Word: pattern
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...atmospheric pressures at opposite sides of the great ocean. At this time of year, a great, spongy mass of warm, wet air ordinarily hangs over Australia and Indonesia, while the eastern side of the Pacific is covered with relatively dry, cool air. Not so in 1983. A high-pressure pattern is locked over Australia, while the South American coast is awash with heavy, humid air. Says Eugene Rasmusson, chief climate analyst of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): "Every few years there is a seesaw effect, and there are dramatic results around the earth...
Graham added that the allegedly racially-motivated evictions were part of a "pattern that's going on across the country, but the urgency and scope" of this case makes it "particularly shocking...
Frahm does not have anyone specific in mind as his successor. "It's not as easy as it looks," he said yesterday of the bell, which is rung in a set pattern with a common dining, half knife. Although he would "definitely like to see someone play next year," he added that he would like only one successor, who appreciates the timing needed to produce an effective crowd response...
...fact channeled material goods to the Viet Nam regime in order to help peasants. While that is the only way to operate in the totalitarian country, N.C.C. statements consistently ignore the fact that the "new economic zones" it supports are part of an oppressive political pattern. Churches would never be so shortsighted in treating, say, South Africa...
Many of the Protestant agencies now under attack do not seem to be greatly concerned with that threat. Next week the United Methodist Reporter, the church's most influential newspaper chain, will begin reporting on its own exhaustive N.C.C. investigation; among other things, it found an overwhelming pattern of left-wing political bias in hundreds of N.C.C. political statements over the past five years. Even James Wall of the liberal Christian Century magazine says council staffers often supply answers "filled with romantic revolutionary rhetoric. Mistakes of the left are either not seen or, as one person...