Word: pattern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there was really a pervasive pattern of discrimination that was leaving an extraordinary number of high-quality potential candidates behind,” Summers said, “one suspects that in the highly competitive academic marketplace, there would be more examples of institutions that succeeded substantially by working to fill...
While the initial remarks at the meeting reflected concerns over his January speech, professors eventually raised older individual grievances, stressing a pattern of reckless leadership...
...think one of the things that resonated for a lot of people in the room was concern about a pattern in which the president says or does something reckless and then apologizes,” the professor said...
...SPEECH, PRESIDENT BUSH PRAISED DNA EXONERATIONS AND CALLED FOR MONEY TO TRAIN DEFENSE ATTORNEYS IN CAPITAL CASES. DO YOU FEEL REASSURED? Hardly. See how many people in Texas can get access to DNA evidence even today. And in Texas, attorneys are appointed by judges. You can look at the pattern of judges appointing over and over again the same attorneys [whose clients] almost always get the death penalty. Honestly, it's hard to look at [Bush's] face on television because everything he says is so untruthful...
...when I returned to Cambridge after winter break, I found myself questioning for the first time my color-blind dating style. I was sliding smoothly back into the pattern my grandfather had warned me about. Why, I wondered, was it so easy? I’ve never even had a serious conversation about race with any of my boyfriends. Shouldn’t race be more of an issue? It’s an especially difficult question for me because, until coming to Harvard, I didn’t know a single interracial couple. At Harvard, on the other hand...