Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bearing factory. Says the N.F.L.'s chief negotiator, Jack Donlan: "The idea of the union distributing wages, becoming in effect partners of the owners', is alien to American business." It is certainly alien to the way the N.F.L. has done business. The owners propose to continue their pattern of negotiating individual contracts, but promise that a lot more money will be paid out when all those contracts are added up. They have offered a sweetener: retroactive individual bonuses for every year played since 1977, up to $60,000. And by the end of the proposed five-year contract...
...mass murderer Charlie Starkweather, who as a 19-year old in 1958 killed 10 Nebraskans in eight days--all with his 14-year old girlfriend by his side. The deaths were gruesome and the body count included the girlfriend's mother, stepfather and baby half-sister. In a pattern consistent throughout the disturbing album, Springsteen adopts the voice of the protagonist and it is a sympathetic, rather unjudgmental one. Borrowing lines from the true Starkweather story which was later popularized in the film Badlands, Springsteen writes: "I can't say that I'm sorry for the things that we done...
...Coburg bordello: chanteuse for the early show, and after that "the woman with the sweetest ass in NATO" for the town's corrupt burghers. Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is an honest public official whose idea of an evening's entertainment is to watch the test pattern on his new TV set. Unaware of Lola's occupation, Von Bohm takes her on a date to church-such are the idealist's hopes for a spiritually healthy postwar Germany-and falls in love with her. The Blue Angel trajectory is established: Von Bohm must discover, understand, compromise...
With three wide receivers in the game. Pecevich attacked the Harvard secondary again on second down. Looking for flanker Kevin Jackson on a sideline pattern, the UMass quarterback instead connected with Harvard's Myer's for the second straight time...
...charges that became public last week were a good deal more specific. Responding to what they called a "consistent pattern" of serious complaints about obstetric and gynecologic care, a women's group in the Medical Area last spring filed a formal complaint against the doctors involved...