Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though many adopted children went on to live contented, successful lives, others suffered from the start and were slow to heal, a phenomenon largely ignored by the mental-health community. The visceral sense of loss, psychologists suggest, even in the case of infant adoptions, is an abiding , wound, too little understood. Adoptees represent 2% of the U.S. population, yet by some estimates they account for one-quarter of the patients in U.S. psychological treatment facilities. "There are many issues that are particularly critical for adoptive families -- issues of compatibility, intellectual mismatches, personality conflicts," says Ruth McRoy, a University of Texas...
Unfortunately, heart disease is a hideously complex phenomenon. Diet is just one of a panoply of risk factors, which also include heredity, smoking, high blood pressure and obesity. Even the idea that cholesterol is "bad" is seriously flawed, since the chemical is produced naturally in the body and is vital to the functioning of human cells. It is carried in the bloodstream by two types of molecules: low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL). Too much LDL is harmful because it contributes to the accumulation of fatty deposits that block arteries, but large amounts of HDL are thought...
...press coverage of two recent plane crashes provides a striking example of this phenomenon. Each accident had larger implications for the general safety of air travel. After a USAir jet plunged into New York City's East River on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport with a highly inexperienced crew at the controls, both pilot and co-pilot failed to make themselves available in timely fashion for drug and alcohol tests. When a French UTA jet exploded in midair after taking off from the African nation of Chad, investigators found evidence of a terrorist bomb, allegedly linked to Middle East events...
...adding commercials for local businesses, which include everything from pizza parlors to car washes; these ads are sometimes in addition to those already inserted by the studios. With the same kind of self-righteous growl a dog utters when a rival approaches his dinner bowl, Paramount, which started the phenomenon with Top Gun, has brought suit in a federal court in Wichita to stop such Johnny-come-latelies...
...anniversary of Woodstock arrived and waned, much like the first time around. It was mostly a convenience for the media, a way to get a handle on an upstart pop phenomenon. For music, a fan remembered, all the festival symbolized was a washout. Lysergic mud and bad amplification. The rest was a fairy tale...