Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went to our local equivalent of Hubba-Hubba and looked for the most flamboyant pantyhose we could find, settling on a black-and-white checked pattern that could have come from a "Magic Eye" book. The reaction at school the next day was fairly predictable. Some people giggled, some gaped, some ignored us, some whispered unprintable words under their breath. The mission was a complete failure, and my teammates' leg hairs remained unshorn. Despite the build-up I've given it, my experience in the world of transvestitism was pretty much a non-event...
...broken, when are we going to fix it? Here's the rub: The FAA can happily ignore the NTSB's recommendations. "One would think they'd hop right on this, but that's not their pattern," says TIME business correspondent William Saporito. "One proposes and the other disposes. There's really no requirement at all." Next time you fly, better ask how old the plane...
...invading their rooms difficult--one was in the habit of going to bed and waking up early to take seven-hour practice MCATs, while the other slept at random hours, adding up to about six hours per day over each three-day period but otherwise conforming to no particular pattern. I found myself calling home and slyly asking my parents what time it was, but even this proved difficult, since they are in the normal-people habit of going to sleep before midnight and waking up at six to go to work. After a while, a friend directed...
Starr has always known that to make a credible case against Clinton he must go beyond sex to prove a pattern of obstruction. Sources tell TIME that the prosecutor appears to be close to wrapping up just such a case and reporting it to Congress. "Starr has enough to send up to the Hill," says a lawyer familiar with the case. After gathering documents, E-mail and testimony from Lewinsky's confidantes, Starr and his deputies may have gathered sufficient corroborating evidence to prove that what Lewinsky said in her tape-recorded conversations with Linda Tripp was more than...
...fairy arranges 100 gems in a line. First, she touches each gem. Then she touches every other gem, starting with the second one. Then she touches every third one, starting on the third gem. This pattern continues until she touches every 99th one (which is just the 99th one) and then every 100th one (which is just the 100th one). She tells you that the gems that she has touched an odd number of times will kill you and the ones that she has touched an even number of times will give you eternal life. Which gems kill...