Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...touch-sensitive screen, like an Etch-A-Sketch. To help Pilot turn those squiggles into English (the Achilles' heel of the Newton, which was likely to translate GET LUNCH into EAT COUCH), users must write in Graffiti, a simplified written language that replaces each letter with a geometric pattern; an A looks like an upside down V, for instance. It took us 10 minutes to learn, and after a week we were up to about 80% of our normal writing speed...
...Haiti's shaky democracy, the fragility of what passes for peace in Northern Ireland, or whatever it is that North Korea and Cuba are up to. But neither does anyone else, including Clinton, and Dole is again unsatisfying when one seeks coherent alternatives to the President's approaches. The pattern is obvious: Dole opposes Clinton's policies because they are Clinton's policies--and offers virtually nothing realistic in the way of responsible options...
Continuing a pattern it has followed in its last three games, the Crimson blasted off to a rocket-fast start on its home field. By the end of the first half, Harvard was up 2-0, and Kohler was well on his way to his first career hat trick...
...need to shut out the scant sunlight that enters the room because your half-naked physique might offend a passer-by. And, if it is afternoon and you can reasonably assume no "inappropriateness" will be going on, your open shades are greeted by telephoto lenses and the criss-cross pattern of the window screen on a stranger's nose...
Wisse, who opened the discussion, blamed the lack of Jewish political independence for the historic inability of the Jewish people to gain security for themselves. In Wisse's opinion, the goal of a new Jewish political strategy should be to break this pattern of dependence and to insist on reciprocity with other nations...