Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many Americans found it hard to avoid looking at their surroundings in an unsettling new light, in which any abandoned package might be a grenade, any car a bomb. The possibility of domestic terrorism, first raised by the World Trade Center bombing and then dismissed as a big-city phenomenon, may finally be driven home. For some time to come Americans will be struggling with questions that were supposed to draw no closer than Jerusalem or Belfast or, at worst, Manhattan. Just how much can they do to make life safer from terrorist attacks? And to accomplish that, how much...
Amis sees the squabble as a peculiarly homegrown phenomenon. "There is very much a feeling in England that if you get a huge amount of money, then you can damn well put up with anything else that happens to you," he said in an interview with Time. The outcry against him, Amis added, "contained a strong element of old-fashioned anti-Americanism. I had an American agent, an American dentist, an American girlfriend. All those anti-American feelings that you thought had evaporated years ago re-emerged...
...date," says Greg C. Clayman '95. He is one of the few who believe dating is alive and well at Harvard. "Sometimes you don't know you're having a date until you're on it. I used to think that "dating" was a Happy Days phenomenon, but I've done it a lot. I don't think dating today is as formal as the term implies--people aren't like that. A date is when two people go out alone and they're not good friends. People at Harvard are dating. They just don't know that they...
Nevertheless, their situation prompted reflections upon long-distance relationships and the odds of their success. The couple considered most illustrative of this Phenomenon are the principals in last spring's sublime film, "Four Weddings and a Funeral"--at least before the denouement...
...describe our current pattern of residentiallife, we have a system where there are someexamples of critical masses of Blacks students,but I do not think this is a phenomenon that youfind throughout the house system," Epps says. "Idon't make any assumptions about the quality ofthe interaction between Black and white. The idealis to have some balance throughout...