Word: phenomena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great unexplained sociological phenomena of industrial and, yes, even post-industrial American society is the overwhelming importance of professional athletic competition to the mechanics of daily societal interaction. While many would dismiss such a concern as outside the bounds of traditional and rigorous inquiry I feel that it is precisely for that reason that an investigation of this phenomenon is vital...
...have declared our readiness to remove apartheid, to share power up to the highest level of government. We did not undertake these changes to please the outside world. We undertook these reform measures because we believed that we must extend democracy. It is one of the most tragic phenomena of history. At a time when this government is extending democracy and can demonstrate that we took steps in one year that the U.S. could not take in 20 years, not only do we get no credit for it, not only do you Americans have no perspective of history...
Safman said the bubble-blowing process would also have applications for materials other than metals. She said creating hollows in structures in the microgravity of space could enhance man's understanding of many scientific phenomena, including sound barriers and convection currents...
...least a trillion "dull blocks of ice," ranging from a few inches to a few miles in diameter. Out in that velvet blackness of space, where temperatures approach absolute zero, the snowballs remain unchanged, well beyond the effects of solar radiation, meteorite impacts, volcanic activity, atmosphere and other phenomena that have gradually changed the inner members of the solar system. Every once in a while, however, a passing star gives the cloud a gravitational jiggle, releasing hundreds of these fragments. Most of them are sent outward into interstellar space, but some are hurled toward the sun as comets. Although...
...PHENOMENA of hypnosis, reincarnation, and psychic possession nearly always met with skepticism...