Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They do not grant that it is the pattern of Oriental psychology to respect and follow aggressive, resolute and dynamic leadership-to quickly turn from a leadership characterized by timidity or vacillation . . . Nothing in the last five years has so inspired the Far East as the American determination to preserve the bulwarks of our Pacific Ocean strategic position from future encroachment...
...Retch Building along with the Antronomy Building have disappeared before the wreckers. While the Graduate center has been completed and integrated into the over-all pattern of the Law School, by moving trees and redirecting paths. At Radcliffe the Yard was dug up to lay water pipes for Agassiz Hall water fountains...
...controls, started putting them into effect last week. By boosting the discount rate in the New York area from 1½% to 1¾%, the FRB, in effect, raised interest rates on commercial loans, thus made it harder to borrow money. Since the New York rate usually sets the pattern for the country, bankers expected a general rate rise soon...
...their terms the orders showed the pattern which Ordnance will follow. No prices were fixed. After the companies get into production and establish actual manufacturing costs, final contracts specifying prices will be drawn. Colonel David Crawford, commander of the tank arsenal, guessed that on an order for 1,000 vehicles, for example, the price would be fixed at about the 300th vehicle...
...Ordnance Department has also established a new pattern of industrial mobilization. It has divided the U.S. into five areas, each designed to develop its own independent tank production system in case of all-out mobilization. Such decentralization, the department believes, will not only have strategic advantages, but will distribute the economic load of mobilization evenly throughout the country, and help prevent large-scale migration of skilled labor to a few industrial centers...