Word: pattern
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...City busing program that began in 1972, nine years after a finding that both schools and housing in the city were intentionally segregated. In 1985 the Oklahoma City board adopted a policy that ended busing for kindergarten through fourth grade in favor of attendance at neighborhood schools. Single-race patterns of enrollment re- emerged in some neighborhoods; 11 of the city's 64 schools now have student bodies that are 90% or more black. Local civil rights leaders argued that the pattern was proof that the original desegregation program failed. School-board attorneys claimed that the racially unbalanced schools were...
...ways. As of Jan. 1, a new set of rules put a virtual gag on attorneys pushing their services on the tube. They are forbidden to use dramatic scenes, slogans, endorsements from clients, plugs from celebrities, moving pictures -- in short, just about anything of greater interest than a test pattern. To top it off, such commercials have to include a disclaimer warning potential customers that they shouldn't be picking attorneys through TV ads in the first place. The Florida Bar Association, which developed the rules, says the dial- a-lawyer ads mislead consumers and influence juries by creating...
Paradigm has become a buzz word for theorists of the emerging world. The term, from the Greek paradeigma, means an example, a model, a pattern. People in business schools, in think tanks, in the White House, use paradigm as a sort of reality thresher -- a way of comparing past and present, an implement for sorting out history at a moment of tumbling global change. Paradigm is a buzz word that does not sing, of course, but never mind. Buzz words, being often tricky, insincere or brainless, are part of the Old Paradigm anyway...
Interstate banking. The White House would permit banks to open branches across state lines and thereby create nationwide networks of loans and deposits. While most states permit some form of interstate banking, their separate policies subject banks to a crazy-quilt pattern of rules and regulations...
...says, should "absolutely" get further treatment. But one genetic abnormality is not enough to transform healthy, law-abiding breast cells into anarchic tumors. "The genes responsible for this disease are like pieces of a patchwork quilt," says geneticist Mary- Claire King of the University of California, Berkeley. The patchwork pattern may vary from one woman to the next, but each case probably involves five or six separate mutations occurring over a period of years...