Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broad enough to make the killer unpredictable. While six of the women victims had fairly long dark hair, three did not. Stacy's was blonde. Only one of the parked cars was in a traditional romantic lovers' lane; the rest were on quiet residential streets. The geographical pattern first centered on neighboring parts of Queens and The Bronx, but then spread to Brooklyn, alarming all of New York City. Since Son of Sam's letter to Breslin was postmarked in New Jersey, the killer seems highly mobile...
...beginning to wonder whether he is really up to the job. Nothing serious has been lost so far and much may yet be gained from Carter's obvious good intentions, his openness to new ideas and his ability to inspire those who see or hear him. But the general pattern of his foreign policy actions creates genuine cause for worry about troubles ahead...
...Administration tends to dismiss European complaints about U.S. policy, and some White House officials are openly contemptuous about the West European leaders' criticisms. Groans one White House aide: "It's a classic pattern. Whenever West European leaders are under political pressure at home, they get vocally nationalistic, carping at the ever available Americans." To be sure, Giscard's outbursts have been
What has upset coppermen more than the strike is a wage settlement made with the unions last week by Kennecott Copper Co., the world's largest producer (1976 sales: $956 million). If it sets an industry pattern, the agreement will increase production costs by at least 15? per lb. over the next three years-at a time when prices are still sagging...
Certainly a principal purpose of human government must be to mitigate the unfairness that seems to be an integral part of human life-or, at the very least, not to compound it. The judicial system is meant to mediate, to knock the chaos of human behavior into a manageable pattern. The goal of fairness underlies American education, which has been regarded, sometimes more hopefully than accurately, as the way to give everyone an equal chance. Medicaid was meant to provide fairness in health care, so that if a poor man needs an $800 appendectomy or a $15,000 coronary bypass...