Word: patterning
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According to the women, who spoke on the condition their names would not be used, the man approached several of them more than once, and they said his behavior followed a clear pattern...
...pedophile priests to other parishes, where they can commit abuse again. In one of the worst cases, that of the Rev. John Geoghan, the church hierarchy had responded to clear evidence of his depravity by moving the now defrocked priest around for almost two decades--as he continued his pattern of molestation of minors. Last week he was sentenced to nine to 10 years for indecent assault and battery...
...right leg below the knee. Dr. Mahindra Kumar Nepal, executive director of the capital's Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, says his wards receive one or two victims of similar attacks a day. "We are getting fractures here that you never see described in medical literature," he says. "A clear pattern has emerged. It seems there is a policy to terrorize people through the use of extreme violence...
Most of the business flameouts of Asia's Internet bust followed a familiar pattern: dotcom forms Web portal. Dotcom raises millions in an overhyped, undercooked public stock offering. Dotcom blows millions trying to get big. Dotcom vanishes in a flurry of unpaid bills...
Marie started to lose her vision when a condition known as retinitis pigmentosa caused the rod and cone cells in her retina to degenerate. When rod and cone cells die off, the retina is rendered insensitive to light and the result is blindness. Marie's case followed the typical pattern. First her rod cells went, leaving only a slim tunnel of vision through which she could still manage to recognize objects and read with difficulty. But then as her cone cells failed, this last narrow window on the world snapped shut and she was left completely blind - even though...