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It's a short-term phenomenon, and it does tighten the market a little, but it happens every year.

Glyn Lawcock

Online networking is a phenomenon that really has just started to reach its stride.

Ivan Misner

Hip-hop was born in New York but it's now a global phenomenon.

Valeska Hilbig

The movie shows how much of his life Capote put into 'In Cold Blood' and the toll it took on him. He made it a literary phenomenon and it was a hard act to follow. No matter what he did, he could never top it.

Ron Cooper

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.

Wilkie Collins

Because people are interconnected, we think this phenomenon we studied in elderly married couples applies more generally. We are looking at broader connections -- between parent and child, brother and sister, neighbors, and friends.

Dr. Nicholas Christakis

I will admit that the speed with which the phenomenon has spread across the country has been a little bit surprising.

Susan Robertson

It's an interesting phenomenon. I think a lot of it revolves around immigration laws.

Arsalan Iftikhar

These are good moves by the satellite providers to connect to high-growth areas. The whole business of mobile broadcast TV for instance is not just a U.S. phenomenon. It's big in Asia and Europe also.

Miles Lee

New phenomenon ... the consequences of which are hard to predict.

Mikhail Kasyanov

We have good technology and good databases. It means you can organize people quickly, easily and cheaply. It means you can ride the media phenomenon of the moment, which is what, in some ways, Cindy Sheehan has become.

Tom Matzzie

The M&A revival is truly a global phenomenon, and it's not just driven by the developed markets like the U.S.. In parts of Europe - Germany and Central and Eastern Europe - there are areas that are not so mature.

Peter Charlton

This really is a nationwide phenomenon. We found the presence of day labor in every region of the United States.

Nik Theodore

We want to help customers be more aware of where they are landing online and steer clear of this phishing phenomenon out there, which unfortunately continues to grow.

Justin Osmer

We have not seen a new phenomenon hit the licensed apparel market like this before.

Neil Schwartz

I think it is a real phenomenon, and it's because of the new chief.

Richard Lazarus

Such a phenomenon is abnormal.

Luo Bingsheng

The dollar could fall sharply, though that may be only a temporary phenomenon.

Junya Tanase

It is worth looking at the current requirements and asking ourselves, in light of the experience with Hurricane Katrina, with an entire health-care system going down: Are there better protections that could be put in place for that kind of phenomenon?

Thomas Hamilton

I think it's really a disturbing phenomenon to see that our military personnel would be engaging in such inappropriate behavior, behavior that brings dishonor to the military.

Ibrahim Hooper

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.

Richard Holloway

My hopes are that the naming of this post office facility is only the first of many tributes for a man who started from nowhere to end up a national treasure and global phenomenon.

Diane Watson

The curve inversion is just a temporary phenomenon. It cannot last as the Fed raises rates.

Yasutoshi Nagai

With so few long free- flowing rivers left, we are on the brink of losing another natural phenomenon without fully understanding the costs of these losses before it?s too late.

Ute Collier

Even though the [economic] growth has been okay in the last few years, there's a concern that this growth is not generating enough employment. This is a phenomenon across the developed world, and also [the] developing world and in Asia too.

Shamika Sirimanne

It's a growing phenomenon, I'll tell you that.

Linda Viola

This is a phenomenon that is taking over, and potentially e-mail can become the number one means of business communication.

Tim White

I think there is a greater level of awareness and recognition of these athletes further out from the games than we've seen in the past. I think that phenomenon really began before Salt Lake City.

Darryl Seibel

For business, English and Chinese are obviously the most important languages now. This is a phenomenon that reflects the change of the times.

Noriyuki Suzuki

The issue is durability, ... As an economist, all my instincts tell me just as the dot.com bubble had to burst, the small-market, new-stadium phenomenon had to burst.

Roger Noll

I view that as a one-time phenomenon, but it sure is nice to have a one-time phenomenon that has cash coming in the door.

Bill Dezellem

It's a fairly new phenomenon.

Todd Berry

Needs to keep on top of the handheld and smart phone phenomenon because we clearly don't know where it's going yet.

