Word: pattern
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...main reason for the increase is changes in the traditional pattern of immigration. Revision of the federal immigration law in 1965 allowed people from Third World countries, such as Mexico and the Philippines, where leprosy is endemic, to enter the U.S. in increased numbers. Refugees from Viet Nam and Cuba have helped create sizable pockets of the disease in California (1,038 reported cases), Hawaii (759), Texas (509), New York (401) and Florida (115). Though health authorities routinely screen immigrants and refugees, leprosy often escapes notice. Explains Dr. Thomas Rea, who treats 320 leprosy patients in Los Angeles...
...bring his reflections from far off the beaten base paths: he has spent some time with a former star or picked up on the fortunes of an obscure semipro pitcher. After the World Series, he recaps the autumn games and the various heroics leading up to them. Now another pattern is emerging. His pieces were collected into books in 1972 (The Summer Game) and 1977 (Five Seasons). No fan will have trouble interpreting these statistics. It is 1982, time for another quinquennial classic...
...evils of homosexuality. On the first night, Riethmiller shared a bed with her mother, while Roe slept beside them on the floor. The second night was different, according to the young woman; her mother retired to an adjacent bedroom, whereupon Roe locked the door and raped her. This pattern allegedly continued for five more days and nights. At times, Riethmiller was manacled to Roe with a pair of handcuffs purchased by her mother. Her ordeal ended when the kidnapers learned that the police were closing in, and they decided to surrender. The Riethmillers, Patrick, Roe, Goss and Ray (who fled...
...evidenced by his firing last August of 15,000 professional air traffic controllers for their illegal strike action in a wage dispute, has already helped stiffen the resolve of employers in contract talks. Wages and benefits account for some two-thirds of all U.S. business costs, and the emerging pattern of wage restraint in key industries, such as autos, trucking and airlines, strongly suggests that the slowdown in inflation is now beginning to chip away at the so-called core, or underlying, rate of price increase...
...seems to be one with the surrounding woods and rocks. The chapel's architect, E. Fay Jones of Fayetteville, Ark., who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, describes it as a kind of reversal of gothic cathedral architecture. The trusses inside the structure form a repetitive, rhythmic lattice pattern as evocative as a Bach fugue...