Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SALT LAKE CITY: It was an incredibly difficult play, but one that John Stockton and Karl Malone have made seem easy over the past 12 years. Down one with under a minute to play, Stockton rebounded a Michael Jordan miss and threw a full-court post pattern that just got over a lunging Jordan and settled into Malone's hands. Amazing pass, easy basket. And just like that, the Jazz had the lead in a game they desperately needed to win but looked certain to lose. Down four with under two minutes left to play, the Jazz scored the last...
...have a lot of freedom in how we distribute work, in what we read, in how we teach a lesson, in how to write an introduction," Fernald says. "There's no set pattern for that and yet there is a lot of discussion within the program of ways...
...transplanted. When a Virginia sotweed planter in 1750 wanted a portrait of his successful self, he chose an artist who could do a passable version of what was fashionable in England and hung it in the saloon of a house whose Anglo-Palladian design had been based on a pattern book by the English architect James Gibbs...
...documents show, investigations were flimsy, and perpetrators received light punishment or were shifted to other locations or quietly eased out. Only once in the reports did a commander question the wisdom of allowing recruiters guilty of such wrongdoing to continue in the field. "We have a perceived behavioral pattern of sexual harassment against female applicants," he wrote...
Please don't squeeze the...Penrose Pattern? Makers of toilet tissue trumpet their product's softness, durability and economy, but what about a white embossed paper, above left, that both celebrates the solution to one of the great conundrums of modern science and appears bulkier despite using 15% less paper? In 1974, Sir Roger Penrose, the esteemed Oxford mathematician, devised a geometric pattern--dubbed the Penrose Pattern--that demonstrated for the first time that a nonrepeating pattern could exist in nature, above right. Then one day Sir Roger noticed that the design on a roll of Kleenex quilted toilet tissue...