Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assortment of bombers at a top-secret airfield in the Soviet Union. There are also high-altitude views of submarines nestling alongside their mother ships on the coast of the Barents Sea; a lunar-like landscape that is a Soviet hydrogen-bomb test site; a graceful triangular pattern deep in central Asia that marks the Tyuratam launch site for Soviet space shots and missiles...
...urgency of the issue and the careful orchestration of the Administration's response, Carter's actual program followed an all too familiar pattern of hesitant and belated steps toward a worthy goal. And a great deal of it had been too extensively leaked in advance to have much psychological effect. Its main elements...
...suggest that this mistake reflects a "consistent pattern of racism" in The Crimson--as some members of Third World organizations have suggested--flies in the face of what every regular reader of The Crimson knows: that our news policy has always been to give as full and unbiased coverage to Third World issues as we can, and our editorial positions have consistently championed the needs and concerns of Third World students...
...many of those who look for the best in him, Carter remains an ineffective President, one who has only partly followed the traditional pattern of growing in the job. He too often seems as uncertain as when he first took office: an immensely dedicated, well-meaning, decent man who is not comfortable with the power of the presidency. Says a former top official in Washington: "He really doesn't like power and doesn't know...
This crazy-quilt winter weather was the result of erratic changes in the usual pattern of westerly winds-especially the high-altitude jet stream-that whip across the U.S. Part of a broader global feature known as the circumpolar vortex, the winds in winter usually follow a sharply undulating path round the Northern Hemisphere, like the bottom of a whirling crinoline skirt. Sweeping northeast over the Pacific, the winds pick up warmth and moisture. Heading down again from the cold north, they cause heavy rain and snowstorms from the Rockies through the heartland to New England...