Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While some rich people have done nothing to merit their fortunes, others have accumulated riches honestly, through hard work. But when these various species of rich people all adopt a certain set of peculiar and expensive manners, customs and attire, a pattern emerges. If they can convince the rest of us that their peculiar whims constitute good taste, they succeed in creating the impression that they are superior. Giving status to preppy fashions sported by the rich helps legitimize their wealth, however they may have obtained...
...another action last week, the Supreme Court continued its pattern of expanding a citizen's guarantee of privacy in his home. The Justices decided, 7 to 2, that an arrest warrant alone does not authorize police to enter homes, other than a suspect's own, where they think he may be hiding. Specific search warrants for those homes are required, wrote Thurgood Marshall, because an arrest warrant protects the rights of only the suspect...
...city executes its maintenance work with a precision similar to that of the Dallas Cowboys on a pass pattern. Dallas keeps a computerized inventory of all street surfaces, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and stop lights. Water-main breaks and cracks in the pavement are rigorously recorded, as are the costs of repairing them. The city, for example, annually cleans out 26% of its sewers, and trouble-prone stretches of underground pipe are inspected by subterranean television cameras...
...Administration admits, there is currently no real Reagan-Haig Middle East policy other than a general commitment to extending the Camp David accords. Policy will remain in a holding pattern until after the President's recovery, and until after Israel's national elections on June 30. Thus Haig's mission was primarily to position himself as a trustworthy spokesman for the Administration, and to articulate Reagan's view that Soviet expansionism represents as great a threat to the stability of the Middle East as the unresolved issue of Palestinian autonomy. Haig argued that nations...
...have been thrown at my officers just by chance." Indeed one sign of Britain's growing racial tension has been clashes between blacks and neofascist white organizations like the thuggish National Front. Brixton's riot did not seem to follow that disturbing model, but instead traced another pattern, one that could be copied elsewhere. As a Brixton resident gloomily put it, "Next time it might be Cardiff or Liverpool. They've got the same problems: rundown cities and high unemployment...