Word: phenomenons
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...could do the more gracious thing, and perhaps in the end the more politically astute thing, going all out in support of Dukakis, mobilizing the hundreds of thousands of new voters he claims to have brought into the party. Jackson has long maintained that he is an important phenomenon in American politics because he has given people long locked out renewed--and in some cases, just plain new-faith in the system...
...confusing differences in the velocity of pressure waves; it could also help explain the mystery of the origin of the earth's magnetic field, as well as its unexplained reversals. About once every million years, magnetic north and south inexplicably exchange places. Scientists do not understand whether this phenomenon comes about gradually, say, over thousands of years, or all at once. One idea, advanced in recent years, is that turbulent eddies within the core-mantle boundary somehow give rise to electromagnetic disturbances that trigger the reversals. A rain of iron particles, say some scientists, might supply the energy to keep...
...other shoe had to drop sooner or later. For five years, atmospheric scientists have known that a 3,000-mile hole in the ozone layer develops over Antarctica during the southern spring. The phenomenon is dramatic evidence of ozone loss in the upper atmosphere, caused largely by man-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, which could leave the earth more vulnerable to cancer-inducing rays from the sun. Now, it seems, there is mounting evidence that the Arctic has its own ozone hole, albeit a smaller one. At the American Geophysical Union meeting last week in Baltimore, W.F.J. Evans, an atmospheric physicist...
When I play tennis with someone better than me, I play a better game. Though some may explain this phenomenon in terms of the large bet I'm usually hustled into, others see it as a matter of rising to the situation. Whether the motivation for rising to expectations is a desire to please or merely an aversion to embarrassment, the situation as it exists at Harvard imposes stifling constraints...
Then there is the phenomenon that has been analyzed long before us, by historians and sociologists since the beginnings of this century: where there is serious and durable unemployment, there is a push toward the nationalist right wing. Even when they lose their jobs, middle-class people remain faithful to their cultural patterns. Logically, they should move to the left and vote Communist. No. They move to the extreme right...