Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rebuff is familiar to journalists, and Sider was not fazed. "Ninety percent of reporting is like 90% of a detective's work," he says. "You have to hustle around gathering fragments of information from as many sources as possible, and then fit them together into a logical pattern." So Sider set off across Washington, hunting down and questioning more than 50 people with a stake in the new energy program: Congressmen, Capitol Hill aides, industry executives, environmentalists, public interest lawyers and others. Then, after huddling with fellow Correspondent John Berry, another energy expert, he wired his findings to Associate...
...elsewhere at Harvard can surely benefit from the advice of experts in the field. An arbitrary and publicity sensitive governing board cannot hope to accomplish much in the spirit of improvement. The Overseers' recent action has set an unfortunate precedent that should not become a pattern...
...Harvards, this season is shaping up as a holding pattern. With much of last year's talent lost to the real world, coach Bill McCurdy will be looking for extraordinary efforts from what extraordinary talent remains...
...Thereafter, Sampson shows his patients how to make these suggestions to themselves while in the privacy of their own home. It's a process of attitude conditioning and eventually, attitude programming, by which Sampson believes a person can improve his "self-image" and mentally psyche himself into a desired pattern of behavior. It is clear after listening to a session Sampson held with the grad student Schmulder, that he disdains using the arcaneclinicaljargonofpsychoanalysis...
...future. Harmonizing with Buckingham on "Don't Stop," her crystalline voice insists, "Yesterday's gone; don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Buckingham's "surf's up" Los Angeles enthusiasm, along with a crisp guitar solo, steams the song to a tempestuous finale. But he spins a still more intricate pattern in "Go Your Own Way," as he weaves his voice with McVie's and Nicks' in rounds. Both the percussion and guitar begin softly, bowing to the lyrics, but a soaring acidic guitar eventually captures the bitter spirit of the song ("You can go your own way; you can call...