Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Coach Scott Anderson has implemented a new "wide-2" offense this year--a scheme which spreads players across the entire field in a "T" pattern which is designed to free up the Crimson's game. Anderson hopes that it will spread out the Harvard attack and, ultimately, create more one-on-one opportunities...
...which is high in sulfur dioxide, can cause serious lung ailments, especially among the elderly and the very young living within 20 miles of the burning oil wells. Some scientists fear that the acrid plumes will climb into the stratosphere, darken the skies, lower temperatures and change the weather pattern of the entire gulf region. And, say oil experts, it might take until the end of 1991 to extinguish all 600 blazes...
...their support of the coalition and to cement American credibility in the Arab world. But even Israel's No. 1 patron cannot make Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir budge unless he chooses to. And he does not. "We shall stand firm," says Shamir, against "attempts to establish a new pattern of Middle East arrangements...
...giant corporations truly international bastions of equal-opportunity employment? A seemingly innocuous footnote jeopardizes the book's central argument. After praising Sony for its global management team, Reich concedes in tiny type that the general pattern is that the "directors and top officers of Japanese corporations are uniformly Japanese." Wait a second. If most Japanese companies are still so xenophobic, does this not suggest that high- quality jobs for Americans are, in truth, quite limited...
Formally, the allies denied they were negotiating at all. But that was true only in the sense that diplomats and heads of government were exchanging views mostly by telephone and cable rather than face-to-face around a table. Otherwise, the pattern of offer and counterproposal, of demands advanced, accepted, modified or dropped, was pretty much what it might have been in a formal conference...