Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to fight an enemy that doesn't fight back. If Russia moves to seize their capital, Grozny, Chechen fighters are likely to simply retreat into the hills rather than fight to the end. That pattern was established Friday, when Russian troops advanced into Chechnya's second city, Gudermes, only to find its Chechen defenders already gone. "Chechen sources say most of their fighters are retreating into the mountains and drawing Russia into the cities as winter sets in," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "They see it as a trap, because winter will hamper the Russian attack helicopters...
Meinert's trouble began at GWU. U.S. Attorneys in the District of Columbia said Meinert's pattern of theft began there and spanned two years...
...early days of a wired revolution in medicine. The Web has shattered the physician's tightly held monopoly on information. Specialists are starting to provide consultations via the Internet. Some doctors are experimenting with computer programs that monitor how often an asthmatic refills a prescription, alerting them when the pattern indicates that stronger medicines are needed to head off a more serious attack...
...past few decades, the moderate-fat, lower-carbohydrate ones are the most successful. They stress not how much food you eat but what kinds. Calorie counting is not as important as carbo counting. They are not so much diets as a permanent change to a more balanced eating pattern...
According to Pokaski, area residents reported to the board a pattern of mischief-making on the part of SAE members. The litany of allegations included public urination, dropping trash from the roof of the fraternity house onto parked cars, making loud noises late into the night and various other grievances...