Word: pattern
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Then there is the discomfiting pattern that, though men are three times as likely as women to commit suicide, so far all of Dr. Kevorkian's suicide patients have been female. It's not that he has any special fondness for watching women die, but rather, he has explained, because "women are just far more realistic about facing death and have got the guts to do it." Kevorkian considers his treatment a form of toughlove. He recalls his first client, ^ Janet Adkins, a vibrant 54-year-old just diagnosed with Alzheimer's who sought out Kevorkian because she was terrified...
...Carey's first moves as boss was to install William Genoese, a Teamsters official with a dubious background, as the head of a Mob- controlled airport-workers local in New York City. Lacey vetoed Carey's selection, calling Genoese "unbelievably oblivious" to corruption and citing his lengthy pattern of nepotism and misuse of union funds. "If even a casual look had been taken at Genoese's background, you would have known that this was a terrible mistake," says Lacey. "And Mr. Carey knew that." Moreover, the Mafia apparently likes Genoese: earlier this year, a former Lucchese crime boss testified about...
From the beginning of the 1992 campaign, Clinton challenged certain aspects of George Bush's foreign policy but chose to concentrate on the economy. He has followed the same pattern during the transition, publicly approving Bush's decision to send U.S. troops to Somalia. Bush is still in office and Clinton without responsibility, so that seemed the proper path and the safest one politically. Nevertheless, the accretion of decisions in Somalia and the Balkans may already be serious enough to box in the new Administration from the day it takes office...
...there is to be a U.N.-centered world order, the U.S. should be willing to send its soldiers into humanitarian efforts as well as those that serve national interests, such as Desert Storm. But for this kind of military intervention on behalf of suffering people to become an accepted pattern in the world community, the test case must succeed. If the U.S. gets stuck in the anarchy of Somalia, or if it departs in haste, leaving renewed chaos and starvation behind, such principled actions will look much less acceptable in the future...
...Balkan commando-psychiatrist, explains, "This war is a continuation of World War II -- the same families, the same revenge." Everyone agrees about that. After the war, Tito and communism merely suppressed the blood hatreds. Tribal memory and the fierce dynamic of revenge went into a kind of holding pattern for nearly 50 years. With the collapse of communism, all the terrible deeds committed during World War II (and World War I, for that matter) came streaming back, demanding vengeance. The Croats' alliance with Hitler, and the savage enthusiasm of the Croatian ultra- nationalist organization Ustashi in slaughtering Serbs from...