Word: pattern
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After months of investigation, negotiation and speculation, powerful House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski was indicted on 17 federal counts for having allegedly engaged in a broad 20-year pattern of corruption. Among the charges: tampering with a grand-jury witness and embezzling more than $500,000 in public funds to pay office workers hired mainly to perform personal services. The indictment forced him to relinquish his pivotal chairmanship to Florida's Sam Gibbons as a result of House Democratic Party rules...
...have noticed a pattern that has made me a more optimistic person, but the media ignores it," Gore said. "Every time I vote...
...hasn't made a difference. Unlike the work of many of her peers, Smith's poems seem more interested in art than in the artist, more curious about exploring details than about dissecting political issues or laying the poet's life on the page. Her life follows a similar pattern: She comes across as affable, always smiling, quiet, but her friends claim that her still waters not only run deep, but aren't that still to begin with. "She's not shy," says one. "She's crazy, actually...
...northeastern college into a national university by courageously adding and expanding graduate schools, enlarging the student body, recruiting faculty, broadening course offerings and liberating students from a strict set of course requirements. As Richard Norton Smith explains in his book, The Harvard Century, "For those in search of a pattern, there was [Eliot's] bold assertion that an open mind, trained to skeptical investigation, was preferable to complacency of any kind...
...School of Public Health wants to increase funding for research in areas ranging from the human genome project--which is mapping the entire human gene pattern--to the study of AIDS. The school will make much needed capital improvements. constructing its first new building in several decades...