Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hancock project. The architect group urged that the Boston Board of Appeals deny Hancock's petition for zoning variance until the insurance firm could come up with a "modified" plan better suited for the character of Copley Square. The BSA feared that the building would interrupt the serene pattern of the neighboring Trinity Church and the Florentine Boston Public Library...
...arguments presented to the Committee, the student accused McKinsey and Company of a pattern of discrimination against women in Germany. The student claimed that no woman has ever been employed as a consultant in McKinsey and company's offices in Germany. She also stated that the company interviewer told her that German executives do not like working with women and that "Dusseldorf was out of the question...
...pattern is beginning to look familiar to Harvard crew fans. The Crimson's relatively light boat requires precise rowing at the start; against MIT and Princeton, Harvard caught a couple of crabs off the line, scaring everyone in the boat. No one wanted that to happen again...
...anxious state of walking about. You cannot start until you know what you want to do, and you do not know what you want to do until you start. That is catch-23. Panic breaks that circle. Finally a certain force in the accumulated material begins to form a pattern. Most people think that you build a skeleton and then you know whether you are going to write a dog, a giraffe or whatever. What happens, in fact, is that you do a perfect little finger, and then you do four others, and then you write a wrist. You begin...
...Indianapolis, a six-month investigative effort by a team of Star reporters turned up a pattern of police corruption connected with prostitution, narcotics and stolen goods. The newspaper series caused Mayor Richard Lugar to fire the city's three top law-enforcement officials and bring in a former Secret Service officer to clean...