Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's pretty much been the pattern between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the gulf war. The ascendancy of the hard-liners in the U.S.S.R., however ominous, has not altered the country's basic desire to stay in the good graces of the capitalist world as much as possible, if only because it desperately wants outside help for its economy. Also the Soviets are so much in need of internal stability and calm that they are all the more eager to be seen fostering those virtues abroad. Hence the core of agreement -- and cooperation -- between Moscow and Washington...
...affiliate with anyone from Merrill Lynch to McDonald's. So-called fire walls would prevent banks from risking federally insured deposits in the new ventures. The plan would also let banks create nationwide networks of branches within three years under a law that would replace the current crazy-quilt pattern of state rules that govern interstate banking...
...tumor manages to coax nearby blood vessels to come to its aid, it can continue on its growth pattern past the "apartment complex" stage, ballooning up from the size of a pinprick to that of a golf-ball or even larger...
...most difficult to try to rear-range my spatial orientation by 90 degrees. I tried sleeping on the wall to reproduce the original pattern, but I couldn't seem to stay there, no matter how much poster gum I used...
...column of 800 to 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles in that area -- or maybe it was a phantom -- moving south toward the Saudi border or north, away from it, under massive allied air attack or perhaps not. Late in the week allied commanders said they saw no pattern in Iraqi movements that would presage further raids...