Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Children are not needed to till the land. Parents need not produce a dozen children in the hope that a few will survive to maturity. Modernization also prolongs schooling and postpones the time at which women marry and begin having families, thus shortening their child-bearing years. By this pattern, according to the much discussed theory of "demographic transition," societies in the process of becoming industrialized will move from high birth and death rates to a new equilibrium of low birth and death rates...
...possible link between the pattern of crimes and the rising standard of living in the Soviet Union has not been overlooked. Writing in Komsomolskaya Pravda (Young Communist), Political Scientist Vladimir Kudryavtsev noted that "one occasionally hears that once a society has achieved affluence, crimes for gain disappear. However, as Aristotle observed, greed can also be engendered by prosperity. When examining the motives of crime for gain, we cannot automatically attribute them exclusively to relics of the past. Today, a number of 'accretions of the present,' so to speak, are to be observed...
...politically active women have sprung up in working-class communities across the country. The groups have formed around disparate issues, ranging from the racially-charged anti-busing movement to demands for adequate day-care facilities. But they all share one element in common--they have ruptured the time-honored pattern of female deference to authority and to circumstance...
Until Watergate, on the other hand, liberals half believed that Nixon's new incarnations meant a pattern of growth. They disliked him, but they also tried to perceive over the years a man successively shucking off his earlier gut-fighting instinct, his narrow antiCommunism, becoming more
...seem anxious to look into the Chappaquiddick experience of Senator Edward Kennedy. I think that the only people who reflec ed seriously on the Watergate affair were those few Republicans on the Judiciary Committee who first shifted and voted against Nixon. They were beginning to see a pattern of lawlessness that both ered them down to their moral marrow. I am not sure that message got across to most Americans...