Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their thrust. In essence, he has changed the bill so as to allow the states more leeway in controlling their own civil rights conflicts, and to bar possibly overzealous federal officials?such as an Attorney General?from charging in and initiating civil rights suits without first establishing a "pattern" of discrimination. On both sides of the Senate aisle, almost everyone agrees that Dirksen's proposed amendments vastly improved the House-passed bill...
Nightmarish though it was, the experience of Nick Philippides and How ard Weiner took on its real significance as part of a bigger pattern-a wave of terrorism on the trains. Within 96 hours of the Kings Highway station outbreak, these incidents also took place...
...dancer and sometime choreographer. Five years later, critics were calling him "the young hope of British choreography." Later, as a choreographer with the Royal Ballet, he carved a reputation for uncommon versatility and invention. But always he nurtured a burning itch to discover and develop a new "pattern of movement and expression which already is deeply ingrained into the matrix of our artistic experience and potential." He longed for his own ballet company, and when he got an invitation from Stuttgart five years ago, Cranko leaped at the opportunity...
...editor learned to quail. "My legs are very weak, but I still have something in the way of a head. I am still headstrong, and self-willed at that. I will try to make you a speech. Many shrewd observers will say that I have not had any pattern or continuous theme in my long life. Certainly I have. But I have never been a successful leader. I have always been an apprentice...
...suit for another 90 days to let local officials or the federal commission try again to resolve the matter. The court could also authorize the Attorney General to intervene in the suit. But the Attorney General could not initiate a suit himself unless he could show that a pattern of job discrimination existed in the community. Dirksen would require the plaintiff to prove that the violation had been "intentional...