Word: pattern
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...pattern in Stevenson's life was the presence of a powerful controlling figure -his childhood nurse, his father-despite whose efforts he did more or less what he pleased. R.L.S. disguised the extent of his freethinking from his father, a decent and literate man of burgherlike propriety who increased or shut down financial support according to his opinion of his son's escapades and his view of the moral tone of his literary production. Subsidies were necessary; the young writer produced an astonishing flow of work, especially for a chronic consumptive, but the serialization rights to Treasure Island, for instance...
...interview two years ago this month,McCombe said police officials, in concert with thegeneral counsel's office, had engaged in a"pattern" of retaliation against securityemployees. He said officials routinely dealt withworkers who complained about favoritism byexaggerating disciplinary claims against them...
...currently popular genetic model of mental disorder has much hearsay but little scientific evidence to support it. Never has any identifiable inheritance pattern--certainly not a straightforward, classical (Mendelian) one--been documented for any disorder or behavioral trait, including manic-depressive illness (MDI); every much-ballyhooed claim for "genetic markers" of MDI has been quietly retracted as a result of further unbiased scientific study. A renowned geneticist, Harvard's Evan Balaban, terms "behavioral genetics" research a "hierarchy of worthlessness...
...these tales of woe to five Harvard losses when tied at the half, and three more Crimson defeats after leading with under five minutes to play, and a clear pattern emerges. One is reminded of the young Ivan Lendl before he beat John McEnroe by coming back from two sets down in the 1984 finals of the French Open--talent to take the early lead, but lacking the intangibles to close...
Many people have been living in the samerent-controlled apartments for years, Pitkin says.When housing prices rise, those people will leave,returning Cambridge to the "pattern of short-termresidents" that characterized the Square beforerent control took effect in the early 1970s...