Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy is to accomplish our various objectives of maintaining the social safety net, of protecting the truly needy, maintaining our defense build up at the level that is required, of having essentially the freeze on other programs taken as a whole and developing the strategy of a declining deficit pattern for future years. I think all of these things are being accomplished in this budget and that's why I think it should clear very well...
Harvard presents extraordinary opportunities to qualified students, and the offer of admission is a difficult one to turn down. Depending on one's attitude, the fact that the College has chosen to use this educational market dominance to the detriment of its students is either consistent with a pattern of valuing economic concerns over the welfare of the undergraduates, or a puzzling reversal of an interest in the long term welfare of the College and its students. In either case it is a policy which demands to be changed...
Bloomfield added that Bercovich "has just revolutionized the field of American literature." Bloomfield cited in particular the Columbia scholar's work in realizing the importance of Puritan typology, that is, the way those early settlers felt they were "fulfilling the Biblical pattern...
...after Harvard survived two early penalties, the game took on a see-saw pattern that continued until overtime. Blueliner Code knotted it early in the third stanza when another of his off-speed slapshots beat Sylvestri on the stick side...
...every year in the U.S. until 1965.* After 1930, there were 455 men executed for rape, most of them in the South and 89% of them black, a majority grotesquely out of proportion to black sexual offenses. Black murderers too were executed much more frequently than white killers, a pattern that prevailed through the 1960s...