Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overcharge customers an average $223 for repairs, and that Sears mechanics also billed undercover agents for work that was never done. Spurred by a 50% increase in consumer complaints against Sears auto shops over the past three years, say California officials, they began a probe that reveals a "constant pattern of abuse." Consumer-affairs director Jim Conran is seeking revocation of Sears' license to perform auto repairs in California. Says he: "These are not honest mistakes. This is the systematic looting of the public." Sears denies the charges. A spokesman for the company says that "while honest mistakes may have...
White House Chief of Staff Everybody seems to have a favorite new job for Sam Skinner. Dream replacements: Cheney or Powell. See a pattern...
...Washington, Democrats in Congress introduced a bill that would permit renewal of most-favored-nation status for China only if it dramatically improves its respect for human rights, stops selling nuclear and missile technology abroad, halts unfair trade practices and gives up its pattern of copyright violations. Democratic leaders fully expect the bill to pass, but Bush is just as likely to veto it. As in past showdowns over China, Congress will probably lack the votes to override the President...
...best face on things, in his maintenance of a sunny facade with darker things behind it. Others find its legacy in his sympathy for others and his urge for reconciliation. Much of his past is permanently blanked out, though Clinton acknowledges that those experiences play themselves out in patterns of behavior. "If you live in that kind of constant environment where conflict is never resolved, you tend to repeat that pattern when you grow up," he says. "That was an early problem with me, so that I would let things fester too long and then try to deal with them...
...pattern of review meetings and the basicquestions are the same in each school, but theprocess moves more quickly in some places than inothers...