Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...power to move legislators to action. And while they would be horrified at the thought, the students-says Harvard Professor Seymour Lipset-learned their tactics from the white Southerners who used civil disobedience to protest the 1954 Supreme Court decision for desegregation of schools. Out of this developed the pattern of sit-ins, lie-ins, marches and some violence. After civil rights, the second issue was Viet Nam. This was not merely a question of sticking up for somebody else; the draft made it a highly personal issue for many students. They did not like the prospect of getting shot...
...movie houses became more addictive than Frito's. In 1952, Sack found himself again in another project. This time he was to re-open the defunct Beacon Hill. Days before his first Boston opening, the other investors pulled out. Sack hung on and ended up in the black. The pattern became a familiar one. Choose an unsuccessful or closed theatre, buy it, refurbish it, re-open it. With standardized procedures and good publicity, Ben Sack began to make good...
...share to the process of erosion. He has lined the beaches with hotels, apartments and roads, leveled the high dunes that blocked his view, thus stripping them of their protective grasses. Navigational jetties, jutting into the sea to protect shipping at river mouths, and man-made inlets change the pattern of offshore currents and block the littoral flow of sand to downdrift beaches, literally starving them out. There is no easy way to combat erosion. All along the Atlantic, communities have lined their beaches with "groins" (short jetties) in hopes of trapping the sand before it can be carried away...
...large segment of U.S. business was doing better and better. Observers were quick to point out that during the first three months of 1968, wages rose faster than prices, a situation that points to a profit squeeze ahead. And the returns were not yet complete enough to set a pattern in any major industry. Still, the statistics suggested that business made impressive gains compared to the recession-tinged first quarter of 1967. A sampling...
...action. Approval of the CAB's full five-member board and the President is required before Park's decision becomes final, but the $23,700-a-year examiner's 215-page recommendation gave the front runners a long lead on what Park called "the basic pattern in the Pacific for the next ten years or more." What they stand...