Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though she acknowledges she doesn't fit the Harvard pattern, Klein insists that she's felt no pressure from the University because of her political views. "I have not felt persecuted or sought out because of my politics. I don't think the University is out to get me. I don't think they think about me at all....Given my position, I could be Mao Zedong and it really wouldn't matter...
...heart-one through veins to the right atrium, the other to the tip of the heart's ventricles. Unlike pacemakers, which give a steady stream of tiny electric prods to a sluggish heart, the defibrillator is programmed not to interfere with the heart's normal pattern. Rather, it responds only to severe aberrations in beat, and within 15 to 20 seconds administers a corrective shock (700 volts) that a conscious patient feels as a sharp tingle. If the heart does not resume normal beating, the defibrillator commands up to three more jolts. During the three-year life...
...professional investors, the most convincing buy signal came in early July, when it turned out that second-quarter corporate profits had declined by a less-than-expected 9%. Says Barton Biggs, a managing partner at the Morgan Stanley & Co. investment banking firm: "The market is tracking a classic recession pattern. In general the best gains have come after the worst decline in corporate earnings...
...pattern of such poverty remains widespread; in many regions farm life is even harsher than on Long Chi commune. The most startling revelation in a series of remarkably candid press stories in recent months is that in three decades of rule, the Communist regime has barely begun to improve the lot of a vast number of its peasants. Some regions in the chronically poor provinces such as hilly Guizhou, arid Gansu or often flooded Shandong have not had a single good year since collectivization began in the late 1950s. According to one article, a quarter of the rural population...
...double-bind" theory to explain schizophrenia; to cybernetics, of which he was one of the founders; and to the study of animal communications. Convinced that a unity underlies the diversity and change in living things, he asked in his latest book, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, "What pattern connects the crab to the lobster and the orchid to the primrose and all four of them...