Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...absorbing all of this intensity, wondering what message the Forum was sending to me. Chase Manhattan Bank, First Boston Investment Banking, IDS Financial Services--there certainly were a lot of big names here to harvest Harvard's most-eager. Merrill Lynch, Corporate Decisions, Price Waterhouse--was I detecting a pattern? Goldman Sachs, Fidelity Management, Boston Consulting--hold on. I stopped to get a list of exactly who was wooing and being wooed by Harvard's ripest undergraduates. The companies were grouped by field, with consulting, financial services, and investment banking making up almost two thirds of the attendees. The remaining...
Although many of the film's separate sequences return, creating a pattern rather than a random assortment, the repetition of similar scenes ultimately loses its appeal...
Reardon said he did not think there was a pattern of burned buildings owned by Rothman. "If it was a pattern we would have seen it long ago," Reardon said...
...course, one of the most familiar ones is the pattern, probably unique to college campuses, which attends the opening of plays. A poster screams out in a bold font, "Random vaguely sexually suggestive quote," followed in small print by the date and time of the play, as if some unintentional Victorian double-entendre is enough to send sex-starved Harvard students running to see whatever amateur production is listed. Please! We might not have cable TV, but if we want to see more-than-vague suggestion we can always just flip on NYPD Blue...
...watch the Harvard teams, "ruck over Columbia," (or whoever the opponent of the week is). The humor, I suppose, derives from the provocative fact that the word "ruck" rhymes with the American colloquialism which connotes copulation. Unfortunately, most people have, since elementary school, exhausted the possibilities that this rhyme pattern offers--with words such as duck, truck, luck, puck, muck, and suck, many of which are even commonly used in America...