Ray Kroc, for instance, didn't invent the fast-food phenomenon back in the 1950s.

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According to a market phenomenon that dates back to the administration of Woodrow Wilson in 1914, the time to invest is now in order to take advantage of the midterm election-cycle effect.

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Ms Werning therefore decided to trace the phenomenon of rapid growth back as far as she could in the fossil record, by examining the bones of a wide variety of species.

ECONOMIST: Or, rather, the dinosaur and the crocodile

Though the flurry of attention around MOOCs may lead one to conclude that distance learning is a recent phenomenon, it actually dates back over 120 years.

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But "Rize" -- the title derives from the "rise up" phrase in Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech -- goes back to the phenomenon's roots, and shows what drives the dancers to dance as they do.

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Back-to-school shopping is a phenomenon that I experience both professionally and personally each year.

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The phenomenon of Haitian migration in small boats and rafts dates back at least 35 years, according to a Congressional Research Service report.

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