Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Penn freshman Bob Speca set up a display of several hundred dominos in an intricate arrangement before the meet at poolside. In the pre-meet ritual for the Quakers, Speca, of the Johnny Carson show fame, knocked down the dominos that fell into a pattern reading, "Go Penn, Have...
...speeches this week present a quizzical pattern--he emerges as a liberal who favors big government spending but demands less federal intervention. Whether that combination will hold much water in Washington, where politicians have no particular regard for educators, remains to be seen...
...Wide Pattern. Lockheed has admitted paying out $22 million abroad over the years to increase sales of its military aircraft, but has refused to name the recipients. The company did not itself name Kodama, but documents from Arthur Young & Co., Lockheed's auditors, fell into the hands of a Senate subcommittee investigating multinational corporations, and the subcommittee made them public. They revealed not only the Kodama connection but also a pervasive pattern of corporate influence buying: payments to Italian politicians, "gifts" to Turkish officials, and the pur chase of industrial secrets...
...while his colleagues met in Paris, told TIME last week that the Southern Socialist strategy is designed to "force the Communists to come out for freedom." Whether or not Communist leaders are sincere in promoting liberty, such ideas will inevitably "create in workers and militants a new pattern of thought" favorable to democracy. Soares also thinks that keeping Communists in the Portuguese government has usefully served both to split the party and to make it share responsibility for the unpopular austerity measures there...
...Brown decision was in the end less a lawyer's brief than a moral resolution. By making it the centerpiece of a vast pattern, Kluger sometimes tells the reader more than he wants to know (including the annual rainfall in Clarendon County: 50 inches) and relentlessly piles subplots upon subplots. But his collage of facts and events, institutions and people eventually documents nothing less than a national change of heart...