Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opening fissures that serve as its pipelines to the surface. What happens next depends on the composition of the magma. If it is fairly liquid, it generally produces a stately lava flow that poses more of a threat to property than to humans. Hawaiian volcanoes tend to follow this pattern...
...many of the leaders of the world's new emerging democracies are people who, in one way or another, have had their lives profoundly affected by the dictatorships they are replacing. Is this pattern natural? Necessary? Useful...
...Having our own imaging capability makes the production process more responsive to the news," says Mark Stelzner, our manager of imaging operations. The old system involved an elaborate flow pattern -- a little like a Super Bowl play -- of pictures, paper layouts and computer data, tied to three separate computer systems. Whenever there was a news event or we wanted to use a better picture, those complexities made any change a chore...
...have gotten him ready for such a moment. The 20,000-seat Saddledome was by far the largest arena that the then-Harvard junior had ever skated in. As Wylie bent down his head at center ice to form the starting position of his routine, he saw the familiar pattern of colored Olympic rings embedded...
...headache and doesn't want to have sex and she gives in," says Ann Marie Tucker, executive director of the Citizens Committee on Rape, Sexual Assault and Sexual Abuse in Buffalo. "That isn't it at all. The sexual abuse is often part of an ongoing pattern of physical intimidation and violence...