Ken Dulaney

This phenomenon is going on right over people's heads and they're unaware it is happening.

Mike Street

That is really reflective of the globalization phenomenon.

Lisa Dominisse

I just think it's a natural phenomenon taking Jerry's career to its natural end. He did it gracefully and honestly and ended on his own terms. I just think he handled his career beautifully.

Bill Walsh

Specialization is a major phenomenon all over the country, and it can and does start with kids as young as 7 or 8.

Rick Wolff

It was never portrayed from day one that this would be an overnight phenomenon.

Gary Hines

This is not a women's phenomenon. Clearly these businesses have a huge amount of potential to impact our economy. You ignore this market at your peril.

Sharon Hadary

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Thomas Wolfe

It is a phenomenon due to high volume as well as rapid changes.

Dr. Robert Wood

It's the most explosive, intense rock phenomenon ever seen. I am in awe every night, ... (Grohl) has such endless energy and intensity night after night screaming his lungs out. I don't see how he does it.

Rivers Cuomo

It's really great to see that we're not just an Indianapolis phenomenon. To play shows all over the place and have people get into it, we feel like a lot more is coming.

David Hazel

This is a relatively new phenomenon. We will continue our inquiries.

Kevin Bloom

The import of crab meat is a real phenomenon that's growing and has a tremendous impact that's going to happen for a long time for this industry.

Doug Lipton

It's a phenomenon that's tied to growth . . . Palm Bay, with 97,000 people, is the most populated city in Brevard, so we're a popular area for these facilities.

Chris Norton

Self sufficiency is an extremely unusual phenomenon nowadays.

Sergio Gabrielli

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

Heinrich Heine

We expect the dumping phenomenon to perhaps double over the new year period.

Xia Jun

The early adopters are in, ... We'll have to wait to see what it takes to make (digital downloads) a broader mass-market phenomenon.

Geoff Mayfield

What a searching preacher of self-command is the varying phenomenon of health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He's kind of a phenomenon.

Dominic Wren

The impact of beauty in high school on future criminal activity suggests that girls in high school are more influenced by this phenomenon.

Naci Mocan

People who suffer from migraine with aura can sometimes experience a phenomenon called the .

Alice In Wonderland

It's an entirely new phenomenon for healthy companies to freeze their pensions.

Alicia Munnell

The Internet certainly facilitated recruiting becoming something of a national phenomenon.

Bobby Burton

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Jan Morris

This phenomenon is a celestial sign, a message for our people and our time.

Holy Synod

Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon.

Dr. Julie Gerberding

This may just be a South Florida phenomenon.

Tom Moore

There certainly is a real phenomenon of copycats.

Craig Anderson

This is an American phenomenon. It's not going to go away.

Quinn Spitzer

Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.

Bob Gaudio

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

Craig Fugate

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

Hosni Mubarak

This is a big entertainment property that we've created. I honestly believe this has the potential to be the next mass-market phenomenon.

Shane Kim

It's a unique phenomenon because hurricanes don't normally form at that latitude and with those temperatures.

Angel Rivera

The long-distance thing is boosting the whole sector. It's a group-wide phenomenon.

Richard Klugman

This isn't a new phenomenon, it's a pretty consistent phenomenon.

Cary Funk

By focusing on (this) wondrous phenomenon ...the (state) forest department may delude itself into believing that these deaths are insignificantly low.

Ashish Fernandes

The last time there was a season with two Category 5 hurricanes in the same basin was in 1961 with Carla and Hattie. However, the same phenomenon occurred the year before in 1960 with Donna and Ethel.

Nick Shay

This is a fascinating phenomenon that evolved through the unexpected use of technology. It classically illustrates the way people find their own uses for technology.

Cory Doctorow

The mini-me phenomenon is, you know, I dress a certain way, my kid is sort of an extension of me and you know, our tastes are the same or I want the kid to dress as I dress.

Kelly Wallace

This is a phenomenon we're really seeing with your generation. It's a huge shift.

Carol Evans

It's absolutely a real phenomenon. There are a lot of reasons why it's happening.

