Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that I won't color my views to fit anybody's pattern...
Other experts disagreed. "I don't think any taxpayer could have gotten the deductions from the facts as they [the committee] found them," said Tax Lawyer Michael Fox of Chicago. New York Accounting Professor Abe Briloff found the pattern of errors in Nixon's returns "so egregious" that he believes that "they were not mere inadvertences but a carefully orchestrated, finely tuned program." San Francisco Attorney William Coblenz, who counts the Hearst family among his clients, believes that "the joint tax committee was, if anything, a little easy on President Nixon. Everyone looks for every reasonable deduction and there...
...OTHER aspects of the picture fit just as comfortably into this tension-releasing pattern. Michael York's D'Artagnan would be romantic and gallant in a normal film like this, but here he never gets a chance to set his chin and gaze into the horizon because the comedy keeps him too busy being wide-eyed and gulpy. The wonderful period sets, costumes and scenery (filmed in Spain, with horses and falconry and royal picnics galore) might have seemed heavy and historically meticulous except that there's always something faintly ridiculous going on, which never distracts because the plot keeps...
...agency's motive is to make ticket prices reflect operating costs more closely. At present, the carriers subsidize short hops by taking a smaller profit on them than they do on long flights. That pattern emerged in the late 1950s when the industry shifted from propeller-driven planes to jets, which operate much more efficiently over long distances. Even before the advent of jets, first-class passengers enjoyed extra leg room and fancier treatment literally at the expense of coach passengers, whose fares in effect subsidized the money-losing luxury service...
...existential dimension provides a defense against the culture's adversaries and propagates self-security within the culture. The functional and existential components of black culture are based on the historical experience of blacks, but the latter emphasizes the black ritual tradition. The ritual tradition of blacks is the inherited pattern of symbolic response to various societal phenomena...