Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it is just that the public grows bored after a while of seeing the same names in the headlines and reacts accordingly. Maybe it is as simple a phenomenon as jealousy of the success of others. Maybe the brief half-life of celebrity is due to our much-maligned disposable MTV culture, which tailors advertisements and events to viewers who are assumed to have the attention span of an electron...
...Internet Tax Freedom Act is another example of Internet hubris. The Internet, to its most blindly enthusiastic partisans, is a thing apart: more glorious and yet more sensitive to ill winds than any mere earthly phenomenon. The normal rules do not and should not apply...
...Louise took away Matthew, and the judge took away justice," Mrs. Eappen insisted. But Silverglate points to a deeper phenomenon: "In this country for the last decade or so," he says, "the child protection community has become a child abuse cult...
Fortunately for those who can't make it to the show, Stomp seems to be proliferating into a cultural phenomenon: you might check out its website at http://www.usinteractive.com/stomp/home.html. The page includes, charmingly enough, a section for teachers and children on teaching about sound and rythm in the classroom, linked from the Museum of Science. Or you might look up Cresswell and McNicholas's sound-track from the Showtime movie Riot, or their composition on Quincy Jones's album Q's Juke Joint, or the upcoming public-television special...
...package seemed to calm world stock markets, at least temporarily, leaving the Fed chairman to puzzle anew over the combination of muscular economic growth and low inflation that have characterized the U.S. expansion since 1992. He frequently refers to the phenomenon as a "new paradigm," although he remains chary of how durable it will prove. Greenspan and other economists credit the spread of technology with improved productivity, which paves the way for faster economic growth without price increases. The problem: productivity increases are difficult and sometimes impossible to document. Nevertheless, there is no doubt about the spread of high technology...