Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...democracy, but to any one else it looks like a remarkably durable one-party government. For 54 years, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) has won every important election, when necessary manipulating the results to assure its victory. Last week a salutory triumph for pluralism unexpectedly broke that pattern. When the votes for elections held in five states were tallied, the National Action Party (PAN) had won nine municipal seats and five legislative seats in the northern states of Durango and Chihuahua. It was the best performance by any opposition party since the PRI was founded in 1929. Declared...
...coincidence of openings is only the tip of a thematic iceberg. A sampling of plots from the eight stories not fitting that particular pattern reveal some of its contours...
...into it, then let's get on with it. He has two of the prime qualities every highflying avatar needs: a restless imagination and a roving eye. "Never wear a new pair of shoes in front of him," his friend Mick Jagger once joked. People or music, the pattern is the same. Says his old crony and frequent producer Tony Visconti: "David will spend a very passionate, intense time with someone he loves, and he'll take notes. When he has what he wants and things have reached the point of stagnation, he goes...
Many of the alterations in the disputed transcripts were made, legitimately, at the request of the members involved. But some Republicans charged that they had not been informed of revisions made in their remarks. G.O.P. Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi complained of "a pattern and a practice of malicious misconduct aimed at discrediting and defaming members of this House." Republicans tried to force the House into establishing a special committee to pursue the matter of the doctored transcripts in public hearings. But on a largely party-line vote last week, the Democrats succeeded in having the matter referred...
...parched countries face the same sad pattern. Along the "Street of Sickness" in northern Brazil's sweltering market town of Irauçuba, a family of twelve huddles in a two-room shack, hoping to survive on the $22 a month it receives from the government. The reason: with no vegetation to eat, cattle have collapsed on their feet, or simply died. Some villagers in India are reduced to chewing grass, sucking the roots of herbs and scrambling alongside animals to lap up water that spills out of pumps. In drought-plagued areas of the Philippines that have seen...