Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oceanwise, acording to Petterson, the Earth may be following the evolutionary pattern of Mars and Venus. Venus is still in a pre-oceanic stage, while Mark is a desert plant. "Our present oceanic splendor," he said, "may be a transient stage and the Earth may be on its way towards a complete dessication...
...this tangle, surrounded by polemic and emotion, three crucial questions take form: first, why is the stabilization machinery necessary anyway; second, is the pattern taken by the steel dispute proceedings--deadlock and seizure--inevitable under the present controls setup; and third, why have the stabilizers been unable to stabilize anything...
This is all very well, you say, but a system that produces nothing but deadlocks and seizures is not desirable, even if it does provide settlements without messing up the flow of goods. If the deadlock-seizure pattern were inherent in the present controls procedure, this would be a worthy objection, but indications are that personal bungling was responsible for the outcome of the steel case...
...return followed the classic pattern of Latin American "revolutions." Every traditional element was present: a bold, shrewd Strong Man, a hard core of army malcontents, a weak government. Similar combinations have brought armymen to power in many other Latin countries (see box). In this case, it remained only for Batista & friends to write in the characteristically Cuban touches...
...Along with its two smaller sister communions, it has denounced Christmas celebrations as "heathen rites" and castigated South Africans, especially women, for smoking and drinking. At its last synod the church elders condemned Freemasonry, the equality of the sexes and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights (as defying the "pattern of inequality" which God created...