Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President answered his own question last week, straddling various approaches toward urban policy and the environment. Hewing to the pattern he has followed for the past three years, he staged evocative photos and spoke soothing words about the need to "rebuild the hearts of our nation's cities," even while declining to press Congress aggressively for a conservative antipoverty program. For the first time this year, Bush summoned leaders of both parties to discuss domestic policy, asking that they "emphasize the things that we can agree on." That didn't leave them much to discuss beyond disaster relief...
...last week said he expected the economy might inch toward a 3% growth in GDP by year's end, but he also said he could not rule out the possibility that growth would again flatten out. Asked to pronounce the recession over, Boskin demurred: "We've returned to a pattern of growth...
...minority. President Franjo Tudjman's inflammatory and nationalistic rhetoric also stirred Serb fears of a reprise of the genocidal campaign against them by Croat fascists during World War II. Now Bosnia, largely Muslim and Croat but with a 1.4 million Serb ethnic component, has seceded, and Serbia sees the pattern repeating. Once again Serbs feel themselves victimized by an uncaring world. Mihailo Markovic, vice president of the Socialist Party of Serbia, asks, "How can the world accept the reunification of Germany and want to disintegrate the unity of Serbs...
NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer satellite -- COBE -- has found something astronomers have been seeking for nearly 30 years: an almost imperceptible pattern of warm and cool patches in the cosmic microwave background radiation, the oldest light in the cosmos. The radiation was created only 300,000 years after the Big Bang explosion that began the universe, a time when all of space was hot, dense and incandescently bright. The radiation is still around now, 15 billion years later, cooled far below zero and transformed from visible light to microwaves. Its discovery in the mid-1960s confirmed the Big Bang...
...wide as a house is tall, yet it averages only 2.8 cm thick. What prevents this marvel from fracturing under its own weight is a supporting truss composed of thousands of glass ribs that are cast as part of the mirror's underlying structure. Arrayed in a striking hexagonal pattern, the ribs form an airy honeycomb that confers on the mirror the structural strength of solid glass at one-fifth the weight. Because the hexagonal cells are hollow, air can be circulated through them to keep the mirror in constant thermal balance...