Word: pattern
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...Racism reflects a pattern of behavior orconduct," Epps told The Crimson in 1980. "We didnot find that here. But because of theundercurrent of tension, the environment is loadedwith misperceptions...
...Another setback is the shrinking academic marketplace," Wolff says. "In 1994, the federal law which required retirement for academicians will expire, aggravating an already dismal hiring pattern caused by the recession...
...Racism reflects a pattern of behavior orconduct," Epps told The Crimson in 1980. "We didnot find that here. But because of theundercurrent of tension, the environment is loadedwith misperceptions...
...Lyonel Feininger as well; several of his images of black Southern life from the early '40s have a wonderful amplitude and strictness of construction that hold their vivid colors together with a sort of consuming, sad energy. They are the blues, in paint. Everything seems right about the pattern of Sowing (circa 1940): the fierce orange and yellow stripes, the eccentric placement and displacement of shape, the not quite naive use of repetition and rhyme, even the comic-strip blue cabin and the Looney Tunes mule. And The Breakdown (circa 1940-41), showing a sharecropper's feet protruding from beneath...
...months after the war was over. Even more startling: parts of the gulf were actually cleaner after the war than before. Oysters caught off the coast of Bahrain, about halfway down the gulf, had lower levels of petroleum contamination than in the mid-1980s. Offshore sediments showed the same pattern. The probable explanation: sharply reduced tanker traffic more than made up for the effects of the war-related spills...