Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things could be more unsettling than the vision of Arabs and Israelis-or for that matter, Arabs and Arabs-rattling rockets at each other. But after a twelve-year limitation on major military aid to any Middle Eastern state, the U.S. broke the pattern by announcing that it would sell Israel a consignment of Hawk missiles. The professed reason: to offset Communist military aid to the Arab nations. Actually, the situation has not substantially changed since the 1960 pact between Nasser and the Soviet Union, which gave Egypt 60 Ilyushin jet bombers, several squadrons of new MIG-21 fighters...
...Greek agreement is likely to provide the basic pattern for other underdeveloped countries. Under its terms, the Six gave Greece-whose per-capita income is only one-quarter of Luxembourg's, the Market's smallest member-22 years to catch up to the Market industrially, at the end of which, if all goes well, it can make the transition to full membership...
Some of the differences of opinion resulted from the fact that Carnegie Hall has provided New Yorkers-and indeed much of the musical world-with a standard of sound since 1891. The sound of Philharmonic Hall is cut more nearly to the pattern of modern taste-with less ambiance, more clarity and definition. It might take engineers time to tune it and audiences time to become attuned. But even in its first week, it clearly had the sound of a great concert hall...
...laid blame at management's door. By yielding to incessant labor demands, said the report, the press only perpetuates the very extravagance and waste that spell financial disaster. Said the report darkly: if Fleet Street's willingness to go along with union featherbedding "were to form the pattern for all industries, it would be disastrous to the economy of the nation." The commission urged publishers to stiffen their resistance to labor, even suggested a way: the same united-front defense that prevails in many U.S. cities, where, by management agreement, all papers stop publishing when one is struck...
...meet will be run in the usual pattern of a two-division regatta, with one boat from each college sailing in each of two separate heats, for a total of 16 races. Boats will score one point for starting, one for finishing and one for each boat beaten...