1.   Although the Web is worldwide in name, it remains mostly an American phenomenon.

2.   And at least for the time being it is still an American phenomenon exported to Europe.

3.   And he kept a running list of legends and other uniquely American phenomena, such as soap operas, Marilyn Monroe, ambulance chasers, Wyatt Earp.

4.   And house churches are not solely an American phenomenon.

5.   Belief in UFOs is worldwide, but Roswell is a purely American phenomenon, Bird said.

6.   But that was before cruisers became an American phenomenon.

7.   Child prostitution is a home-grown American phenomenon, not just a foreign one, according to a national survey of Juvenile Court judges.

8.   He is a larger-than-life American phenomenon, as singular an artist as Orson Welles, to whom he is often compared.

9.   Hingis and her mother have pooh-poohed the notion of tennis burnout as a peculiarly American phenomenon that does not apply to their particular phenom.

10.   In recent years, this scramble to remember, long a Jewish cultural phenomenon, has become an American cultural phenomenon.