Word: phenomenons
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...struggle in Chicago may seem atavistic at a time when Americans would like to believe that overt bigotry is a diminishing phenomenon. There are now 15 major cities that have black mayors, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans and Washington. In some ways Chicago is a special case: two-thirds of its neighborhoods are 95% white or 95% black. And because there is otherwise so little to choose between the two lackluster candidates, the outcome will surely be read, right or wrong, as a litmus test on color...
Many scientists believe there is a common thread in this crazy-quilt weather, some fair, some foul, some just puzzling. It is a phenomenon known in Spanish as El Niño, a reference to the Christ child. Named by the fishermen of Peru and Ecuador, El Niño is a warm current of equatorial water that usually appears around Christmas off western South America. The peculiar ocean movement sharply reduces the fish catch, especially anchovies, which are ground up and sold as meal for livestock and poultry. The present El Niño, which first appeared last June...
...scientists study El Niño, they are finding that it is really a much broader disturbance of ocean currents and winds that ranges far across the Pacific and even beyond. One aspect of this larger phenomenon is an event weather scientists call the southern oscillation, a flip-flop-like reversal of atmospheric pressures at opposite sides of the great ocean. At this time of year, a great, spongy mass of warm, wet air ordinarily hangs over Australia and Indonesia, while the eastern side of the Pacific is covered with relatively dry, cool air. Not so in 1983. A high...
MARCH 28 MARKED the 25th anniversary of Harvard Day, a phenomenon that remains testimony to the University's lost cultural preeminence. On that day, a major fundraising campaign in the Northeast kicked off with a radio show entitled "The Case for the College" Broadcast nationwide on CBS and NBC radio and worldwide on Voice of America and Armed Forces Radio Services, the show solicited contributions from Harvard alumni and society at large...
...phenomenon is not peculiar to those people who have never been interested in sports in general. It also encompasses those who read Leigh Montville daily and entertain themselves frequently by playing catch. The number-of fans who remain faithful to professional baseball has dropped alarmingly...