Word: pattern
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...EXPERTS. If the abuse case comes to trial, expert witnesses will be asked to fit Jackson's public behavior to the psychograph of a child molester. "What we see in the pattern of a fixated offender," notes clinical psychologist Nicholas Groth, co-author of Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents, "is that he seems to get along well with people significantly older than him and those who are younger. He has a significant absence of peers. He lives more in the world of childhood than the adult world." And when the sex is gay, the offender is often homophobic, Groth...
Over the past generation, a clear pattern emerged: out of a terrible crime comes both a furious demand for gun control and a furious demand for guns. Rage over the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy prompted Congress to pass the Gun Control Act of 1968 -- which banned mail-order gun sales and regulated the interstate transportation of firearms but also produced the largest spike in gun sales recorded in American history. Sales of handguns doubled just before the new law took effect...
...committee is already $1,581 over itsbudget, said council Treasurer Rene Reyes '95.Still, financial concerns were disregarded as thecouncil continued its pattern of magnanimousgestures throughout the night...
...sense of empowerment that can leave unions with little role to play. "Labor's mentality is manifestly tied to the old workplace," says David Hale, chief economist for Chicago-based Kemper Securities. "The new industries in the U.S. are evolving so rapidly that there is no stable craft pattern for a union to represent...
...local health authorities ruled out severe flu and pneumonic plague -- the latter is endemic to the Southwest, and a few cases show up every year -- they turned to the CDC for help. Recalls Dr. C.J. Peters, chief of the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch: "It didn't fit the pattern of anything we'd seen, and all we could figure is that it was something brand...