Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team's tendency to blow a good lead right at the end of a game has been attributed to Wilson's defensive pattern, an exacting man to-man switch. The tactics work well enough when the players are fresh, but as they begin to tire the switching slows down, often leaving the opposition time to get in a short jump shot...
Cooperation. With this credo, La Générale has built up a 15-ft. by 45-ft. library of stock certificates, which represent effective control of corporations worth $1 billion to $2 billion. Through a pattern of interlocking directorates as intricate as a piece of Brussels lace, La Générale controls 10% of Belgium's economic life-including one-third of its steel and coal production, three-quarters of its nonferrous metals output, and chunks of its banking, electricity, transport and armaments. With a bare 17% of its investments...
...McCarthy of The Company She Keeps (1942), with its heroine's interminable self-dissection and motive-mongering after making love in a Pullman car with "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt." This famous sketch, which had run previously in the Partisan Review, established her reputation and set the pattern for the heroine of her subsequent novels...
Full of other surprises, Rice is so selfeffacing that it has yet to hire a fulltime campus pressagent. Scorning fraternities, it has five residential colleges (one for women) that mix students and faculty on a pattern drawn from Oxford and Yale. All of Rice's classes are small; nearly all are taught by professors rather than graduate students. Among the school's half a dozen really top scholars, fields range from economics to history...
...most thrilling portion" of this project is creating the actual pattern of life for the inhabitants, he felt. Observing that the "average American child at the age of five is a complete wreck," Skinner said the child must be supervised 24 hours a day from birth...