Word: pattern
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...pattern of School No. 402-daybook, drill and the use of specialized subject-matter instruction as early as the fourth grade-is repeated in 147,000 "general education" schools across the U.S.S.R. Soviet children go to school six days each week, typically from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The required curriculum generally runs through tenth grade and covers about the same amount of schooling that U.S. students get attending five days a week from kindergarten through twelfth grade. City schools are better than rural schools, but most Soviet students study the same standard curriculum. Usually there is only...
With local variations, the same sorry pattern exists in most of America's larger cities. While Atlanta still boasts that it is "a city too busy to hate" and racial friction seems mild, there is tinder in the deterioration of its public housing. About 50,000 blacks occupy such buildings, which are heavily rat infested. City officials have detected some 10,000 housing code violations in just one project...
...pattern of special advantages that are enjoyed by officials in China's supposedly privilege-free society is revealed in case after case. Even the strict population-control regulations can sometimes be flouted by those with power. In Guangdong province, for example, one commune party secretary's wife gave birth to a fifthchild-three more than the maximum allowed. When the overly fertile wife and her husband were both elevated to higher ranks, local townspeople were prompted to express their envy. Cadres' lives, they complained, are filled with "double happiness-a growing family and promotion...
...longtime civil rights activist in Fort Wayne. Within hours, however, police discarded that theory and pursued another: that the would-be killer was, as Gibson put it, "an individual, possibly involved alone-an isolated-type incident." In other words, police now felt that the case might follow the same pattern as the shootings of King, the Kennedy brothers and George Wallace-a killer stalking his victim to avenge imagined grievances...
...headlines and on the map. President Carter took such a shellacking from some of his competitors, who criticized his affection for the White House rose garden from behind the Forum's simple wooden podium, that presidential press secretary Jody Powell complained in March, "There seems to be a pattern developing that whenever any candidate for the presidency of either party experiences a major defeat, he responds by going to Harvard and attacking the President...