Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Professor Ed Sherman. But prosecutors want to win, and they "perceive that a Texas jury is more likely to give the death penalty to a black who killed a white." A similar South Carolina study found an almost identical pattern: local prosecutors over four years sought death sentences in 38% of homicides involving a white victim and black killer, but only 13% when a white had killed a black...
...electron "gun" housed in the vacuum tube behind the computer's video screen. This gun, following the sequence of signals, fires bursts of electrons at the back side of the screen. The electrons strike bits of phosphor that coat the screen and energize them, lighting up a pattern of dots. These dots form the shape of alphabetic characters, spelling out the message: DO YOU WANT ANOTHER CARD...
Most ominous, the U.S. slump is only part of a worldwide pattern of malaise. In the European Community, more than 11 million people, or 10.3% of the work force, are unemployed. Developing nations from Africa and Asia to Latin America are staggering under a $626 billion foreign-debt load. A string of near defaults on loans to Mexico, Argentina and now Brazil (see box) has rocked the international monetary system...
...pattern was of similar answers, and they happened to be wrong answers." When twelve of the students retook the test, they all passed again. The similarities were "very simple," explained Escalante. "They had the same teacher...
...children who appear to have AIDS are mainly the offspring of high-risk parents. Of the four best-studied patients, two had Haitian parents and two were children of intravenous drug abusers. One child's mother appeared to have AIDS and died of PCP. This pattern provides strong support for the theory that AIDS is spread by an infectious agent. But, says Dr. Richard O'Reilly, an immunologist at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "whether it is transmitted by close association after birth or through the placenta, we do not know...