Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the FRB's interest rates generally set the pattern for the entire U.S., few bankers thought the boost would cause an immediate increase in the prime rate (now 3%) that banks have been charging on commercial loans. Actually, most bankers thought that the FRB action was to bring its rate more in line with commercial rates and to clear the way for the Treasury refunding of $8.9 billion of 1⅞% certificates...
Each day fell into a definite pattern...
...Frantically, shopkeepers shuttered up. The mob went systematically to work: attacking the headquarters of the police inspector general, breaking into liquor shops, smashing and guzzling, crashing into three munition stores to grab 300 guns. When troops and police charged, the rioters would yield and scatter, as though by a pattern, and then reform a few minutes later...
Reports trickling in from the other divisions along the frozen front followed the same general pattern. Clearly, the Army's up-forward treatment of psychiatric cases (TIME, Nov. 5, 1951) was paying big dividends...
Provost Paul Herman Buck is a great believer in consistency. But his is not a consistency limited to the narrow confines of a particular dogmatism nor capable of blanking out ideas contradictory to a chosen pattern. Quite the contrary, Buck maintains that "the surest cure for the ills of a free society is more freedom" and he has transposed this general belief to Harvard. "The only thing you really need in a University," he states, "is ideas, and an administrator's job is partly to see that a Faculty and student body capable of having ideas are selected and partly...