Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Terriers got the ball back and promptly punted, only to recover a fumble five plays later, and the pattern was set for the rest of the game. B.U.'s overworked punter, Phil Gaudette--quite possibly the worst punter in the East--punted nine times for an average of 22.8 yards. He boomed one all of ten yards...
...pattern of graft and illegal campaign contributions which Ward's commission discovered is providing the source material for his IOP study group, which is examining the investigation's findings on a case-by-case basis...
...monotone--he gains in clarity and precision. "The history of American ethnic groups," says Sowell, "is the history of a complex aggregate of complex groups and individuals. It cannot be a simple morality play." He seeks to explain events from their causes, not to fit them into an ideological pattern. He desires to recount history as it happened, not as it should have happened...
...SECRET is to find a pattern in the absence of any that are visible. Sowell relates concisely how different immigrant groups brought different cultural traits with them that either impeded or buttressed their drive into the corridors of power and the coffers of wealth. His argument runs somewhat like this: a people living in their native land, in a certain part of the world, developed specific, well-defined habits and attitudes that assisted their endurance in that environment for hundreds of years. Some reason, often mere opportunity, leads many of them to emigrate to America, where those cultural traits remain...
Assigned to other cases in the busy Ninth Precinct, Majeski doggedly tracked Abbott in his free time. He amassed scores of details, hoping to detect a pattern and to anticipate Abbott's moves. When the fugitive left New York City, he had $200 in his pocket. He took odd jobs to earn more money, hitchhiked when he could not afford a bus, and sometimes lived off old friends or people he met along the way, to whom he introduced himself as Jack Eastman...