Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reel. And Michael Flatley, the volcanic star of the short segment, devised the choreography. All four had a background in television or the theater, which paid off in the show's drive and shrewd pacing. Americans are about to get their first look at this phenomenon...
...NATION CAN SUSTAIN A DEMOCRACY without a high level of education. Nor can a democracy be sustained without its basic economic issues resolved. The phenomenon of Buchanan's attraction lies not so much in any qualities of his own as in the conditions that we are allowing our country to slide into. People are eager for scapegoats and easy answers. ROXANNE WARREN New York City
...wash. Although the roots of Buchananism as a political philosophy are varied--from Theodore Roosevelt to Catholic theology to the America First movement of the 1930s--the roots of Buchananism as a popular phenomenon lie much closer to home. Republican politicians who are looking for someone to blame for this spoiler in their midst should look in the mirror. Buchanan's populist demagoguery, his fatuous targeting of so-called elites, his pandering to white middle-class self-pity, his scapegoating of minority and outsider groups--all these are familiar themes of Republican rhetoric of recent years...
Edwards said if no candidate emerges as the party's clear choice soon, the possibility exists for a brokered convention, a phenomenon absent from American politics for almost 30 years...
...responding to questions from instructors, Krupnick says, women are more contemplative, while men quicker to answer. She refers to this phenomenon as the "tyranny of fast reaction time...