Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the explanation for the sudden sale given by the men who watch over Harvard's $1.5 billion portfolio was no surprise, falling into the University's pattern of consistent disregard for the humanitarian issues involved in the South Africa financial situation...
...been connected with Bomp's murder, but will be charged with extortion in the same indictment. All six will be tried under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Law, which provides penalties of up to 20 years in jail for anyone convicted of engaging in a "pattern of racketeering activity...
...long now, Ali has sat atop the boxing world playing rope-a-dope with unworthy opponents and carrying second-rate fighters through 15 rounds. The pattern was a tiring one and the heavyweight ranks needed some shaking up. Leon Spinks provided that dynamic force...
Instead, U.S. experts believe, the Russians needed a relatively large reactor to power a high-frequency radar carried aboard the satellite. The Soviets are thought to be trying to develop a radar sharp enough to detect changes in the pattern of plankton life near the oceans' surfaces. Such alterations are caused by the wake of deep-running subs, and thus could betray the presence of the previously untrackable U.S. nuclear deterrent...
...publicity is continuing. Last week New West and New York magazines ran a seven-page expose on Begelman, charging that his recent rip-offs were not a "mental aberration," as he claimed, but fitted a long-term pattern, dating back to his days as Judy Garland's agent in the early 1960s. Drawing mainly on files and canceled checks supplied by Garland's former husband Sid Luft, the article asserted that Begelman and a partner, Freddie Fields, had fleeced the singer of large amounts. Meanwhile the Los Angeles County district attorney was investigating the latest Begelman case but was finding...