Word: pattern
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African students at Harvard fit no single pattern in their activities and concentrations, but they share many characteristics. Many bridged the gap between Harvard and their homes by studying at secondary schools in Europe--usually in Britain, says Ndiaye, who studied for two years in South Wales. "Most of the students come from the upper strata of African society," he says...
...room in Icahn's midtown Manhattan offices, decorated with framed stock certificates of the companies he has profitably raided, testifies to his conquests. Among the hunter's trophies: American Can, Simplicity Pattern, Hammermill Paper and Marshall Field. It is a display that would make many of his corporate victims cringe, especially the many who lost their jobs when companies were restructured as a result. Yet Icahn's headquarters is no temple to fast money, like the vaulted office of the reptilian Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street. Instead, it serves as a model for the unglamorous way he thinks...
Several foreign policy experts have reacted favorably to Mylroie's "eccentric" ideas. "The originality [of her research] lies in her discerning a pattern... and seeing the larger picture," says Daniel Pipes, Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Pipes, who is the publisher of the foreign policy journal, Orbis, also co-authored a story in The New Republic with Mylroie on the necesity of a pro-Iraqi stance...
...Arab-Israeli crisis cycle through four-year periods corresponding to American presidential administrations. Mylroie has found that the U.S. alternates between an extremely pro-Israeli position and a stance which takes into account the demands of Arab countries and Israel alike. "She offers a more complex and more convincing pattern," Pipes says...
...reject individual appropriations without wiping out an agency's entire budget. Reagan has argued that a line-item veto would allow him to rein in the big spenders on Capitol Hill and bring down the deficit. Says a White House aide: "What we're talking about is changing a pattern of behavior that has existed for a long time...