Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purpose of the class is to all-low students to research a contemporary supernatural phenomenon in depth...
...What we see is a very strange phenomenon," hesays. Students are "taking substantive physicscourses to fulfill the Science A requirement...
There is no way of knowing yet: an entire winter of record-shattering cold, let alone a single week, might be a meaningless blip in the overall scheme of long-term climate trends. In fact, last week's cold wave was caused by a phenomenon that is by no means rare. The jet stream, a stratospheric wind that governs the movement of air over North America, dipped temporarily south of its usual course. As it did so, the stream pulled along a vast high-pressure system from Siberia and the Arctic Ocean...
...electorate last year voted against building and improving parks. Officials say they need to build 12 new schools a year through the end of the century to accommodate the projected population influx, but they fear voters will decline to pay for them. Such civic disengagement is now a national phenomenon, but Las Vegas is at the cutting edge -- and always has been. Back during the city's first spurt of urban hypertrophy in the '50s, when other new cities were grandly and confidently expanding their schools and social-welfare systems, Las Vegas was pointedly stingy...
...just opened. I thought I'd give it a try," Halme said. "Although I was not aware of the pervasiveness of the wood-fire pizza phenomenon, I do not find this trend remarkable...