Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...broad center held the faith, he could exercise power and did. But something changed in the past few weeks. Patience ran out in the middle. A lot of people who live out there on their wits and energy began to take matters into their hands. It is a phenomenon as old as the Republic and one of its greatest strengths...
...withstand pressure. In the first two Sealab missions (1964-65), aquanauts spent nine days or more in a 57-ft.-long steel cylinder some 200 ft. below the ocean's surface. Observing from above, "Papa Topside" found that the men could function but became susceptible to the "breakaway phenomenon," suffering capricious fits of insubordination. The program ended after a fatality during a 1969 mission...
...murders of McDuffie in 1980 and Johnson this month offered some intriguing parallels. I spent a full day with library microfilm looking at 1980 newspaper accounts. A little more research revealed a recurring phenomenon. All over the country in the last few years, policemen have wounded or killed people under circumstances that range from questionable to openly criminal...
This most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video game, is its least significant. But even if the buzz and clang of the arcades is largely a teen-age fad, doomed to go the way of Rubik's Cube and the Hula Hoop, it is nonetheless a remarkable phenomenon. About 20 corporations are selling some 250 different game cassettes for roughly $2 billion this year. According to some estimates, more than half of all the personal computers bought for home use are devoted mainly to games...
...perfect economy, some members of the labor force would turn out to be unemployed whenever the statistics were collected-people shifting from one job to another or changing careers, for example, and people just coming into the labor force and beginning to look for work. Economists call this phenomenon "frictional" unemployment, and some, including Feldstein, are counting it as part of structural unemployment when they use a rate as high as 6% or 7%. According to some rough calculations, about half of that is probably frictional...