Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women are sincerely attracted to him, fall in love with him. If I were to try to speak to them and say, "You're just a part of a pattern I've watched for ten years, they'd tell me it's none of my business, and they'd be right. When the affair breaks up, maybe they just feel the normal heartbreak over the end of a love affair, but I get so angry seeing the same pattern over and over again...
...small isolated college campuses, women report similar patterns in which students have had to watch the professor go on to the next student affair, sometimes even with someone in the same dorm. Because the affairs were fairly visible and commonplace, there was little attempt to put a stop to the professor's pattern...
Thus, even if the Olympic movement survives this year's debacle, the all-to-likely disruption of the 1988 Games will probably make permanent the pattern of instability and insure that no nation will risk hosting the Olympics thereafter. According to this line of thinking, it would make sense to consign the Games to history's dustbin right now and forego the future trauma...
...ball, a bell, a rattle and a safety pin. Success depends on the skill of the examiner, who must guide the baby in and out of sleep, calm alertness and crying, while he watches the child's reaction to his simple stimuli. The baby will establish his own pattern of responses out of the infinite number of possibilities, and so give the examiner clues to personal characteristics. "With the scale, we can identify an active baby, a quiet baby, a cuddly baby, a normal baby." Tronick said...
Under Jones's plans, information would be processed inside a computer by a complicated pattern of optic signalling between circuits containing bits of information...