Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed to return. But his wife, Human Rights Activist Yelena Bonner, reportedly said recently that he "felt isolated" and indicated that he might accept a new invitation. Novelist Georgi Vladimov, another prominent dissident, has already accepted a similar guest professorship at the University of Cologne in West Germany. The pattern seemed to fit in with reports that Andropov was giving priority to settling the dissident problem...
...seems clear that the pattern established by the Harvard Foundation is yet one more indication that Harvard University has little if any intention of actually promoting race relations and understanding among the increasing numbers of ethnically diverse students at Harvard University. Suran Gerdon...
...writing in response to Diana Ross' visit to campus. When the Harvard Foundation invited Sugar Ray Leonard here I was not very alarmed. It was only an instance of silliness--nothing to worry about. But now that Miss Ross has came and been honored. I fear that a pattern has been established. Instead of denouncing much a trend with hard words. I would like to suggest another way that the Foundation can bring a little Hollywood to Harvard. Why don't they invite Duffy Duck? Oh yea, that little varmint will pack'em in. In addition, he fits the Foundation...
Despite my desire to see that Professor Klein is able to stay here, it is important to understand her denied promotion in the context of a consistent pattern of decisions about tenure and promotion. Harvard is not particularly committed to finding and retaining talented teachers. Rather, their goal is to maintain the reputation--not the quality--of this institution by tenuring well-known scholars regardless of their ability to teach. In fact, those professor who have committed time and energy to teaching and to their students often found themselves behind in the race to publish and to achieve academic renown...
...many analysts to suspect that a long-expected "market correction," or sharp drop, might be coming. Wall Street, however, has weathered a number of such pauses since last summer, and each time stocks have gone higher again. Says Robert Farrell, chief market analyst for Merrill Lynch: "Since August the pattern of this bull market has been four to five weeks of advance followed by two to four weeks of consolidation. There have been four advancing periods and four consolidations...