Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional celebration in the city now seems terrifying. There has been no increase in unruly behavior, no upturn in arrests. There has been a change in perception. That change has come about because of a new conception of what public events should be like. It is a pattern which can be traced across the country...
THESE EXAMPLES are only the most publicized ones. They represent a pattern of cutting corners and stretching the law. Often this pattern hurts the University's finances and its public image almost as much as the tenants or students involved...
Yohe rode the wind for all it was worth, heaving touchdown throws of 17 yards to Kent Lucas and 23 yards to Bob Glatz in the second quarter. He added a 29-yard post-pattern toss to Barringer, who caught the ball on his fingertips, in the fourth...
...union thereupon served notice last week, well before its labor contract expires on Sept. 14, that the No. 2 U.S. automaker would be the U.A.W.'s priority target in seeking a new three-year pact. The designation was meant to put increased bargaining pressure on the target company, a pattern that in years past meant a settlement with Ford would quickly be applied to GM and Chrysler as well. But that is no longer the case: bargaining this year could be the most complicated -- and perhaps the roughest -- in quite some time...
...themselves. It was the presentation -- all those baroque, biting videos -- that gave them their eerie afterglow. Bad goes a whole step further. Now it's the songs that are crazy. Separately, they are innocuous enough, sentimental or feisty or scary as the mood demands. But together they form a pattern of jagged lines and long shadows that is troubling...