Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree. Rocked in recent years by booster-infected scandals, including rumors of alumni-paid prostitutes entertaining prospective athletes, the NCAA recently banned all alumni contact with high school athletes--unless all applicants are treated the same. In other words, an alumnus who recruits an athlete must also show a pattern of recruiting dozens of other students...
Unlike the pattern of the first two games, the score in the third game was tied six times--at four, six, eight, nine, 12 and 13--and the lead never exceeded three points...
After being stymied on its first three power-play opportunities by a rushing Cornell defense, Harvard went into an attacking pattern called the "umbrella" and converted two of the next three man-up chances...
...along. She knows she will die, just as thousands of people in her town and the surrounding countryside have already died after being infected with the AIDS virus. Townspeople first attributed the mysterious disease to witchcraft. Now they know that their lovemaking is to blame. They have seen the pattern of infection as it travels from husband to wife to lover. Fifty of Kyotera's leading businessmen are dead. The streets are filling with homeless orphans, the offspring of AIDS victims in outlying areas. Josephine, racked by fevers, chronic diarrhea, throat lesions and a painful itching rash that covers...
...President's man. The press corps he viewed as the adversary, necessary but not to be embraced. He often closed his office door, gave nasty answers to nasty questions, got personal when his integrity was up for debate. The nonsmoking, nondrinking, nonswearing Speakes fitted no previous pattern. If 90% of the press corps took umbrage and cursed his unorthodoxy, 90% of the mail he got from the public (1,500 letters a month) approved his tough style. "I had to take a lot," he said last week, "so I gave back a lot. You cannot stand there with no backbone...