Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before him there echoed strident Syrian cries: "We are positive neutralists! We are at the outer edge of that policy-do not force us to go beyond it!" Behind him sounded presidential words of caution. "The pattern that is seemingly emerging is an old one for the Soviets." said Dwight Eisenhower at his weekly press conference: "to offer economic and military aid ... to find stooges that will do their will, and finally, to take over the country. Now, in Syria, how far this pattern has gone we don't know...
...other hand, have exploited the U.S. desire for peace and its fear of all-out atomic war by playing with considerable skill their "strategy of ambiguity," i.e., by alternating belligerence with "peaceful coexistence," open repression (Hungary) with subtle infiltration (the Mideast). "What is striking [is] that essentially the same pattern of Soviet behavior should time and again raise discussion about its 'sincerity' or its 'novelty,' " says Kissinger. "Nothing could be more irrelevant." Steadfast Communist doctrine uses war and peace as varying opportunistic means to the same distant goal: domination of the entire world...
From this Blough concluded: "No one company, no one industry, no one union can alone stop the march of inflation. Neither the steel industry or any other industry ever sets the wage pattern in America, for the postwar wage pattern has been a never-ending spiral in which each industry, in its turn, is called on to pay a little more than the preceding industry did, and the next industry must then pay a little more than that...
...that this play is a piece of propaganda. It is not a pitting of black against white in which white finally triumphs. It is a complex study of grays. Almost every character undergoes a change of religious attitude during the play, but at the end we still see a pattern of grays. And this is as it should...
...First National: "Confidence in the fall outlook remains firm, despite the low visibility and the lack of any clearly discernible trend in production." Many forecasters were taking an optimistic view of the second half, said Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank, because of the economy's natural pattern of growth and several specific expectations. Among them: an auto upsurge when 1958 models come out, a rise in residential construction, a retail-sales boost as rising personal income sparks a gain in consumer spending, a rebuilding of stocks following inventory adjustment...