Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is not a new phenomenon. Minority students also held important posts last semester...
...many of these cases, the victims are falling to serial and multiple killers." Still, the notoriety these killers enjoy is out of proportion to their numbers. The FBI estimates there may only be dozens of serial killers operating in the U.S. Yet serial murder remains a peculiarly American phenomenon: 75% of the 160 or so repeat killers captured or identified in the past 20 years were...
...despite the great basketball that such teams can undoubtedly play, that can't be why March Madness inspires the brackets phenomenon. You know, sports sections everywhere being ravaged with predictions in ink and pencil above the thin lines which connect...
Most Angelenos went back to their jobs soon after the quake, possibly finding some of that refuge there, but employers discovered a phenomenon they call "on-the-job absenteeism." Workers take interminable breaks, have difficulty concentrating and generally show low productivity. "The reality is that many people are going to be operating at only 40% to 70% of normal speed," says Lilli Friedland, a member of the L.A. County Psychological Association disaster-response team...
...state real estate agents continue to receive inquiries from Angelenos who want to pull up stakes because of what Clearwater, Florida, agent Richard Cope calls L.A.'s "last-straw" phenomenon. "They all want charts of the fault lines in our area," explains Karen Lind, deputy director of Colorado's business-development office in Denver. "We decided to get out right after the earthquake," says Dubi Friedman, 47, owner of a clothing-design firm in the northern L.A. suburb of Valencia, who is moving to Las Vegas with his wife Irit and two children. "The damage is nothing...