Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...journalist who studies the flow of news on a thoughtful, long-range basis, nearly every week brings a new appreciation of sharp contrast in the pattern of events. Seldom has the sense of contrast been sharper than in two of the principal subjects dealt with in this issue of TIME...
...departure was widely construed by the New York press as the first step toward a strike, which Powers cannot call without a ratifying vote from his 2,700 men-a ballot that requires headquarters permission. But that was probably a misinterpretation. It overlooked two encouraging breaks in the pattern that led to the disastrous and costly shutdown...
Also, an amendment to the act requires that, in order to prove discrimination by individual businesses, a plaintiff must first demonstrate a pattern of discrimination in the area. "Thus, if all restaurants in Cambridge but one serve Negroes," he said, "that restaurant would not be acting in violation of the Civil Rights...
...piston-driven model that Eastern is phasing out-were 79 passengers and a crew of five. Airport, control-tower operators routinely told the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center on Long Island that Flight 663 was about to execute a "Dutch Seven Departure," a takeoff pattern designed to avoid New York City by making a series of turns over the Atlantic before the plane headed toward Richmond and points south...
...Duce himself followed the pattern when he took up with the beautiful Clara Petacci in place of his legal wife Rachele. It was in Clara's company that Mussolini was shot and hung by the heels by vengeful partisans. Italy's late Communist Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti left his wife to live openly with Comrade Leonilde Jotti; the couple even adopted a daughter. When Togliatti died last summer, Leonilde marched behind the coffin, while Signora Togliatti got lost in the crowd...