Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Such a pattern is repeated in a number of other Jewish rituals and holidays. For instance, Yom Ha'Aztmaut, Israeli Independence Day, is immediately preceded by Yom HaZikaron, Memorial Day, which commemorates all those who fell in defense of Israel. One goes immediately from sorrow to gladness...
...Clinton will give Yeltsin another boost by holding a meeting with him when members of the G-7 economic conference pay a visit to Moscow. That event, and the other moves with respect to the Russian election that the Administration will make between now and June, should follow the pattern already set-no endorsements, but lots of symbolism and hints. The U.S. has a horse in the race, but it doesn't want to be spotted cheering...
...Such a pattern cannot be tolerated in any vision of a future Middle East. Provisions against terrorist attacks must be made, simply because it has come to the point of occurring too often and claiming too many lives...
...responsible for terror; Peres must be more stern and severe with the issue of terrorist attacks. Politicians must deal with such events differently: not for the span of a few weeks when they occur, but on a more rigorous and continual basis. These bombings have turned into a sick pattern of events--the pattern must be broken. --Yuval Segal '97 --Dalia Trachtenberg '96 Co-chairs, Harvard Students for Israel
...limbs and our senses, not our essence. Thinking is our specialty, or so we think. How could a device capable of nothing more than calculation (of the possible moves) and scoring (of the relative strengths of the resulting positions) possibly beat a human with a lifetime of experience, instant pattern recognition, unfathomable intuition and a killer instinct...