Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into lighthearted, ephemeral structures from which fabric waves. Thin, tubular balloons, some hundreds of feet long, sway in the air like giant streamers. Chain-link fences, essential for security, wear miles of fabric blazoned with Sussman's colors in stars and bars, as well as a special confetti pattern...
...senior Administration official claims that the affidavit represents "only one case" in a pattern of high-level Nicaraguan involvement in the cocaine trade going back more than a year. The U.S., he says, has substantial although still only circumstantial evidence linking two Sandinista Cabinet ministers to the drug traffic. But so far none of the evidence, which the U.S. says includes tape-recorded conversations and ground and satellite photographs, has been released...
...slim, new, 35-story tower that straddles the old building. The new building is abruptly interrupted by a kind of roof garden with a domed swimming pool and a jogging track. Arquitectonica plans to deck out the building's façade in a bold, Mari-mekko-like pattern of white glass, black marble and red-enameled metal...
...pattern took on a new dimension in January, when Muslim guards scared away intruders from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, site of the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque, two of the Islamic world's most hallowed shrines. Explosives were discovered near by. Following a two-month investigation by Shin Bet, Israel's internal security force, three men were arrested. They turned out to belong to a fanatical Jewish group, with headquarters in the Lifta Valley near Jerusalem, that believes the mosques on the Temple Mount must be razed and the Second Temple, which was destroyed...
...classic pattern. At one end of society are the rich, whose money buys them opportunities and whose opportunities bring them more money. At the other are the poor, caught in a downward spiral in which nothing, it seems, can come of nothing. College graduate and illiterate cannot find a common language, high liver and low achiever cannot see eye to eye. The northerners scoff at the warm passions and expansiveness of their compatriots to the south, the southerners scorn the icy rationalism and inhibitions of their countrymen to the north...