Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toured the campus, we heard the superstitions, the campus firsts, the college history. I maintained low profile. I noticed a dangerous pattern developing, however: there we some things I just had to giggle at. A giggle isn't the normal tour noise--a well-oiled tour guide can time the laughs, the oohs and the aahs--so needless to say I caught a few suspicious looks as we turned the corners of the pseudo-Gothic buildings and walked up yet another hill...
...plants, and it is the only company in the industry that paints its own steel. Rundell boasts that "typically we are able to double the profit performance" of any company NCI takes over. Financial analysts praise NCI's managers for resisting all temptations to stray from their anti-conglomerate pattern. In all their acquisitions, says Bill Baker of Dain Raucher Inc., "they have never been seduced into areas they know nothing about...
Recent years have seen amazing reversals of traditional political postures, none more amazing than on the issue of using military force. Although the pattern is mixed and shifting, in Kosovo and other recent military controversies liberals are more likely to favor military action and conservatives are more likely to oppose it. The folks who frothed about protesters undermining the war effort are now doing it themselves...
...black assassin shoots Sunraider on the floor of the Senate. The novel's action takes place on what we assume to be the Senator's deathbed in the form of remembered riffs of sermons, folktales, signifying and the dozens, in an often dazzling extended call-and-response pattern suggestive of two dueling horns in an after-hours gig at a jazz club...
...namely its pilots? The June 1 crash of Flight 1420 in Little Rock bookended a six-year period in which American jets were involved in six accidents ?- two of them accounting for 171 deaths ?- more than any other domestic carrier. Federal investigators are now looking for a pattern, said NTSB spokesman Paul Turk, "to see if there is something we need to do." American?s pilots ?- who probably have the industry?s prickliest relationship with their management ?- have been only too happy to provide some usual suspects...