Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gorbachev's political genius so far has been his ability to swerve from left to right, to set things up so he is always the leader between the extremes, the man of moderation. He no doubt intends to continue that pattern by trying to balance the Baltics' demand for independence with the dark threat of violence from the reactionaries. In that effort, the most ominous question is whether there is any ground in the middle left for him to stand...
...Policy makers say, 'you scholars have the leisure to think these things through, but we don't have the leisure,'" says Kelman. "And scholars want to be a part of the process and not seem naive so they fall into the same pattern [of thinking...
...that time, the destruction was well under way. Pilots returning from the first attack described an awesome pattern of flashing multicolored lights -- some antiaircraft bursts, some bombs -- brightening the dark ground and skies. One after another likened it to a Fourth of July fireworks display or a Christmas tree. A British television correspondent standing on a sixth-floor balcony of Al Rasheed Hotel reported a weird sight: a U.S. cruise missile whizzing past at eye level and slamming into the Iraqi Defense Ministry nearby...
That is not an easy task even for the most technologically sophisticated nation. A modern assault -- and the one on Iraq appears to have followed this pattern -- begins with an attack on the enemy's air-defense capabilities. Ground-hugging cruise missiles, flying too low for radar to detect easily, hit targets initially judged too dangerous for manned aircraft to handle. In the assault on Baghdad, some of the first blows came from Tomahawk cruise missiles fired by ships far out in the Persian Gulf. As the first explosions rocked the city, Iraqi antiaircraft fire was directed into...
...would use "line charges" -- bombs thrown out on cables to form a string of close-together explosions -- to break through obstacles. Tanks fitted with bulldozer blades would then plow a way through craters. Bridges might be thrown across trenches. Artillery would lay down a "box barrage," a three-sided pattern of fire to prevent the Iraqis from attacking U.S. troops moving through a breach in the lines (the breach would be the fourth side...