Word: pattern
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Rodino's aim has been to lay out all of the major allegations of presidential misconduct to determine whether there is an overall pattern of impeachable activity. "Is there a relationship among these things?" Rodino asks, meaning such matters as the Watergate coverup, the ITT and milk deals, the underpayment of taxes by Nixon, the Ellsberg burglary and other "plumber" activities, the secret bombing and the spurning of subpoenas. "Is there a connection between him and them?" The question, Rodino suggests, is "whether there was a serious abuse of power, a failure to faithfully execute the laws, scandal...
Pinneo could readily pick out specific commands. But, like fingerprints, the patterns varied sufficiently from one human test subject to another to fool the computer. Pinneo found a way to deal with this problem by storing a large variety of patterns in the computer's memory. When the computer had to deal with a fresh pattern, it could search its memory for the brain waves most like it. So far the S.R.I, computer has been taught to recognize seven different commands-up, down, left, right, slow, fast and stop. Working with a total of 25 different people, it makes...
...they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are actually part of a global climatic upheaval. However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another...
That so peaceful a union should suddenly turn militant underscores the ominous strains that inflation is setting up in labor-management relations after a long period of worker docility. The strikers, who include cloth cutters, buttonhole makers, sewing-machine operators, pattern makers and tailors, now earn an average of $3.60 an hour, or roughly $135 a week. They are demanding an increase of $1.10 an hour, or a startling 30%, over three years-50? the first year, and 30? for each of the next two. On top of that, the Amalgamated demands an escalator clause that would raise wages further...
Sometime in the spring of his sophomore year, he noticed a pattern had developed. It was no longer just the occasional B+ or the floater that he got stuck with. Of course, he did not get along well with his senior tutor; ever since he moved in, the tutor had gone out of his way to have an influence over his life. That was what Harvard was all about--who could wield the most amount of influence over others. And students had few opportunities to control professors or administrators. The system was just unfair...