Word: patterning
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Protestantism in the U.S. has always been the domain of small, cozy congregations with 100 to 300 members; Catholic parishes are often large, but few Protestant churches have ever reached the 1,000-member point. Now, rapidly and dramatically, that pattern is changing with the rise of superchurches that boast mammoth memberships and facilities to match. Forty-three Protestant congregations in the U.S. claim 5,000 or more Sunday worshipers, says John N. Vaughan of Missouri's Southwest Baptist University in his Church Growth Today newsletter. Moreover, 116 congregations in 28 states say their attendance jumped by 300 or more...
Like earlier court documents, the witnesses' sworn statements point to an alarming behavior pattern on the part of Smith, 30, a nephew of Senator Edward Kennedy and a Georgetown medical school graduate, who is charged with raping a 29-year-old woman at the Kennedy compound during Easter weekend. The three women tell remarkably similar stories about meeting Smith at a party, then being offered an escort home and a spare room at his parents' place; none of the women suspected that any harm could come to them. "He was quite charming," recalls one witness, who met Smith...
Their testimony was a windfall for the prosecution. Lasch hopes to use the $ women's stories to show that Willy had a pattern of attacking women sexually, ignoring their protests and dismissing them afterward with the warning that no one would believe their claims. But it is one thing to have the women swear out a statement; it is another to wrestle their testimony into court. Legal principle holds that a defendant should be judged on evidence of a particular crime, not the record of past ones, unless he consistently commits a sort of signature offense. In this case Smith...
...Iran-contra affair may be only part of a broader and previously undisclosed pattern of illegal activities by intelligence agencies during the tenure of Ronald Reagan and his CIA chief William Casey. Sources close to the unfolding investigation of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International told TIME that U.S. intelligence agencies, including the CIA, maintained secret accounts with the globe-girdling financial empire, which has been accused of laundering billions of dollars in drug money, financing illegal arms deals and engaging in other crimes...
...Chicxulub crater marks the impact point of the killer comet. Says Boynton: "This is nearly as close to a certainty as one can get in science." Some scientists disagree. David Archibald, a biologist at San Diego State University, believes the extinctions took place more gradually and in a complex pattern. "There is zero evidence that dinosaurs became extinct virtually overnight...