Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pace. What makes that perform ance all the more impressive is the fact that Lego thrives in the fad-ridden toy industry with just one main product line: construction kits consisting of interlocking, precision-molded plastic blocks that can be fashioned into almost any shape or mosaiclike pattern...
...battle, rank as some of the best war correspondence of all time. The very flaws and inconsistencies that he displayed during those years would, as Troyat notes, "later enable him to embrace the attitudes of each of his characters in turn with equal sincerity." Indeed, contradiction was a pattern that grew and intensified throughout Tolstoy's life: he was a great artist who denounced art, a nobleman who yearned to be a peasant, a preacher of humility who considered himself only once removed from Christ, a seeker of praise who dismissed it with an almost superstitious fear, an antimaterialist...
Rudolph began the much-damned new pattern as a temporary measure last summer, to allow construction of the Cambridge St. underpass. The rotary is unpopular with residents of streets bordering on the Common, and the Council has told the traffic director to revert to the former pattern as soon as possible...
...last night that "This man [Rudolph] doesn't seem to know what he wants to do." According to Mahoney, Rudolph told MBTA officials that the rotary would be permanent, not temporary. The MBTA then spent $8,000 to change switches for their trackless trolleys to conform with the new pattern. It will now cost them another $10,000 to change the switches back...
...added that Rudolph had not yet given "any concrete indication" of compliance with another City Council order telling him to find a compromise traffic pattern for the Harvard-Brattle Square area. According to Mahoney, the traffic director told Harvard Square businessmen that he would keep the new pattern despite the Council's order...