Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pattern of Red Brigades kidnapings has been to draw out the agonized suspense for governments and the families of victims, often issuing two or three shrill polemical communiques be-:ore setting ransom. One possible demand in the Dozier case: scrapping a plan to install 112 nuclear-tipped American cruise missiles in southern Sicily...
...unemployment picture next year looks grim. In most economic downturns, joblessness continues to grow even after the economy starts to recover, and TIME'S board sees the pattern being repeated once again in 1982. By year's end, the board expects unemployment to stand at 8.3% of the labor force after peaking at 9% during the second quarter of 1982. Such a jobless rate would match that of the 1973-75 slump as the worst in the postwar...
...high-pressure, big money environment of college football has produced a long series of recruiting violations, an atrociously low percentage of athletes who actually receive degrees, a pattern of falsified grade transcripts to allow athletes to maintain eligibility, and a host of other problems. So what was the NCAA's response last week to this growing list of disgraces? The group turned to its Ivy League members--which come closest to joining education and sport in a mutually beneficial alliance--and threw them out of the game's top division...
Interest rates continued their three-month-long slide last week, as many American banks dropped the bench mark prime inter est rate to 15½%. In September the rate stood at 20%. The moneymen were again following the pattern set by Southwest Bank of St. Louis, which ranks only 1,270th in size among the some 14,000 banks in the U.S. but is a leader in setting the prune. Two weeks ago, Southwest was the first bank to lower its rate to the new level...
Artistic rebellions usually end in new orthodoxies every bit as rigid and dogmatic as the old. Harry Jackson, 57, did not revise this pattern, he reversed it. In 1957, at the beginning of a promising career in abstract expressionism, Jack son dropped his dribble stick and picked up the brush and palette of a traditional realist. He left New York City for long visits to Wyoming, where he had once worked as a cowhand...