Word: pattern
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...found a pattern, and at a meeting to Arizona last august, the two dropped their bombshell. The extinctions, they said, seemed separated by periods of roughly 26 million years--the most recent occurring 11 million, 37 million, and 91 million years ago, leaving the present age about midway between extinctions...
Mondale portrayed the Laxalt letter as part of a pattern of "moral McCarthyism," instigated by "an extreme fringe poised to capture the Republican Party and tear it from its roots in Lincoln"−with Reagan's encouragement. "Listen to Jerry Falwell," he urged his audience, "whose benediction at the Republican Convention called Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush 'God's instruments for rebuilding America.' Or read the so-called Christian Voice report card, which flunks Geraldine Ferraro on 'moral/family issues' because she supports the nuclear freeze. Or scan something called the Presidential Biblical Scoreboard, which...
Officials of the suing states were distressed by the EPA position. Thornburgh suggested that it continued a pattern of "discriminatory enforcement." New York's Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo claimed that his state has "the most comprehensive program in the nation to reduce acid rain, but 90% of the acid rain killing our lakes originates in other states. The Administration is leaving us all but defenseless." As for Maine's Democratic Governor Joseph Brennan, he angrily accused the Administration of "saying, in effect, it's O.K. to dump your garbage on your neighbor's lawn...
...other. Last June the Soviet Union invited the U.S. to talk in Vienna in September about, among other issues, banning antisatellite weapons in outer space. The U.S. accepted but could not swallow Soviet preconditions, so the talks have not convened. Instead, relations have settled back into the jittery holding pattern that began when the Soviets quit nuclear-arms talks late last year to protest the deployment of new U.S.-built Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe. In a direct response to that deployment, the Soviets last week announced that they are testing ground-launched cruise missiles of their...
...looking for a pattern, Sir Nigel," Forsyth's hero, Agent John Preston, reports to his boss. "It's all I can look for. A pattern of entries and exits by the same passport number. . . . It's not much, but it's all I have...