Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guard, I think truth and justice are important," says guard Stephen G. McCombe, a union steward who has charged his superiors with engaging in a "pattern of retaliation...
Opportunistic or not, the up-and-out-quickly pattern exists in other organizations as well. Ahmad served as SAA co-president during his junior year, and Allen as BGLSA co-chair during her first and second years at Harvard...
...give it to my officers," Johnson said of a written policy on harassment proposed by students, "but I can't make them read it." This quickly became the pattern for addressing what became annual complaints of police harassment: talk with students, apologize, but avoid making any policy changes...
That vacillation fits a pattern. On the main foreign problem of his short tenure -- what to do about Bosnia -- the President has lurched forward and backtracked, leaving friend, foe and U.S. diplomats frustrated and angry. He began his term promising to help the Bosnian government fight Serb aggression. Then he agreed to use U.S. ground troops to enforce the Vance-Owen peace plan, which he and Christopher had previously denounced as a reward to the Serbs. Then, after weeks of public hand-wringing over Serb gains and promises to get tough, he settled on "lift and strike": lifting the arms...
...pattern of molestation was compounded by students' reports of shocking administrative negligence by friars at the school. Some of the allegations emerged in response to inquiries that the investigators mailed to alumni. But several students had leveled accusations while they were enrolled at St. Lawrence and the staff did little. Nor were the boys' parents typically notified. The sins of St. Lawrence were not random incidents, asserts Robert L. Elliott, an attorney representing several alleged victims. "It wasn't a guy or a couple of guys. It was a generation of guys. They treated this as a hunting preserve...