Phenomenon
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This narrative’s most extreme form is the idea of “Eurabia,” an incendiary term that purportedly describes a
phenomenon
by which Muslim hordes are now contaminating Europe’s very DNA.
In fact, barring the worst-case scenario under Trump, it is possible that the slowdown in global trade in recent years will turn out to be a temporary
phenomenon.
The
phenomenon
took many forms, including the Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928.
Moreover, it had brought about new rigidities, notably bureaucratization and that deadly
phenomenon
of the 1970's, stagflation - economic stagnation and high unemployment coupled with galloping inflation.
In his recent book The New Urban Crisis, the University of Toronto’s Richard Florida decries this phenomenon, comparing opponents of housing construction to the early-nineteenth-century Luddites, who smashed the mechanical looms that were taking their weaving jobs.
But perhaps the quintessential example of this
phenomenon
was the origin in the early 1970s of recombinant DNA technology (also known as “genetic modification,” or “GM”), the prototypic technique of modern genetic engineering, which resulted from synergy among several esoteric, largely unrelated areas of basic research.
At its core, Brexit reflects a pervasive
phenomenon
in the high-income world: rising support for populist parties campaigning for a clampdown on immigration.
When Fighting Fake News Aids CensorshipWASHINGTON, DC – Many media analysts have rightly identified the dangers posed by “fake news,” but often overlook what the
phenomenon
means for journalists themselves.
It took 46 years from the discovery of superconductivity to the 1957 Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer (BCS) theory of how the
phenomenon
occurs.
Yet, according to Darwin’s tree of life concept, this
phenomenon
would be impossible.
The only real nationwide winner, the Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle, or M5S) led by comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, is a political
phenomenon
with no precedent in modern European electoral history.
I coulda been somebody...”Of course, dreaming of success could not have been widespread – a national
phenomenon
– had working Americans not had an economy that gave participants the freedom to be enterprising: to try new ways and conceive new things.
Obviously, Western intervention in the Middle East is not a new
phenomenon.
This
phenomenon
constitutes a new kind of economic organization and changes the dynamics of how and where people earn their money.
The story starts with yet another recent phenomenon: an increase in corporate transparency, whether companies want it or not.
Insidr.com is now trying to make this
phenomenon
into a business.
The apparent paradox is resolved by noting that rapid productivity growth in the pockets of innovation has been undone by workers moving from the more productive to the less productive parts of the economy – a
phenomenon
that my co-authors and I have called “growth-reducing structural change.”
This is a rather new
phenomenon.
As his campaign, once regarded with derision, continues to rack up successes – most recently, in the Michigan and Mississippi primaries and the Hawaii caucus – pundits are scrambling for some historical or foreign analogue that can shed light on the
phenomenon.
This troubling trend does not seem to be a fleeting phenomenon, but a sign of fundamental changes in international geopolitics.
This divergence is as much a political
phenomenon
as it is an economic and financial one.
In most, if not all, of these cases, we see examples of a broader phenomenon: what might be called governing by inertia – a “can't, won't, and shouldn't" mentality, to paraphrase the economist Mark Blyth, that blocks effective policymaking.
The emergence of such leaders is a relatively new phenomenon, one that is reshaping politics across the West.
Because the Arabs had no corresponding historical model from which to learn how to relate to the
phenomenon
that had overtaken them, they tried to interpret Zionism as colonialism, and thought that other nations’ fight against colonialism provided a model for resistance.
Testing MedicineMost people are surprised to learn that rigorous application of formal rules of evidence to evaluate medical research and decide on the best treatments is a recent
phenomenon.
Systematic reviews have demonstrated the same
phenomenon
in outpatient dialysis facilities – lower death rates in not-for-profit facilities – and have also shown higher quality care in not-for-profit nursing homes.
China’s experience illustrates this
phenomenon
perfectly.
China continues to experience rapid urbanization – a
phenomenon
that contributed substantially to past poverty reduction, but that also places a growing number of urban dwellers at risk of destitution.
In New York this week, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has convened a summit of world leaders to address this global phenomenon, which urgently requires collective intervention.
Many fear that this is a global
phenomenon
with similar causes everywhere, a key claim in Thomas Piketty’s celebrated book Capital in Twenty-First Century.
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