Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychologists therefore designed a test focused on the ability to discern and later recall the location of objects in a complex, random pattern. In series of tests, student volunteers were given a minute to study a drawing that contained such unrelated objects as an elephant, a guitar and a cat. Then Silverman and Eals presented their subjects with a second drawing containing additional objects and told them to cross out those items that had been added and circle any that had moved. Sure enough, the women consistently surpassed the men in giving correct answers...
...turmoil on two levels, one relatively superficial and the other much deeper. The surface layer is the most immediately painful one, a garden-variety recession of the sort that comes along every few years with the ups and downs of the business cycle. This one has brought the familiar pattern of layoffs and weak profits...
...cold war is over, and the good guys have won again. But can the winners this time break the pattern of the past? More to the point, will the U.S. take the lead in ensuring that the West does everything in its power to bring about a transition to democracies and free markets in Eurasia...
...charges come at a particularly inopportune time for the Governor, who has watched the state's economy continue to stumble, along with his own political fortunes: one new poll placed his approval rating at 29%, down from 40% in July. "The Symington suit puts Arizona in a political holding pattern," wrote Arizona Republic columnist Keven Willey. "Seems to me we've about run out of gas. Have we crashed...
...Anna's pattern is a common one, said Gilligan in a speech last night at Longfellow Hall that was part of a two-day conference on adolescent behavior...