Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, the court is pulled first thisaway, then thataway in a shifting tug-of-war as the Justices align themselves differently on almost every case. That tendency, noted in earlier terms, had been called a temporary phenomenon while a new majority matured. It now seems clear that the nature of this court is not to be an ideological player in the nation's politics, but rather to be an umpire calling the plays of others...
Industry insiders are split over the future of generics. James W. Johnston, an executive vice president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, strongly opposes following Liggett into generics. He and many other cigarette officials believe that the no-names are just a recession phenomenon. Says Johnston: "In my judgment, you've got to have the link between the consumer and an identifiable brand name. I predict that the success of generics will be short-lived." Liggett officials, on the other hand, believe that smokers will stick with their new, lower-cost smokes in better times. Says Dey: "There is still brand...
Einstein spent the last years of his life trying to show that the gravitational and electromagnetic forces were different aspects of the same phenomenon. Although he failed in his attempt at unification, theoretical physicists have now begun to glimpse an underlying oneness in the four basic forces. With their customary whimsy, they call these theories GUTs (for Grand Unified Theories). Central to this framework is the existence of new particles, tiny fragments of matter (or energy, since the two are interchangeable) less than a trillionth the size of a bacterium, itself only about a ten-thousandth of an inch long...
Hospitals-for-profit are not a new phenomenon, of course. Groups of local doctors have long owned some small facilities. But today those hospitals are more likely to be members of large national chains. Indeed, nearly 40% of all U.S. hospitals are already linked in multihospital systems. More than 60% are expected to belong to such groups...
Like all of these shows, E.T. is a part of the phenomenon it covers, another wheel in the publicity machine it seeks to explain. Many of its features perpetuate rather than puncture Hollywood myths. Notes a senior segment producer, Helaine Swerdloff: "There is a fine line between hype and news." The question for E.T. is which side of that line it will settle...