Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Douglas Ginsburg was a Baby Boomer of sorts himself, and though not a political candidate, he would have been the first of his generation to have become a Supreme Court justice. But he too fell victim to the same pattern. It began with questions about his competence: What scholarship had he really done? How many cases had he ever argued? Had he proved himself as a legal mind worthy of the Court? Soon it mushroomed into questions about his character, with the final blow being the revelation that he smoked marijuana while a Harvard law professor...
...Merrill Lynch fired Dillon late last month after it discovered his suspicious trading pattern. Prudential-Bache, detecting an apparently separate but very similar scam, late last month fired a broker in its Anaheim, Calif., office whom it has accused of getting early copies of Business Week from a printing plant in Torrance, Calif. Last week the company that operates both plants, R.R. Donnelley & Sons (which also prints some copies of TIME), fired three workers; a fourth resigned...
...prosecutors say they have uncovered a pattern of misdeeds spurred by greed. "People got into the J.R. Ewing syndrome," says Henry Oncken, the U.S. Attorney in Houston. "The more they made, the more they got caught up in making more." Some S and Ls that believe they were plundered by their officers are taking them to court. Dallas-based Sunbelt Savings Association is suing former Chairman Edwin McBirney III and other ex-managers for $630 million. The suit alleges in part that McBirney paid "excessive commissions and fees" to friends and relatives. In one instance, McBirney is accused of allowing...
...begins to realize that he is being watched, people have designs on his destiny. Someone who knows what is cooking spells it out for him: "You're a quirk of history. You're a coincidence. They devise a plan, you fit it perfectly." The lecturer concludes, "There's a pattern in things...
Given these preoccupations, it was probably inevitable ("There's a pattern in things") that DeLillo would get around to the assassination, that nexus of | paranoia. But it is difficult to see exactly what Libra adds to this event, aside from some temporary diversion. Its argument, that the plot to kill the President was even wider and more sinister than previously imagined, will seem credible chiefly to the already converted, among whom are surely people who also believe that Martians are sending them messages through the fillings in their teeth. There is a simpler possibility that Libra inventively skirts: a frustrated...