Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bethesda Naval Hospital (he has not yet made clear where he will seek medical care). "It's not any one thing that makes us distrust Clinton. It's the accumulation," says a Navy officer. "At a certain point, every little thing starts to be viewed as part of the pattern...
...They are not being called in on their sick days...I'd like to have someone show me one instance," Berry said in an interview. "We are toughening up on people with excessive absenteeism...When there's a pattern established, then we warn them...
...explosives-unit chief at the FBI laboratory in Washington, says the presence of nitrates in the rubble was "meaningless"; nitrates are contained in exhaust fumes, paint, cleaning materials, foodstuffs and many other substances. Nonetheless, his best guess is that the explosive was in fact dynamite or something similar; the pattern of blast damage is more consistent with dynamite than with the plastic explosives often favored by terrorists. Fox also believes that "the velocity of the blast indicates that ((the explosive)) is in the dynamite family, which includes TNT and the so- called witches' brew of fertilizer and fuel oil. Most...
...report in Nature suggests that such thinking is a myth. British scientists studied the pattern of soil erosion in the Patzcuaro basin, an area of southwestern Mexico that was a center of pre-Hispanic civilization. Sediment samples from the lake revealed that erosion rates were at least as high before as after the Spaniards' arrival. In fact, erosion appears to have fallen off after the conquest. The conclusion: a return to traditional farming methods is no guarantee of a return to Eden...
...showing a marked early-1993 slowdown was no surprise, it was no cause for joy either. January numbers showing the sharpest plunge in new-home sales in 11 years might be shrugged off, since winter housing figures are notoriously unreliable. Slow February sales by major retail chains are a pattern worsened this year by storms. Drops in January factory orders, the late-February selling pace of new cars and an increase in first-time claims for unemployment insurance were not so easily dismissed. One bit of consolation: the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point in February...