Word: patterning
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With that same decree, though, Constantine set a pattern for future blue laws: he made an exception. He said that farm people might work on Sunday to take advantage of fair weather. Ever since, every blue law seems inevitably to have picked up similar variations. In the U.S., state legislatures have repeatedly yielded to various business groups that wanted to be exempted from Sunday closing. As a result U.S. blue laws are riddled with erratic contradictions. In Pennsylvania it is legal to sell a bicycle on Sunday, but not a tricycle; in Massachusetts it is against the law to dredge...
...truce will settle little beyond what sums are involved. Both sides fear that yielding in the first test of Common Market agricultural protectionism would set a pattern for the later and larger decisions about wheat, corn, sorghum and rice. The Europeans stipulated that the panel's fact findings are not to be legally binding; the panel will not even consider possible remedies for the lost U.S. chicken business. Still, optimists hope that during the truce, both sides may find it easier to make concessions...
...real issue, in considering the collegiate education of students who are preparing for a vocation or a profession," writes Conant, "is whether as much as one or two years of collegiate work can be permitted to be spread over a wide range of subjects, in no necessarily coherent pattern, entirely at the students choice...
Joining the Chorus. Suddenly, every youngster old enough to hold a football wanted to be a Y. A. Tittle or a Johnny Unitas. "They see the pros on TV," says Iowa Coach Jerry Burns, "and they pattern themselves after the glamour boys. Nobody wants to be a Rosie Grier or a Big Daddy Lipscomb." Conditioned by the heart-stopping excitement of the pro game, fans implored college coaches to pass, pass, pass. At least one university head joined the chorus. Chancellor Edward Litchfield of the University of Pittsburgh ordered Pitt Coach John Michelosen to open up. "Three things I find...
...dresses themselves were completely ritualistic, and bore little, if any, resemblance to normal or rational attire. All were of one pattern, save only for those of the leader and under leaders. Each was designed to combine a strictly regulated minimum of decorum with yet a more than adequate hint of charm and personality undisclosed. The vivid colours, the high piled coiffures, on which many hours of preparation had been lavised, primping and setting each curly ringlet in place with preparations of rancid butter, wax and oil; the fantastic feathered headdress of the "magajiya" (leader of the female dancers), the throb...