Word: phenomenons
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Lewis attributes this phenomenon to the fact that students can take certain departmental courses to meet the science core requirement and to the fact that science core courses tend to be offered each year...
...THRESHOLD OF A NEW MILLENNIUM WE ARE WITNESSING an extraordinary global acceleration of that quest for freedom which is one of the great dynamics of human history. This phenomenon is not limited to any one part of the world; nor is it the expression of any single culture. Men and women throughout the world, even when threatened by violence, have taken the risk of freedom, asking to be given a place in social, political and economic life which is commensurate with their dignity as free human beings...
...author of steamy best-selling novels, but he is also a sociologist who has spent more than 30 years analyzing his fellow American Catholics. He finds "practically no increase in those born Catholic who no longer identify as Catholic--the defection rate." How does Greeley account for this phenomenon? "They like being Catholic...
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, 54, editor since 1988 of the liberal Catholic biweekly Commonweal, is less sanguine than Neuhaus about this phenomenon: "The fact that the Catholic Church is so rich in institutional life was due to women religious, and their disappearance has gone almost unlamented. They made an enormous contribution...
...secular, materialist orientation of our society may be an understandable phenomenon in light of our society's "diversity." But that doesn't mean it's not regrettable as well...