Word: patterning
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...legislation alone will not change the pattern...
...best known for his field work in the Brvu valley in Peru, which culminated in his 1953 article “Settlement Pattern Survey,” in which he proposed and explicated the method of tracing human occupation of regions by studying their effects on the landscape...
...very high percentage are alumni cases,” agrees Susan G. Case, a college counselor at Milton Academy, which in some years has sent Harvard a quarter of the Z-list all by itself. “There isn’t necessarily an academic pattern, but it’s usually institutional needs. That’s a phrase they use internally...
...that front. I have a lot of relatives who should be here, asking me if I’ve met any nice boys or if I have a job yet. Unfortunately, over the last 10 years or so, cancer has hit my extended family hard. It was a pattern through middle school and high school: making hospital visits, going to funerals, and moving on. It never occurred to me that I could do anything about it—cancer was just a fact of life, something that tended to happen to the people I love. That was that...
...pattern repeated once I came to college. Instead of my own relatives, now it was the loved ones of my loved ones who were being diagnosed with a scary regularity, and I started reacting differently. When someone to whom I was personally close got ill, I had learned how to handle it. But when it was a family friend’s son or my godparent’s mother, I would react by doing something entirely unconstructive, like punching walls or practicing karate kicks or going for an obscenely long run. I started to get unreasonably angry, feeling like...