Word: patterning
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Prevailing Pattern. In Vermont, where the town of Stratton (pop. 24) once had equal representation with Burlington (pop. 35,531), a reapportioned legislature has abolished the poll tax, approved a capital-gains tax and passed the first deficit budget in the state's history. In Maryland, where suburban representatives have replaced many small-county lawmakers, a graduated income tax, a fair-housing law and the state's first billion-dollar budget have been adopted (TIME, April...
...streets 24 hours a day, dumped thousands of tons of fill from the subway excavation into the river, extended the mud flat that was the He Sainte-Hélène and created the He Notre Dame, which became Expo's major sites. New bridges, a spaghetti pattern of elevated highways, and a theater complex, Place des Arts, were constructed. To provide an upstream system of ice control, Expo masterminds even built a 6,693-ft. ice boom to keep thundering tons of springtime floes from smashing into the new islands...
...pattern of voting reflects the realities-and the hopes-of the war in Viet Nam (see map). No voting is being attempted in areas held by the Viet Cong or strongly influenced by the Communists. The provinces with the highest percentage of villages participating are naturally those areas strongly secured by Saigon and the U.S. Allied control and influence are greatest in the areas of largest population density in South Viet Nam. But with commendable caution, Saigon is holding elections only where the safety of the voters from reprisals can be reasonably assured. Thus only about half of the nation...
...week's end a relatively consistent pattern of first-quarter results could be charted. While such industries as aerospace, electronics, office equipment and banking were holding their own, automakers-plus the aligned producers of rubber and steel-were reporting weakened earnings. Overall, White House economists are using a $46 billion annual rate as the best guess for first-quarter profits-a $2,000,000,000 drop from the last quarter...
...says, but from how it says it. In McLuhan's words, the medium is the message. And the electronic message is turning everything upside down. When we relied on our eyes we needed straight lines. But the television mosaic has destroyed the line and replaced it with the pattern. All of our lines are doomed. The book-age line on the backs of women's stockings has already disappeared because of television. Yet until recently, even in the face of such total upheaval, we refused to study television as a medium, and had no understanding of its effects. McLuhan...