Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Several factors are driving ad agencies into a pattern of expansion by acquisition. For one, industry profits dipped 1.5% last year, in part because the economy was sluggish and client companies curbed their advertising budgets as a cost-cutting measure. In response, many ad agencies are resorting to mergers as a way of sustaining their revenue growth...
...jury of one's peers. So the court changed the rules. Previously, a black defendant alleging the biased exclusion of black jurors had to show that the prosecutor invariably used peremptory challenges to exclude blacks in case after case. Now, said Powell, if a defendant can show a pattern of biased challenges in his trial alone, the prosecutor must demonstrate a nonracial motive for the challenges...
...third doubles followed a similar pattern. Austrian and Buchsbaum grabbed 6-3 victories in the first and third, and dropped the middle...
...fifth spot results followed the same pattern: only the names were different. Berkman defeated Susan Rice of Syracuse in straight sets...
...more outgoing Maurice has excelled at courting outside financing for the company's rapid growth. Until the Saatchis came along, London's stuffy financial community shunned advertising agencies as unreliable investments. The brothers changed all that by posting an unbroken pattern of 50% annual growth after they went public in 1975. Last week the company announced a $600 million stock sale, the third largest in British history. With all that spending money, the snowballing Saatchi & Saatchi will undoubtedly be growing even faster...