, this public discontent is a worldwide phenomenon. Wages in all industrialized countries have been under pressure due to growing global competition and technological change. In Germany, for example, automotive workers over the past few years agreed to work longer and more flexible hours for no increase in pay to prevent their jobs moving to Slovakia and elsewhere. Such agreements have helped the German economy rebound, but they've stoked resentment, particularly since corporate profits, stock prices and the pay packets of top executives are soaring. The share of wages as a percentage of national income in industrialized countries...
...Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” fame, the film imagines a world in which women are no longer able to bear children. Based on P.D. James’ novel, the film opens eighteen years after the last baby has been born, a phenomenon that coincides with—and perhaps contributes to—staunch anti-immigration sentiment, widespread violence, extensive environmental damage, and the frequent advertisement of assisted suicide drugs. Perpetually scruffy and emotionally detached, Theo is left to protect the miraculously pregnant Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey) after her first defender Julian (Julianne Moore) is killed...