Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When most of us got here, that pattern continued. We quickly filled our schedules to the brim, packing them with comps and shows and political study groups, figuring that academia would always be there for us, but that we needed to seize these fleeting extracurricular opportunities...
...each store there is a very similar traffic pattern: Harvard students coming and going until 2 or 2:30 a.m., occasional homeless persons wandering in between 3 and 5 and the office crowd starting...
...pattern has become familiar: every week now, it seems, we meet another businessman who wanted a favor from the White House and was willing to pay for it. And every week we learn more about a White House willing to place politics before policy. Just when it began to look as if the scandal was mainly about Chinese influence peddling, it turns out that all kinds of hustlers could descend on the White House like gamblers to Vegas, feeling lucky. It didn't matter if the player was a global wheeler-dealer like Tamraz, whom Interpol wanted to question...
...legal landscape," First Amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams told the Journal. Dow Jones has $45 million in libel coverage for this case. Because libel law puts a heavy burden of proof on the accuser, most awards are reduced or thrown out on appeal, and the Journal is hoping that pattern holds. "We were chronicling the difficulties of this company; we did not cause them," managing editor Paul Steiger said in a statement...
...Meyerson says. The education offered by the top schools, he argues, is much better, with more courses, bigger libraries, more sophisticated research laboratories. As a nation, he says, "we have the best educational pattern in the world...But having said that, there's no reason why we cannot have a better ratio of benefits to costs...