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Meanwhile, in the second minute of Saturday night's contest, the Crimson started a trend which was to prove to be the pattern throughout the 90 minutes--they would attack or counterattack down the flank, make a great cross into the area, the goalkeeper would be drawn out of position, and nobody would be there to hit it home...
Voters in Iowa have established a tradition of tossing out incumbent Senators, having disposed of two of them in that fashion over the past six years. They may be set to reinforce the pattern. The victim would be conservative Republican Roger Jepsen, who is being challenged by five-term liberal Congressman Tom Harkin. Jepsen, regarded by many as pompous, was badly hurt by the revelation that seven years ago he had visited a Des Moines sex club. Harkin has lately been running ahead of Jepsen in the polls, but observers warn that it is still too early to count...
...part to distract attention from economic problems. The unemployment rate has been estimated at close to 20%, and tourism is down. Despite the huge trade deal with the Soviets, not a single ruble's worth of merchandise has been exchanged so far. "It's a very traditional pattern for the Soviets," said a State Department official. "Massive trade agreements, good publicity, then nobody pays attention to the follow...
...found a pattern, and at a meeting to Arizona last august, the two dropped their bombshell. The extinctions, they said, seemed separated by periods of roughly 26 million years--the most recent occurring 11 million, 37 million, and 91 million years ago, leaving the present age about midway between extinctions...
Mondale portrayed the Laxalt letter as part of a pattern of "moral McCarthyism," instigated by "an extreme fringe poised to capture the Republican Party and tear it from its roots in Lincoln"−with Reagan's encouragement. "Listen to Jerry Falwell," he urged his audience, "whose benediction at the Republican Convention called Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush 'God's instruments for rebuilding America.' Or read the so-called Christian Voice report card, which flunks Geraldine Ferraro on 'moral/family issues' because she supports the nuclear freeze. Or scan something called the Presidential Biblical Scoreboard, which...