Word: pattern
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...fact, the tangled web was spun by the Administration itself. What emerged from more than 100 hours of complex testimony about the Whitewater scandal was evidence of a persistent pattern of deception among White House staff members. By last week it was clear that both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill felt they had been misled by the Clinton White House. Roger Altman demanded that lawmakers believe his own recollections of meetings, rather than those of seven other officials who contradicted him under oath. Joshua Steiner, the 28- year-old Treasury chief of staff, insisted that his diary...
...White House says Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm wasn't fired but admits that new chief of staff Leon Panetta wanted to shore up the party leadership after a string of Democratic losses since 1993. In an increasingly regular pattern in the Clinton White House, old friend Wilhelm will stay on as chairman until after the November elections, while former House majority whip and current Wall Street powerhouse Tony Coelho will step in as a senior adviser. Coelho, who resigned in 1989 amid accusations he improperly mixed politics and finance, will keep his investment-banking job while advising...
...signs of change within this tight circle. Mark Rikess, 45, once ran his family Chevrolet dealerships in Minnesota and now heads a Los Angeles consulting firm that advises other dealers on ways to improve their selling practices. He has noticed that his clients tend to fall into the same pattern: second- or third-generation owners, college educated, between 35 and 45. "They want to change," Rikess says, "not because they are going to see a financial advantage today. They just don't want to run the business the way that Daddy...
Reilly said a trail of money, checks and bank statements revealed a pattern of money withdrawn from the Evening With Champions fund into the separate accounts of Lee and Sword...
...kids who are hyperactive, the pattern is unmistakable, says Dr. Bruce Roseman, a pediatric neurologist with several offices in the New York City area, who has ADHD himself. "You say to the mother, 'What kind of personality did the child have as a baby? Was he active, alert? Was he colicky?' She'll say, 'He wouldn't stop -- waaah, waaah, waaah!' You ask, 'When did he start to walk?' One mother said to me, 'Walk? My son didn't walk. He got his pilot's license at one year of age. His feet haven't touched the ground since...