Word: phenomenon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amity was stretched too far last year, when Saudi Arabia's Ambassador recited from the Qur'an. Hatfield complains that the breakfast has become a status symbol and "a ceremony of civil religion." He has introduced a Senate motion to abolish the affair. Many foreign observers find the whole phenomenon of Potomac piety somewhat disconcerting. "It is incomprehensible to most Europeans," sniffs a British diplomat. "It's almost as bad as Freemasonry...
...council's actions in 1989, however, will tell whether the increased political activity was merely a one-semester phenomenon, or a longer-lasting change of heart toward activism to be reflected by the student government's agenda...
Harvard's Samuel Huntington confirms this Soviet intuition in the current Foreign Affairs. The real cause of the decline of nations, he argues, is not the now fashionable notion of "imperial overstretch" but the phenomenon of creeping inflexibility, what might be called industrial sclerosis -- precisely the loss of that ability to change and adapt...
Supernovae, in which Kirshner has specialized since his graduate school years at the California Institute of Technology, are stars which have ended their lives as energy producing bodies with a tremendous explosion. If the phenomenon occurs close enough to the Earth, it is observable in the sky as a bright star, Kirshner says...
...time since 1604 that Earth dwellers witnessed an actual explosion close enough to the Earth to be seen with the naked eye, Kirshner said, thus making the event the first young supernova to be carefully analyzed with modern scientific equipment. Astronomers, including Kirshner, are still collecting data from the phenomenon, called 1987A...