Peter Francese

For some people, it's a mecca, an annual mecca to see the eagles. It's a phenomenon.

Marybeth Garrigan

It's a late summer phenomenon, ... It walked right out of the textbook.

Dr. William Schaffner

The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.

Claude Levi strauss

This year's race showed that money, and lots of money, really matters. It was an unprecedented phenomenon that we will probably not see again.

Adolfo Carrión Jr

Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

Avery Brundage

We are not saying TV is to blame for this phenomenon. But research is indicating that TV has an impact.

Dale Kunkel

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

Jack Fultz

You can't love a crowd the same way you can love a person. And a crowd can't love you the way a single person can love you. Intimacy doesn't scale. Not really. Intimacy is a one-on-one phenomenon.

Hugh Macleod

The international community should interfere here. Not only to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority, but also to pressure the Israelis to stop this kind of phenomenon.

Bassem Eid

Jewish music has come an extremely long way since Bob Zimmerman changed his name to Dylan. Now you have Madonna adopting Jewish culture and making it pop, showing the Hebrew aleph on a backdrop in her concerts. It's an interesting phenomenon, and the festival is a bit of a manifestation that Jewish music is becoming a genre of sorts.

Michael Dorf

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Shirley Hazzard

Yes, we may hit the 'good enough' phenomenon where the race is going to change.

Henri Richard

Lucas is so special and unusual -- and so rarely around -- that it is a different kind of phenomenon, more of a brand concept. He insists on a certain kind of success.

Dave Davis

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

Laurence Fishburne

It's a very Spanish phenomenon. Foreign players are bemused when we ask them to do an interview at half-past midnight.

Jesus Gallego

It's a cultural phenomenon that we're facing.

Bob Meyer

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

If we don't end this phenomenon, how can we look the families of the dead people in the eye?

Leonid Kuchma

It's a sampling phenomenon, rather than an accurate number.

Sean Snaith

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

Richard John Neuhaus

We went through hundreds of thousands of galaxies to find a 1-in-1,000 phenomenon.

Adam Bolton

It's a natural evolution, a genuine publishing phenomenon and publishers are building projects around it.

Stephen Fraser

Investigate this troubling phenomenon and do whatever is necessary to bring it to an end.

Arsalan Iftikhar

To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Sir William Osler

It's a phenomenon, and it has really taken hold in the industry, ... It really brings people into some of the smaller areas, the rural areas that are not like first-tier destinations.

Cathy Keefe

And this is true across the country. This is not a Denver phenomenon. Denver got its proportional share.

Brad Neiman

Handbags are definitely a 'trading up' category. Coach has driven to $1.4 billion in revenues and a market value above $10 billion based on the phenomenon.

Michael Silverstein

Land use regulation does more to explain changes in prices across the country than any other phenomenon.

Richard Greenberg

A phenomenon has happened. We've tapped into the trucker network.

Steve Bonney

It's been a word-of-mouth phenomenon that none of us have really seen in music. I'm not sure there's anything we can compare it to. It's completely unprecedented.

Laurence Bell

There's definitely evidence of strange phenomenon in the world. These are well documented.

Leslie Kean

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

I think it was a media-generated phenomenon. You guys blew that out of proportion.

Bob Littlefield

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?

Bette Midler

It's a cultural phenomenon. So, saying it's a cartoon doesn't dismiss it, doesn't denigrate it, it even makes it more powerful. Because why? Now it's getting into the unconscious or the subconscious and the minds of our children.

Michael Dyson

The trend of shifting to digital cameras is a common phenomenon in the world camera market although the trend is led by Japan.

Kouichi Fujimoto

A lot of people are calling. A lot of people are booking. And that's what a weather phenomenon like this does. It has an effect of getting people interested early in skiing, and second and most importantly, ... it gives people a level of certainty about their ski vacation, whether it's in November all the way through March.

Mike Smedley

It's an Intel European, double-ordering, higher oil prices, weaker euro phenomenon.

Howard Ward

Just look at the Paris Hilton phenomenon and the way every other teenager looks like a prostitute.

