Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This Administration has selected a higher percentage of partisans than any since Woodrow Wilson's." Goldman calculates that Reagan has gone outside his party for only 2.9% of his district court appointments, compared with 4.5% for Jimmy Carter and 7.2% for Richard Nixon. One aspect of the political pattern has even the Administration upset, however. Under the longstanding system of "senatorial courtesy," the President generally fills vacancies from lists provided by Republican Senators. This is one reason for the heavy white, male tilt, say Administration officials. They recently passed the word to Senate leaders that the President wants more...
BENJAMIN'S DEVELOPING PASSION for his patient. Chloe, follows the usual pattern for middle-aged men who lust after beautiful, available young women. His marriage gets shoved into nebulous dimensions and isn't brought back until late in the movie, when it turns out that his wife too is having an affair. Immorality as an issue never comes up: Benjamin's seduction of Chloe seems not only hackneyed but the norm for society as a whole...
Like the first fragile buds of spring, tentative auguries of economic revival appear to be breaking through the depressed national economy. The indicators are maddeningly mixed, and business leaders are wary of overreacting until they see whether a consistent pattern emerges. But for the first time since the recession began in mid-1981, higher levels of production and of new orders were reported in January, according to the monthly survey of 250 industrial companies by the National Association of Purchasing Management. There was also good news from the National Federation of Independent Business: it said that the hiring plans...
...first President, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana gained independence from Britain in 1957. But poor planning and extravagant government spending soon undermined the economy, while incompetent officials and pervasive corruption eroded Nkrumah's popular support. In 1966 he was overthrown in a widely popular military coup. That revolt set the pattern for the future; in the succeeding 17 years Ghana has endured five such coups...
...retrospect, Bunshaft's abstract sculpture reflects the anti-urban bias of the early modern movement. Its vertical slab interrupts the building line along East 54th Street. Such disruption is now considered detrimental to an orderly street pattern. And the court Bunshaft created is uninviting and mostly empty...