Word: pattern
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Harvard, at least, has made Brown work for it victories. The usual pattern when the two meet is a close game for a quarter or two, after which the Bruins pull away. That's because the Crimson, ranked second in N.E. throughout this season, has a starting lineup that can just about match Brown's but when both teams go to their benches. Brown has the edge...
Interestingly, the pattern of even play followed by letdown repeats itself each time Brown has the bull. The big guns, especially 6-ft., 2-in. Mike McDiurmid and 6-ft., 5-in. David Todhunter, work the bull around the perimeter unhindered by Crimson across long enough to block their posses, holding back while the shot clock runs down... until one of them fires a cannonbull...
...first place, little is known about the medical ramifications of PMS. Headaches, depression, swollen arms and legs, severe abdominal pain and violent outbursts have all been cited as symptoms of the syndrome, which, manifesting a wide range of quirks in a wide range of women, apparently follows no consistent pattern or course. Therefore, the court would have had to accept on faith Santos's claims that her menstrual stress related to her behavior...
Unfortunately, the issue that both sides have focused on is easily the most abstruse. The women's initial complaint last April charged that D. Paul I Winig '62 had performed proportionally far too many Caesarian sections. The same letter cited a less quantifiable "consistent pattern" of complaints and discomfort about his practice generally...
...Warren E.C. Waeker responds in a wide variety of ways, which all point to some problems with the numbers. He has variously said the figures cover too short a timespan to be significant, that the better figures (obtained from Brigham and Women's Hospital records) show no scientifically significant pattern and that statistics are irrelevant...