Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begins pointing out objects and giving them names. From ten months onward, the child as well begins pointing out objects. Mothers introduce a familiar pattern: 1) pointing to an object; 2) putting the question to the child, "What (or who, or where) is that?"; and 3) labeling the object, person or place ("That's a hat," "That's Grandma," "That's the bedroom...
...total flights would improve all the airlines' earnings; indeed, under such an arrangement the hard-pressed, unsubsidized U.S. carriers would certainly lose. U.S. airlines point out that far from having more than a fair share of the business, the American flight schedules exactly match the actual pattern of travel between the two countries, which is about 60% by Americans and 32% by Britons...
...week strike by 60,000 members of the United Rubber Workers came after a 70-hour bargaining marathon, when union negotiators and Firestone agreed to a new pay package giving workers a 36% increase in wages and benefits over three years. The Firestone agreement, which will set the pattern for the other struck members of rubber's Big Four (Goodyear, Goodrich and Uniroyal), will boost the industry's average hourly wage in the first year by 880, to $6.38 an hour. In addition, the rubber workers got an escalator that provides an extra 1? an hour for each...
There is an old myth, which should have been laid to rest decades ago, that dividends flow mainly into the pockets of wealthy individuals. Actually, there has been a historic if little heralded shift in the pattern of share ownership. In terms of dollar value, nearly half of all corporate shares these days are owned by institutions such as pension funds, insurance companies, college endowments, even churches. Without even realizing it, millions of Americans rely on corporate strength for their own future security. The assurance of a retirement income, the soundness of an insurance policy, the availability of a college...
...first person to see a pattern in the outbreak of illness seems to have been Dr. Ernest Campbell, a physician in Bloomsburg, Pa., who noticed that three patients with the same symptoms had been to a convention together. He called health authorities to arrange for tests but was told that the state laboratory was closed for the weekend...