Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Continuing its high-level holding pattern of the past three months, the Dow Jones industrial average last week came close to a three-year high of 1011 before settling back a bit to close at 992.6, down 3.62 for the week. But by several other measures the market is not particularly high at all-nor has it risen fast enough this year to make many investors feel rich. For example, a recent compilation by Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., a Manhattan brokerage firm, shows that 80% of the stocks on the New York and American exchanges are selling...
...even try to present these individuals in all their complexity; you prefer intellectual games of symbolism and pattern. When you start encouraging your interviewees to identify with their opponents, there's not much in your portraits that is acceptable as truth. Aren't you doing what you accuse Kissinger of doing: being an imbroglione, someone who toys with people...
...list of top ten majors, released yesterday by the Registrar's Office, is similar to the pattern of last year's freshman choices, although there are noticeable shifts in the popularity of some fields...
...awarding Bailyn the honorary "Degree of Humane Letters," Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. praised the 53-year-old historian as an "interpreter of the colonial age" whose "clarity of mind and pen bring a rare pattern of coherence and wholeness to our understanding of the American past...
...Supreme Court said that when there is a historical pattern of racial discrimination and when the needs of a low-income group cannot be met within the city, then the federal court does have a right to require that low-income housing be built in the suburbs. I agree with the Supreme Court decision. I have no objections to that...