Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) budget deficit, as a percentage of non-endowment expense, continued its four-year pattern of decrease this past fiscal year, reaching its lowest level in at least seven years...
...chess, a notoriously cerebral exercise, ever achieve the critical mass- market niche necessary to pay top players what they now think they are worth? To those who do not know the game, televised chess can seem slightly less enthralling than a test pattern. Despite all the hype, Kasparov and Short have not yet filled the Savoy to its 1,030-seat capacity. As both championship matches stretch on, and the war between FIDE and the top two players escalates, chess fans may come to wonder whether they are experiencing an embarrassment of riches or merely an embarrassment...
...Department of Transportation judge, citing a "pattern and practice of disobeying orders," ruled that Frank Lorenzo's proposed new airline, ATX, should not be allowed to fly. The airline industry's unions, who blame Lorenzo for the downfall of Eastern Airlines, led the fight against the start-up to keep their bitterest corporate antagonist out of the business...
...storyteller's ancient, changeless pattern develops, working as well in Denmark and Greenland as it did for Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California and for Martin Cruz Smith and the series that began with Gorky Park in Moscow. Smilla puts her nose in harm's way and gets it bloodied. Like Archer and like Smith's Russian cop Arkady Renko, she keeps on poking. She's in peril in a glossy casino near Copenhagen, on a powerful, mysteriously equipped icebreaker plowing north toward Greenland, on the floating metal atoll of a huge fueling dock, and finally...
...stands as the pre-eminent example of what has gone wrong with the extensive government cleanup program known as Superfund. Though nearly $1 billion has vanished in litigation, damages and other costs, virtually nothing has been done to the Brio mess in the way of actual cleanup. The pattern has been regularly repeated nationwide: instead of redressing the worst toxic-dumping problems, the program has become a vast legal nightmare, one that has turned interested parties against one another in a frenzy of litigation...