Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter to the fraternity's 50 members, an administrator charged that Kappa Sigma had "an established pattern of disruptive behavior," including sexual harassment, racist behavior, physical assaults and religious slurs...
...would expect to see relatively the same pattern as in past years," he said, adding, "The people who are looking at schools like Harvard will be looking at schools with similar prices and we intend to be competitive with them...
...Total Shopper, her eyes two emerald-rimmed pinpoints inside a huge cloud of cherry fox. She is definitely post-mink. Her personality calls for skunk, or perhaps tree sloth (to match her elaborate false fingernails), but she settles on a coat with pelts worked in next year's pattern, a sort of scallop effect resembling a Queen Anne façade. In case she ever sets foot outdoors, she buys a coyote ski jacket. She seems sorry not to have spent more than $8,000. Her husband, waiting at one of the glass-topped tables along the edge...
...increasing European demand and a 20% increase in sales in the U.S. last year alone. Even so, last year's inventory must be sold to make room for next year's styles. Gone are the classy days of choosing pelts over tea, fitting a canvas pattern. "We need to have coats in stock now," says Forrest. "It's impulse buying...
While conceding he failed to prevent improper payments, Miller denies having had any knowledge of them, and he points to explicit orders he issued against such practices. No one has clearly proved that Miller knew or took part in the payments. However, the evidence for a pattern of improper conduct that would have been hard to hide from Textron's top manager is strong--strong enough to cloud the office of Secretary of the Treasury with the kind of doubt last raised there by the tenure of John Connally...