Tom Ford

Now, to get back to the question about outsourcing, I think outsourcing is a growing phenomenon, but it's something that we should realize is probably a plus for the economy in the long run.

Gregory Mankiw

We think the Scion is a phenomenon unto itself.

George Magliano

This (IPO) represents a test for the sector. We've been disappointed with results - and this isn't an Italian phenomenon, but a European one.

Patrizio Pazzaglia

Body modification is a phenomenon that spans generations. We are looking at these issues through a cross-generational lens and we expect to have a large cross-generational audience. It is clear that people of all ages have a lot to teach--and learn from--one another.

Helene Moglen

This is a consumer phenomenon and people will care about what it has to offer them. We are not the market going from here on out.

Marc Andreessen

You've got to be careful when you look at the sun at anytime. Today is no different. The solar eclipse itself doesn't generate anymore unusual a phenomenon.

Paul Delany

What people don't understand is when punk started it was so innocent and not aware of being looked at or being a phenomenon and that's what everyone gets wrong. You can't consciously create something that's important, it's a combination of chemistry, conditions, the environment, everything.

Siouxsie Sioux

We've never had Hispanic day laborer sites. That's a totally new phenomenon.

David Ware

There is no major disruption of people's lives for the time being, and so there is no great risk to the economy for now. But if the discontent became a national phenomenon, then consumer confidence could suffer.

Nicolas Sobczak

This 'eavesdropping' isn't a Bush administration phenomenon.

Nolanda Hill

If we lose the whole migration, we lose one of the nation's most magnificent phenomenon.

Chip Taylor

It's a new phenomenon. It's just emerging. We're very concerned. We know it's happening, but we're really not sure why it's happening or where this is going.

Clifford Mcdonald

Every case must be evaluated on its merits but the phenomenon of unjustifiable police homicides is something that is recurring at an alarming level.

Brian Dunn

The embrace of plot has allowed something like the Oprah book club phenomenon to emerge.

Scott Turow

I would say that there is pressure against NGOs in Russia, in Central Asia, in China and worldwide. In fact, this is a growing phenomenon.

Barry Lowenkron

It's just an interesting phenomenon that people are groping with today in terms of the fact news media never sleep.

Rob Baskin

The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business...we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share.

Antonio Perez

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Giorgio De Chirico

They are more likely to do things online than they would in the real world. It's the 'You can't see me, I can't see you phenomenon.' There's a perception of invisibility.

Nancy Willard

The frenzy this year seems to be heightened to a level that may make their decision-making more of a last-minute phenomenon.

Lee Stetson

I thought, Frank's career must be going really well. Then someone said, 'No, it's for the Beatles. They're a phenomenon.' That's when we knew they were a big deal.

Charlie Brill

The broad phenomenon is that states have to grapple with the issue of immigration because of failure on behalf of the federal government. The state and localities end up holding the bag.

Mark Krikorian

These huge settlements are a new phenomenon for the SEC, ... I don't know how else you would handle it.

Bruce Carton

It's been an unbelievable amount of traffic. It's a phenomenon of our culture, I think.

Rachel Bolton

Internet gambling has become a substantial phenomenon in the gaming industry space.

Anthony Cabot

The cities with the hottest real estate markets and (air rights) will be the places where the phenomenon sticks out the most.

Richard Peiser

I think it is a real phenomenon, and it's because of the new chief. As the court begins to define itself anew, there is a real effort by all of them to build a new court. And it has brought them together.

Richard Lazarus

This is a spreading phenomenon. By that, I mean that one county or Extension unit creates this position and then neighboring communities see it and how it can help and decide that they want it too.

Dick Warner

This is a publishing phenomenon.

Ethan Friedman

I think this is a phenomenon that is really still peaking.

Erik Whiteford

This is a phenomenon we have observed over recent weeks in particular, and it is growing. There have been some delays (of food shipments) and it is felt by the people.

Eric Falt

Then there is the chastity-belt phenomenon, where her love handles have been his excuse for their dismal love life , or he fears that if she loses the weight, he won't be good enough for her anymore.

Edward Abramson

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

Zoltan Kodaly