Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supply permitted by the Federal Reserve were forcing up rates. Regan maintained that rising rates, in turn, were fueling inflationary expectations on the part of investors and businessmen and, in the process, deepening and prolonging the recession. To bolster the point, Treasury aides produced charts showing a crazily careening pattern of growth and contraction in the U.S. money supply since last autumn...
These and other projected cuts continue the pattern begun by the fall cuts, a pattern which has already forced Harvard and most other private institutions to tighten their belts and begin looking around urgently for alternative ways of stretching their dwindling aid resources. The Ivy League Committee on Financial Aid resolved at a meeting this fall to scrutinize the mechanisms by which their admissions offices determine a family's contribution to tuition; they acted as much to help strapped families that might be unable to pay their evaluated fees under the new federal strictures, as to make sure the colleges...
...persecution of Shcharansky is part of a pattern of increasingly severe treatment of dissidents, Jews and other ethnic minorities that has coincided with the deterioration of U.S.-Soviet relations. Soviet leaders have increased the arrests of dissidents and cut back drastically on the number of Jews allowed to emigrate. By the end of 1981 emigration had dropped to an average of 380 people a month, an 82% decline over the previous two years. One of those allowed to emigrate earlier was Avital Shcharansky, 31, who met Secretary of State Alexander Haig during his trip to Israel two weeks...
...with his. Certainly Pollock scorned decor. He was not interested in painted hedonism; and yet his practice of painting "all over"-by covering an entire field with incidents that were not arranged in hierarchies of size or emphasis-became, in a stupefied way, the basis of the ornamental "pattern and decoration" mode that came out of SoHo in the late...
...holding pattern, just waiting to hear from Harvard," said Janice Graeff, a member of the tenant union leadership...