Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S religion writer from 1962 to 1966. "Islam has been so frequently misunderstood," contends Elson, "partly because so many people have tried to apply terms from Christianity and Judaism to it. What we have attempted to do is give a succinct but complete picture of a phenomenon that is not merely a faith, but a way of ordering society...
...this. The President, however, did not mention the unchecked power of the Harvard Corporation--which he heads--to invest Harvard's endowment. When it comes to investment policy, the Corporation does not share its power, it hoards it. Thomas Gould, a professor of classics at Yale, observed this same phenomenon in a different context...
...Arab unity has been reestablished. That means that all foreigners must leave Palestine and return to their countries of origin. Only Palestinian Jews should stay in Palestine, as citizens of a secular state where they would live with Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Christians. Israel is a colonialist-imperialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression...
Tourism, however, is the island's biggest money spinner ($176 million, vs. $65 million from agriculture in fiscal 1977). Maui's seven major resort hotels have an occupancy rate of well over 90%, a phenomenon that actually distresses the hoteliers because they hardly have time to change the sheets between check-out and checkin. Not at all unhappy are the property developers who are dotting condominiums around the hotels on what was useless brush and mesquite land a few years ago. If Maui in the past century was ravaged by diseases brought in by outsiders, the island today...
...thing common to most of the research is the conspicuous wariness of the investigators. The utterly elusive ingredients of the mood they are examining force them to turn away from the phenomenon itself. They prefer to tabulate its incidence and parameters. So, even though they maintain their scientific detachment and method in analyzing data, to collect it they have had no convenient choice but to adopt the time-tested techniques of public opinion polling. Subjects are asked merely to declare their degree of happiness, not define it. Even Pollster Louis Harris turns up as an unlikely temporary happyologist, reporting...