Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This pilgrimage phenomenon is known to Freeport natives and store employees alike. "I think it becomes a mark of distinction to be able to say, 'I was in L.L. Bean at 2:30 in the morning,'" says D. Kilt Andrew, L.L. Bean's manager for public affairs...
Three experts, speaking at a School of Public Health forum, yesterday debated the causes of homelessness, faulting the federal government, state mental hospitals and the housing market for the growing phenomenon...
This American phenomenon, of itself, is simply not a worthy battleground for a debate about pornography. Why? Because there will always be something less tasteful, more objectifying, more degrading than the "tasteful" photographs of women-on-the-beach that the weekly sports magazine sports once a year...
Judicate is only one example of a phenomenon known as privatization, which is becoming increasingly commonplace across the U.S. More and more companies are taking on tasks that are traditionally performed by government. These firms are earning profits by operating transit systems, cleaning streets and even fighting fires. Cities and towns are finding that private companies can often get things done more efficiently and cheaply than civil servants...
...field about as strong as earth's but topsy-turvy by terrestrial standards, with the north magnetic pole displaced by 55 degrees from the south geographic pole. The odd arrangement led scientists to speculate that Voyager had caught the magnetic field in the process of reversing its polarity, a phenomenon that has occurred often on earth, most recently about 700,000 years...