Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sagan launches his own Grand Tour of just about everything in space that surrounds it. Elegantly and appealingly, he surveys the current state of knowledge about the solar system, nearby stars, distant galaxies and even the very edge of the universe. As he describes each heavenly body or cosmic phenomenon, the author imparts a healthy dose of science, making it palatable to the lay reader by using jargon-free English buoyed by emotion and humor...
...most intimate dimension of privacy, even the most disreputable (the more shameful the better, in fact), goes public. The significance of the phenomenon (the messiest personal or aberrational details of lives blown up to big- screen public dimensions) cannot be overstated. When people speak of the negativity of the time, this is what they mean -- the disassembly (usually electronic) of proportions and expectations: the energy released by a world turned inside out. The change may be an improvement. Sometimes it merely works like a slow-motion nuclear device dropped into the social order...
White male Harvard students always had an outlet if they sought classist elitism--the final clubs. Though exclusive and generally distasteful, at least these clubs could claim to be an indigenous Harvard phenomenon. Other students seeking a private space could help to explain the relatively recent advent of national fraternities and sororities. The appearance of women's Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta Gamma chapters in the last two years was accompanied by a chapter of Lambda Gamma Lambda, a predominantly Hispanic fraternity...
...particularly pernicious sign of the times is a phenomenon called frontloading, in which students drink alcohol, usually hard liquor, in private before attending a social event. "It's difficult to get alcohol when you're out because of the age law," explains Seph McKenna, a junior who lives in a substance-free dorm at Boston College. "So people say, 'I'd better be lubricated before I go out."' When writer Christopher Buckley gave the keynote address at the annual evening banquet of the Yale Daily News last month, he was so outraged by the boorish behavior of audience members, many...
...sure it's a scaling issue," said Susan Lewis, the director of the core program. "The same cluster phenomenon might occur...