Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sophomore distance freestyle Brian Younger, who placed fourth at the Olympic Trials in the 1,500 meters, the pattern of winning was rarely broken. Since freestyle events begin and conclude every meet, that strength meant the Crimson made waves coming off the block and finished with a flourish...
...instance, the Business School requests that candidates write a 10-15 page personal statement which "shows the trajectory of their intellectual journey and what their plans for the future are," says Robert H. Hayes, the director of faculty planning. "There's not a set pattern to these [personal statements...
...Throughout the year I was president, there was such a pattern of lying and disingenuousness," King says...
...become a reliable pattern in American politics that when the plumbing breaks down, the superintendents appear promptly to fix it. Progressives in the teens and '20s tried to clean up the electoral process with the secret ballot and the direct election of Senators. In the 1960s smoke-filled rooms gave way to primary beauty pageants, and after Watergate, big-money contributors had to form PACs instead of flushing money directly to their candidates. The avowed goal is always the same: to ensure communion between the voters and their leaders...
...report also points up discrepancies in Israel's responses to the event, the most glaring of which is this: the shells' pattern is at odds with the argument that the "accident" was a result of "a couple of stray shells," as the Israelis originally claimed. As Van Kappen told TIME last week, "When I went there, I believed the Israeli army: a few shells had just overshot. I was there only 10 minutes when I knew I was in deep trouble. This was not a simple overshoot." Nevertheless, the Israelis, who have contradicted themselves several times in an effort...