Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burning in the old Franklin fireplace on the first floor of his half-house on Farwell Place. Fisher says he emerged from "narrow scrapes" with marriage in his middle years, and is much more secure in his solitary situation today. "The conventional pressure to follow a particular family pattern was ever so much stronger 25 years ago," he says...
...years ago with the help of a lot of money from Kay Graham of The Washington Post, and an editorial staff garnered from New York Magazine. Its first issue's cover girl was Wonder Woman, and she embodied the rising hopes for the new venture. Contrary to the usual pattern of American business, however, a dozen imitation "feminist" magazines have not sprung up in its wake. So Ms. is left being the sole mass-media spokeswoman for the woman's movement--a difficult position, to say the least. As Wonder Woman's face fades, Ms. settles into the fairly dull...
Italy has the dubious distinction of suffering more thefts than any other nation. Clearly the pattern has changed, having moved from the spontaneous to the corporate. Rodolfo Siviero, the government's chief investigator of art theft, roundly states that "it's an international traffic conducted by a number of big-time receivers abroad." These 50 or so men, he believes, are not art dealers but organizers of what amounts to theft-for-investment. They commission thefts, receive the goods, wait for them to cool (for years, if need be) and then discreetly launder them through a network...
Rogers got into the investment business ten years ago, he explains, partly to protect himself against show-business management sharks and partly to keep out of Hollywood's unemployment office. His first venture was the purchase of an office building in foreclosure, and he still follows the pattern of seeking out money-losing buildings and putting them back in the black. A few of his clients have also been salvage cases. Says Caan: "Wayne stepped in and pulled me up by the bootstraps...
Cornell proved unable to guard its two goal edge for long as Harvard raffied in the last five minutes of the period to even the score. Randy Roth garnered Harvard's first on a perfect power play pattern, using Jim Thomas and Ed Rossi on the points...