Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first group to tour Lebanon under American and Lebanese auspices only. Among the findings of our mission: 1) the senseless bloodshed and destruction are overwhelming, 2) humanitarian aid is desperately needed and is not reaching those who have been victimized by the war, and 3) there is a unique phenomenon in Israel promoted by civilians and politicians seeking peace, the Peace Now movement...
Industrial espionage is hardly a new phenomenon. Since earliest times, in fact, it has been a source of fear and the cause of extraordinary precautions. The ancient Chinese were so eager to preserve the secret of silkmaking that they prescribed death by torture for revealing it to outsiders. In 1790 Samuel Slater evaded English laws against exporting textile manufacturing plans by memorizing the layout of a mill to build the first cotton-yarn factory in America...
England's Gang of Four is another example of the phenomenon. The Gang disdains the time-honored rock themes of women, booze, and the counterculture. Instead, the Gang members address weighty topics such as "social structure" and the "relations of production"--all on a purely theoretical level. The approach is slightly absurd. Not that a few committed radicals can't have some good ideas set to music, but the thought of these guitar dogmatists pounding out their Marxism so relentlessly, earnestly, and literally must have Karl rolling in his grave...
...spoke with either has the disease or knows someone who has it." Los Angeles Bureau Reporter Cheryl Crooks found that "in talking with herpes sufferers, I realized how little accurate medical information they had about their own disease." Part of the herpes problem today is that discussion of the phenomenon sometimes seems almost as off-putting as the disease itself. A TIME reporter in the South had to fight the reluctance of conservative Western Union operators in Mississippi to transmit her reports. They said they found the material distasteful. Indeed, the transmission of the files was delayed until the arrival...
...telegraph terminal, but only the legends of Lincoln's days remained. When Manning retired three weeks ago, as head of the White House's travel and telegraph impresario he was known in governments around the world as the impresario of transport and electronics for that modern phenomenon of communication called the White House press corps. It was Manning who helped keep the news umbilical hooked up to the presidency, from Lahore to Reykjavik. He traveled 4 million miles in the line of duty...