In a letter to "the Princeton community" last week, the university president, Shirley M. Tilghman, described the process for reviewing faculty appointments, but said the content of Dr. Calvo's review could not be disclosed without "an unprecedented breach" of confidentiality.
This was a once-in-100-year shock: in my view, without such unprecedented intervention, unemployment rates in the US and Europe could well have risen to over 24% – which is where they are already in Greece and Spain.
A report from the Carnegie Corporation predicted that without an unprecedented increase in educational supports for high school youth, the implementation of "college and career ready" tests as diploma requirements would cause the national high school graduation rate to plummet from more than 75percenttothethe low 50percentt range.
It's hard to see how Trump's victory could've happened without the unprecedented free media he received – nearly $3 billion through April, according to one estimate.
But it is hard to imagine that Ronald Reagan would have stepped back from the nuclear precipice without the unprecedented gathering in Central Park on June 12 , 1982of ordinary people -- who, when it came to avoiding the apocalypse, were way ahead of the politicians.
Facebook claims they are just "connecting people", but social media is actually viewed as a main source of news by 44% of Americans, and the full picture is much more complicated: In August 2016, I wrote here that Trump, and a variety of other reactionist phenomena could not have happened without the unprecedented powers of the Hate-Distribution-Machine known as social media.
Tippy Irwin, executive director of the Ombudsman Services of San Mateo, said this trend of ousting elderly residents without warning was "unprecedented".
"This kind of fire spread is unprecedented without wind," said Stanton Florea, a spokesman for the Angeles National Forest.
How is it possible for almost a quarter of our reef to die without it triggering unprecedented, national concern and debate?
"This kind of fire spread is unprecedented without wind," said Stanton Florea, a spokesman for the Angeles National Forest, where the fire began and was still burning.
