Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American diplomat, Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon declared that "Israel must be allowed to live within defensible borders." While U.N. resolutions also insist that Israel is entitled to "secure" frontiers, there has been no consensus on what constitutes security. The Israelis' meaning has generally been indicated by the pattern of their settlements in the occupied lands: the former Arab sector of Jerusalem has been annexed and declared Israel's undivided capital; 32 Israeli villages now flourish on the West Bank of the Jordan, and most Israeli leaders insist on retaining that river as their eastern border; Israeli settlements...
...have advocated and implemented in Egypt the policy of dialogue and openness between us and the world. We are practicing the dialogue of cooperation by deeds and words alike in the area of economic and technological development. A pattern of triangular relations between advanced technology in cooperation with the capital of oil-producing countries is helping the Egyptian people to build a sound and dynamic system that can cope with the economic challenge...
From the very beginnings of the international oil trade in the 1920s, Blair discovered a pattern of price fixing and cozy marketing arrangements by which the big companies divided up the world for their own gain and tried to ruin any small independent firm that sought to cut prices or intrude on their turf. No other industry, Blair implied, so depended on bribes and payoffs...
...Come and Go, he includes three women, gossip, hypocrisy, but no drawing room, and no second or third act. Although the play does have plot reversals, they are less reminiscent of the action in School for Scandal than of the printouts of a computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme of emptiness runs through both of these plays, which...
...historical pattern is valid, Fell's supporters will attack the professionals as conservative, closed-minded and arrogant. And the professional's reluctance to comment on Fell's theories will be interpreted as an inability to counter them...