Word: pattern
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...banning are harsh, they are not as unpleasant in most cases as the more common punishment of indefinite detention without trial. In 1960 the government began to practice detention in addition to banning, which was ten years old. The two repressive measures have become part of the grim pattern of national life. Over the years, banning and detention have been used to silence more than 1,500 critics of the regime, including 350 people seized during the Soweto riots in 1976 and scores of journalists, clergymen and antiapartheid leaders following the death in custody of Stephen Biko...
...sophomore year, Rick Slager was the favored quarterback of Coach Dan Devine, though the leading receiver at the time, Ken MacAfee, still wonders why. According to MacAfee, "The pattern began to be that Rick Slager would start the game and then Montana would have to come in and save it." Joe sat out the entire season in 1976 with a separated shoulder, extending his eligibility one year and increasing his frustration...
...pattern was distressingly familiar. After a New Year's Eve coup, Jerry Rawlings, 34, a former air force flight lieutenant, moved ruthlessly to fashion what he called a "people's government." Working with friends in the military, he summarily dismissed Ghana's parliament, banned political parties and suspended the nation's constitution. By the end of last week the new military government had called for special "people's tribunals" to try Ghanaians, including government officials, arrested for crimes "against the people." The announcement raised fears that the takeover would follow the course of Rawlings...
...that some observations may seem impenetrable to outsiders: "I began to take a few fish on a small Fore-and-Aft fly with one grizzly hackle at each end of the hook and peacock herl wrapped in between," writes Carter. "Later I tied a few of them and the pattern proved to be surprisingly effective, both in the riffles and in the smooth water, even at times when the all-black Spruce Creek Special or the redoubtable Black Ant would not work in the meadow pools." Says Fly Fisherman Editor John Randolph of Carter's prose: "He got everything...
Major labor negotiations are due to take place during the year. The auto and rubber workers and the teamsters are all bargaining for new contracts. Although such groups represent only a small fraction of the total American labor force, they traditionally have set the wage pattern for the rest of unionized employees and even influenced wage settlements for many nonunion workers...