Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yesterday I went sight-seeing with Mrs. konshi. We make quite a pair. She majored in English in college and speaks quite well. We've settled into this funny pattern in which she speaks to me in English, and I speak to her in Japanese. Although it sounds odd, it actually feels quite natural. We correct each other whenever necessary, and talk about all sorts of American and Japanese customs. I am sure people that hear us talking must think we are nuts...
...inheritance pattern of the disease dictated that any child the Abshires conceived would have a 1-in-4 chance of developing Tay-Sachs. As members of the Pentecostal Assembly of God, the couple could not countenance abortion, yet neither could Renee risk conceiving a child who might suffer and die as Maigon had. Still in their 20s, they opted for childlessness...
...divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford to coast home with a contract next week, which will set the pattern for subsequent talks at Chrysler and General Motors...
Snowden's primary target this season will be junior flanker Colby Skelton, who led Harvard in receptions with 35. Skelton runs the out pattern as well as anyone in the league and has the toughness to catch quick slants over the middle...
...homosexuality. Hence this summer's Defense of Marriage Act, which focused not on keeping heterosexuals married but on keeping homosexuals unmarried. This is a familiar pattern among conservatives. They are readier than liberals to dish out real moral sanction but tend to aim at the easy targets, the people they consider creatures from another planet: homosexuals, inner-city mothers, inner-city fathers. The linchpin of a robust moral system, in contrast, is a willingness to stigmatize people close to home, even your friends--even, in a certain theoretical sense, yourself...