Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they won an election in Southern California-but only narrowly and in part because their candidate dissociated himself from Richard Nixon. On the same day, the party lost a psychologically important congressional race in staunchly Republican Cincinnati. Warns G.O.P. Congressman William F. Scherle of Iowa: "If this is a pattern, then there aren't many Republicans who can survive." Adds a prominent Midwestern Republican Governor: "There's light at the end of the tunnel-it's a freight train heading right...
...rest of the country, traffic is up less dramatically-a pattern that seems to reflect the geographically uneven bite of the gasoline shortage. Amtrak cars are still rolling across the Midwest and Far West nearly empty, while station managers in the Northeast have had to rent cars from local commuter railroads to help handle the crush. Amtrak's losses swelled to $158 million last year, $11 million more than in 1972, despite a 24% gain in revenues, to $202 million. Congress is picking up nearly all of the tab through a $154 million subsidy, and Amtrak officials are expected...
...pattern is the same in several other key industries. Paper mills last year found themselves unable to meet demand for products ranging from newsprint to grocery bags to cardboard boxes. This year, industry executives plan to increase spending on new factories and machinery by 34.4%, to $2.5 billion. Demand for steel far outstripped supply last year. Now the biggest steel users, the automakers, are cutting back orders sharply, but the nation's mills still cannot melt and roll steel fast enough to fill the needs of other customers. So, steelmen expect to boost 1974 capital spending...
...first she seems to fit into a pattern as predictable as a wildlife calendar, this Annie Dillard, the sensitive young woman with folded hands on the dust jacket, who looks out of her cottage window on nature and, sure enough, starting right on schedule with January, records the seasons as they come and go at Tinker Creek in Virginia. After the obligatory prologue resolving to "cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity," pace Thoreau, she introduces her obligatory cat and a goldfish named Ellery Channing. Then onto your feet. In "the long slant of light that means good walking," she points...
Harvard sprinted out to a 4-0 lead, but, in a pattern that was to continue throughout the game, Crimson mistakes allowed Springfield to run off eight straight points and come away with an easy 15-7 first-game victory...