Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make a mockery of academic rigor, advance question exams reward sloth and punish initiative. If you've loyally gone to class, you can expect a crescendo of phone calls from distant acquaintances starting in reading period and culminating two days before the exam. After a day or two the pattern becomes recognizable...
Randy Shilts may change a few minds. Conduct Unbecoming submerges the reader in case histories about humiliation and injustice suffered by homosexual men and women in the U.S. armed forces. The pattern of abuse is so predictable that Shilts needs to break each story into episodes that are then staggered throughout the book. The device defers predictability and allows the author to insert repeatedly his two main points: first, that homosexuals can soldier as well as heterosexuals, and, second, that the military has always been more concerned with appearances than with reality...
Fitzsimmons acknowledges that studies on the SAT show that certain ethnic groups and students of poorer socio-economic background have a pattern of lower average scores...
...just got a written warning because I've been out seven days," Dean said. "I've got letters from the doctor, but they don't want those. They say I'm setting up a pattern...
...adult family members had developed the disease. By comparing the DNA of the 40-odd family members who had tumors with the DNA of those who did not, the researchers hoped to detect a particular stretch of genes that could be linked to the disease. Such a unique pattern, called a genetic marker, would be a major step toward identifying the specific culprit gene. After discarding 344 potential markers, the scientists finally found one that fit the bill...