Word: patternings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Observers say a shift from this pattern could pave the way for a change in the city's rent control policies...
...night with a 15-8 win in the first game, but got itself in a 12-2 hole in the second. Harvard rallied, but eventually lost the set, 15-13. In the third set, the Crimson bounced back with a decisive 15-6 victory. But keeping to its pattern, Harvard spotted the Chiefs a 7-0 lead in the fourth set before securing a 15-12 triumph...
...plus an all-expenses-paid trip to Florida). Many of the openings are for University jobs in the dining halls or on dorm crew. One of the most sought-after University positions is that of faculty aide, which may entail researching early film animation, quasars or "the incidence and pattern of romantic love" for $10 an hour...
...madman's repeated clashes with authority fit a maddeningly familiar pattern: since arriving in the U.S. from Cuba as part of the Mariel boatlift in 1980, Jorge Delgado had been arrested at least eleven times for petty crimes and hospitalized as a mental patient seven times. Once he had smashed a chalice during a service at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Twice in the past six months, city psychiatrists had examined him and failed to discover any reason not to return him to the streets...
...early display of congressional muscle, both houses quickly passed a five-year, $20 billion clean-water act that Reagan had vetoed the previous session. When the President sent the bill back again, Congress easily overrode his veto. The pattern for the final two years of the lame-duck President's term was set: in almost contemptuous defiance of vetoes and threats, Congress enacted expensive measures to improve highways and mass transit, mandate 60- day notification of plant closings and layoffs, provide help to the homeless, bolster elementary and secondary education, and provide protection against catastrophic illness...