Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite another. Though Rumania has yet to employ such capitalist devices as profit incentives and supply-demand marketing, Poland and Hungary are working in that direction. But it is East Germany and Czechoslovakia that lead the region in dynamic planning. Long dogmatic in its imitation of the Soviet pattern, the Czech party last December took...
Austria's two major political parties have ruled the country in a "black and red" coalition ever since World War II, mainly because neither could win enough seats in Parliament to rule alone. Last week's election was expected to follow the pattern. Instead, something quite startling happened: losing two seats, the "red" Socialists' parliamentary delegation fell to 74, while the "black" People's Party increased its number of seats by four to 85-an absolute majority in the 165-seat Parliament...
Holography Handicaps. To pluck a hologram and release its light waves, a laser beam is passed through it. As the laser beam hits the hologram's interference pattern, it is diffracted into light waves that duplicate those that were reflected from the subject. The viewer sees the subject of the picture in three dimensions, apparently suspended behind the hologram at the same distance it was from the sheet of film...
...physiological need for narcotics, however, is only one of the many things that hook a user. The two other major contributors are the user's psychological makeup and his conditioned behavioral pattern-the strong likelihood that a return to old haunts and old friends will ease the post-addict back into old habits. Cyclazocine has no psychological effects, but Jaffe and Brill wondered if it were not possible to use it to help break behavioral patterns. They decided to try it on outpatients on the theory that when an addict's surroundings led him to take dope...
...alltime high of 5½% . That announcement hit at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 10, and by closing time at 3:30 the New York Stock Exchange floor was still a scene of frantic selling activity. Within little more than an hour after Morgan Guaranty's pattern-setting declaration, the Dow-Jones industrial average fell from a plus of more than seven points to a minus...