Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That could drive upward the U.S. deficit in its balance of payments, which, in turn, might force the Government to lessen the pace of the recovery. Unless the U.S. summons up a high degree of self-discipline and coherent economic policy, the nation could blunder into the frustrating pattern of stop-go economics in which every boom would be choked off by the ever-present counterforces that it unwillingly-but inevitably-brings into play...
...addition, the pattern in most cities has been to close predominantly black schools with many black personnel and bus the students to white schools. This suggests to students that black institutions and personnel are inferior to white ones and, as black columnist William Raspberry writes, "essays to black children that they are somehow improved by the presence of whites." This humiliating experience, Raspberry says, suggests to black children that there is something wrong with them that only whites can cure. The humiliation causes feelings of inferiority and has negative psychological effects...
...researchers' findings are tentative. So far, few minority group members or working class men have been studied, and the data on women is limited. Vaillant believes, however, that the female life pattern is much the same as the male, except that the drive for generativity that appears in men in their late 30s or early 40s may show up a decade earlier in women...
...there to be blended with then cheaper Middle Eastern oil and shipped to the U.S. at the higher Venezuelan price. In a typical case, $6 residual oil, used to fire utility boilers, was resold at $ 17 and later soared to $23 and $24 during the embargo crisis. Another apparent pattern: passing oil through as many as half a dozen middlemen, some of them nonexistent "sham corporations "-with the price going up each time...
Enforcing the egalitarian pattern in this case would be unjust. Nozick argues, because it would prevent citizens from the free exercise of their preferences, even though they hurt no one else. In fact, enforcing any distribution pattern would involve continual interference with people's lives to prevent them from making transfers that would violate the pattern. A society which enforced equal income distribution would have to forbid people from doing things for other people for money after work. The government would have to outlaw capitalist acts between consenting adults. This restricts both what a person can do with his life...