Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the data does not provide any overwhelming pattern separating the natural sciences, social sciences and fine arts, it does offer a snapshot of student experience from department to department...
Intrigued, Winson broadened his analysis, and discovered a pattern of perfection that featured other strange connections...
...recent grape debate is only an extreme example of this persistent pattern. As the Wall Street Journal noted in its December 10 article on the Harvard grape controversy, "The recent ferment at Harvard is odd, if only because the grape boycott had pretty much died on the vine elsewhere." In fact, the grape boycotts (1967-70, 1973-78) succeeded, leading one to wonder why were we still at it only a week...
...both Colbert and the Philadelphia police department, a nightmare was about to begin. Before it was over, it would expose a pattern of corruption that would bring down nine Philadelphia cops, implicate scores of others and eventually lead to the freeing of 160 wrongfully convicted prisoners, all victims of a web of misdeeds masquerading as heroic police work...
...leading commanders to a logical conclusion; this was no time for a cover-up. So they released photos of Ryan and Blondie, who had been suspended during the probe, to local newspapers. A flood tide followed. Complaints about the cops' behavior inundated the department and the press. The pattern of abuse was clear, and the stories from the neighborhood spurred on the investigation that would eventually result in the jailing of Blondie and four associates. The five pleaded guilty without a trial. The government urged leniency--the cops had confessed to more crimes than anyone suspected, and implicated more than...