Word: patterning
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...Strident denials are the order of the day for both Firestone and Ford. But no matter how fervently they argue that there was no recognizable pattern of problems with Firestone's tires in the U.S. before the recall, many critics believe that there were more than enough troubling incidents to have raised red flags long before so many lost their lives...
...couple of dead August vacation weeks, the race has reconfigured itself, like a kaleidoscope tumbling into a new pattern...
...case against Lee isn't dead yet. Government witnesses have testified about Lee's "pattern of deceptive behavior," and there is still the very troubling matter of those missing tapes. But the cracks in this case have been wide enough to allow critics to call it racist and Lee a scapegoat, and to provoke nostalgia for the old days, when foreign enemies were foreign enemies and accused spies got nailed to the wall...
Muskies are that way. There is no point in trying to outthink them because they move in a universe entirely previous to thinking, or to predictable pattern. They don't have Moby-Dick's baleful metaphysics, but sometimes fishermen work up a sort of Ahab feeling about them. They are giants, as freshwater fish go. The great muskie fisherman Len Hartman caught one weighing 67 pounds, 15 ounces in 1961 in the St. Laurence River, and the record is heavier still...
...been implicated in 46 traffic deaths and roughly 300 accidents in the U.S. While the mishaps cover nine years, the timing of the recall is being hotly debated by lawyers and crisis-management experts. One of the critical questions: At some point, do seemingly isolated events form an ominous pattern that merits investigation and then action? To Valdes, an elementary-school teacher who has filed a lawsuit against Firestone, the recall was "too late, because so many people have died, including my grandmother...