Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Lesin-ski, is a Democrat). It erases Michigan's strangling short-term-debt limit of $250,000 by authorizing short-term borrowing of up to about $70 million. And it provides for combining the state government's bewildering jumble of 120 administrative segments in a manageable pattern of 20 agencies...
...break up that pattern, the ordinance banned "discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry" in all housing transactions, including mortgage loans. It provided for a board to investigate complaints and, if private persuasion fails, to order corrective action. Anybody found guilty by a court of violating a board order could be jailed for six months, fined...
Unless the pattern is to be repeated all over when the new contracts expire on April 1. 1965. it is obvious that something must be done to overhaul bargaining techniques. But for the time being, the publishers are far less worried about what might happen two years from now than about what their circulation will be to morrow. And they have cause for concern. Even without the normal attrition in readership caused by a lengthy strike, the Times and Trib figure to suffer some losses as a result of their new 10? prices. When Manhattan's afternoon papers went...
...picture, an electric current is shot through the film for one hundredth of a second. This jolt of juice generates just enough heat to soften the plastic. The electric charges are able to squeeze closer together, dimpling the softened material, which instantly cools and solidifies. The result is a pattern of varying thickness that matches the pattern of light and darkness that made up the original image on the film...
...anthropology, Mrs. Carter's guided tour of the Pasadena paradise is indeed fascinating. The pattern of the perfect life is disturbed by nothing but slight cases of alcoholism or mismating outside the tribe. Mother worries that Decker might get hooked on a starlet and bring on Jerry Giesler with a paternity case. Sister has already married a mathematician from Cal Tech, who appears to her as a wonderful being, "exotic and remote as a maharajah"-but who makes less money than the gardener. Decker's father-still hung up on a bogus buddyhood with war cronies...