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Word: pattern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overall pattern turns out like this: In the 1972 Index of the New York Times, 23 columns, or over seven pages, are devoted to food-related articles. In the 1973 Index, 44 columns, or over 14 pages are. For the next four years, the corresponding figures go as follows: 1974-71 columns, or 23 pages; 1975--34 columns, or over 12 pages; 1976--16 columns, or over five pages, 1977--nine columns, or three pages...

Author: By Priscilla Hart, | Title: The Press and Hunger: Why Is It Ignored? | 4/4/1979 | See Source »

There are only a few unforgiving people in Washington who believe that there is a Watergate pattern in this Lance-Carter affair that reaches into the Oval Office. Most people are convinced that Carter is as honest a President as we have had in modern times. But almost everyone in this capital believes that if Carter does not move quickly and decisively to manifest his innocence, his silence will ripen into another great national doubt about presidential honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Truth Must Out | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...safeguard their stake in the revolution-not in the streets but just about everywhere else: hospitals, oil company offices, government ministries, courts, factories. The theme of each meeting was, as a woman pharmacist put it, "the unfinished revolution for both men and women." The refrain was the emerging pattern of exclusion of women: religious opinions implying that women are too weak to be judges, objections to coeducation, the absence of any women in the new government. "We would prefer to support Islam," said Mrs. Jaleh Shambayati, a lawyer, "if the government supports us. But I don't think, even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Unfinished Revolution | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

Carter lavished praise on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin for "daring to break the pattern of 30 years of bitterness and war" and for "venturing into the unknown." He promised that the U.S. "will be with them as they begin to make peace a living reality for their people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace: Risks and Rewards | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

TIME Reporter Tim Miller tested the hot lines by making informal calls to all three colleges. Emporia State and Arkansas, but not Johnson County, corrected his run-on sentence ("Enrollments will continue to decline, no change in the pattern is in sight") and his incorrect use of "less" for "fewer" ("Less students are enrolled this year than last"). The response was no better when he wanted to check out the more subtle misuse of "whom" in a subordinate clause ("They wanted to hire whomever was the best candidate"). A Johnson County instructor correctly insisted that Miller switch to "whoever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Grammarphone | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

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