Word: pattern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many of those arrested were militants from western Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands who have flooded across the fallen Wall to pursue a radical political agenda in united Germany. The Berlin fighting was also part of a wider pattern of recent violence in eastern Germany, including football riots and beatings of foreigners by gangs of proto-Nazi skinheads. Many officials attribute the troubles to rising unemployment and a collapse of local authority -- dangerous new problems that are the dark side of East Germany's liberation from communism...
According to Kirkland House Economics Tutor Andrew P. Metrick, who played for Yale in the first tournament, this year's Crimson victory came as no surprise because the match has followed a persistent pattern since its inception. "The visiting team always loses," he said...
Levels of corporate debt tend to ebb and flow in a cyclical pattern. For the + moment, leverage is out of style. "Companies may have learned a valuable lesson," says William Rifkin, a managing director at Salomon Brothers, "but they're doomed to repeat the same mistakes in another 20 years." Maybe so, but that means the business managers who have survived the debt swamp will be unwilling to return to it until well into the next century...
...well as a piquant glimpse inside CBS's corporate culture. Especially poignant is Smith's description of the complex relationship between Paley and Frank Stanton, the longtime president and "conscience" of CBS, who was crushed when Paley cast him aside rather than accept him as successor. It was a pattern that would be repeated with one heir apparent after another. By the end of his reign, Smith says bluntly, Paley, well into his 80s, "had become an albatross for the network...
With the Crimson D digging in for the big play, Kehler dropped back and hit Ya-Sin Shabazz on a sideline pattern for 43 yards. On the very next play, Kehler high-stepped 23 yards to the 1. After a Yale motion penalty and an a pass that was ruled out of bounds, Kehler's option play widened the Elis' lead...