Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the pattern of history, though, Harvard (2-6 overall, 2-3 Ivy) probably has a better chance of knocking off the Quakers than it has all season. This week, the Crimson has momentum...
...think there's a pattern here of cavalierdisregard for the outside world," Gordon said."They would seem to be most comfortable withgiving out the minimum possible information thatthey possibly can get away with, and I think thatthis is a very damaging course of action becausein doing so they avoid accountability to theoutside Harvard community...
...Perot accused Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, of a nefarious cover-up. In running his successful computer empire, Perot occasionally subjected employees to polygraph tests. Last week seven defectors from his volunteer network charged that they had been targets of improper credit investigations. This pattern is familiar to those who worked with Perot long before he grew politically ambitious. "He keeps so much in his head," says a former business associate of Perot's. "You can never figure what he's up to. He says someone called him ((to supply intelligence)), or that...
...Bush, visibly elated and upbeat after his strong showing in the third debate, addressing cheering crowds, hammering home with new fire and focus his message that voters should not entrust their government to a small-state Democratic Governor whose public policies and statements, Bush charged repeatedly, amounted to "a pattern of deception." But the President was saying these things in places like North and South Carolina, New Jersey, Florida -- states that have been secure Republican bastions during recent national elections. Campaigning so late in the race on formerly safe turf suggested, despite all the attendant euphoria, a certain desperation among...
...organized, late appointing James Baker to pull his floundering campaign together, late settling on a theme -- a good three months behind on almost everything. In contrast to the lift Clinton got out of the Democratic Convention, Bush got almost none from the Republican meeting. In fact, August set a pattern that held until almost the end of the fall campaign and very nearly turned it from main event to nonevent. Right through the first two debates the story was Clinton holding a big lead, Bush flailing about futilely in an attempt to catch...