Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue that really resonates in the South, where a lot of black churches were burned during the civil rights movement in the 1960's. Southerners are certainly pleased with the decision to investigate, but it's too early to tell whether these burnings are part of any racially-motivated pattern...
...Admissions decisions are not isolated, atomistic events," Rudenstine says in his report. "They focus on individuals, but each decision is made in the context of others, where the pattern of the whole is also taken into account...
...Pliny pattern persists. The scientific side of the observer's mind demands objective evidence, as the great naturalist usually did; but the brain's mythopoeic, magic-thinking side is lured to marvels--to alchemy, to spells, to bat people on the moon or aliens on other planets. Can these matters be addressed with a whole mind? Can the two instincts of the brain--Einstein and Elvis-sighting--be made to fit together like compatible spoons...
...think the administration...does anything and everything to avoid controversy," says Skocpol, who chairs an FAS ad hoc committee on public service. "I admire Harry Lewis greatly for not falling into the pattern of leadership evasion...
...Corvey-Price report illustrates a continuation of Dunlop's earlier pattern. According to the report, the University's exempt staff grew annually by 2.9 percent between...