Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...openness is not just a media phenomenon. The Moscow City Consultation on Family and Marriage recently opened its doors, offering advice to the general public. The Family and Health Association, a voluntary organization, has applied for membership in International Planned Parenthood. Sex education, offered for the first time in just a few schools in the early 1980s, is now supposed to be part of a course on marriage and family life required in all Soviet high schools...
Some analysts detected a trend that could influence next year's regional and national elections. Said Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, head of the Allensbach public opinion institute: "This weakening of the big center parties and the strengthening of the fringes is not a short-term phenomenon. This trend will continue...
Around mid-January, every conversation in the dining hall, in the Widener stacks or on the streets would turn to theses. The phenomenon could best be called the senior version of the freshman what'syournamewhereareyoufromwhatdormareyou in dialogue. It goes along these lines...
...father always pushed me toward sports. The first thing I can remember is my father buying me a pair of boxing gloves. The Joe Louis phenomenon. It was something that was drilled into me for as long as I could remember. The basic idea was, 'Hey, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson -- they're making endorsements. They got it made.' They've all proved that if you can make it in athletics, you can make it in American society. Here was a way up and out of the degradations that black people suffered. Later, of course, I found...
...West, the issue largely seemed to resolve itself into a question of free speech. But in Iran, a vastly different phenomenon was taking shape: the Ayatullah had seized upon Rushdie's book as a flaming spear with which to halt his country's creeping trend toward moderation. Within days, the "liberals" who had seemed to be in the ascendant in Tehran dropped from sight. They had been trying to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties with the West in order to rebuild the country following its disastrous eight-year war with Iraq...