Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have had a very rocky history of neighborhoods fighting development," Duehay says. "If we continue the pattern, we're going to lose the kind of development that we want and the kind of jobs that we want...
...Blunting," or smoking cigars laced with marijuana, is not a new practice but is a current trend among high school youths in the Boston area, according to the alliance. And local police, local stores and the task force said the pattern has reached Cambridge...
Finally, the behavior of Marius in thesecircumstances is part of a pattern of intimidationand retaliation against teachers who challenge hisauthority...
...pattern of friction be broken? Clinton expressed "deep regret" over China's decision to explode a nuclear weapon, and then announced that the U.S. Department of Energy would prepare for the resumption of U.S. atomic testing. As for Hong Kong, Governor Patten's implied threat to go ahead with reform that Beijing has said it will ignore can only set the stage for more confrontation. Even before the Governor's speech, China had issued a statement that reiterated Deng's 11-year-old threat to retake Hong Kong before 1997 should Britain create "serious disturbances," such as going ahead with...
Complexity theory holds that even the wildest disorder may eventually cohere into a pattern -- as when the teeming molecules of the young earth united in the arrangement that became life...