Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real origin of this concern was the discovery in 1953 at Cambridge University by Watson and Dr. Francis Crick that the pattern of all life forms is determined by a double-helical molecule of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Since then other investigators have found ways of cutting a long nucleic-acid molecule, by chemical means, into shorter pieces that can then be recombined...
...overwhelming weight of the evidence is against Nixon, though there is no single piece of new information that could conclusively decide the case. There is much ambiguity about specific words and actions of the President. But the broad pattern of motives and strategies suggested by the mass of material leaves little doubt about the major aim of the President: to protect him self and his aides from the flood of disclosures that began immediately after the Watergate break-in on June...
...David Grove calculates that real gross national product, which dropped at an annual rate of 6.3% in the first quarter, dipped another .3% in the quarter ended last month. Otto Eckstein more optimistically figures that production rose-but by a lackluster rate of 1.6%. Whatever the exact figure, the pattern of a sharp first-quarter drop followed by little if any real growth in the second quarter will keep economists arguing for months about whether the situation can properly be called a "recession." More important, both Grove and Eckstein forecast only a modest resumption of economic expansion late this year...
...Communist Southeast Asia, men like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Indonesia's Suharto developed their talents during or soon after their countries achieved independence. All received a heavy dose of Western culture, and their concepts of national leadership were molded in the pattern of the imperial traditions by which they had been ruled. They were indoctrinated in character patterns thought necessary in the West to achieve supreme power in industrialized political democracies, although the traits, such as charisma or coolness under fire, have often degenerated into parody. Such leaders are less concerned with providing...
...study of 295 street people in the Berkeley area, Baumohl and Miller found that the majority are young (median age: 24) white males. In general, they are poorly educated (32.5% never graduated from high school; only 9.2% from college) and, contrary to the national pattern, received considerably less education than their fathers, who, for the most part, work at blue-collar and low-level white-collar occupations...