Word: patterns
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...pattern in these 464 deaths is depressingly clear: guns most often kill the people who own them or people whom the owners know well. Despite the outcry over street gangs and drug dealers, the week's homicides typically involved people who loved, or hated, each other -- spouses, relatives or close acquaintances. Only 14 deaths were in self-defense. Just 13 involved law- enforcement officers; no on-duty police officer was killed during the week. And despite the current controversy over military-style assault rifles, most of the killing took place with ordinary pistols, shotguns and hunting rifles...
Those words had a hollow ring in the state of Michoacan, where the results of the state legislature's race -- another of the five state elections held last week -- remain hotly contested by Cuauhtemoc Cardenas and his Democratic Revolutionary Party (P.R.D.). The old pattern of fraud and stolen elections seemed to be reasserting itself as the P.R.I. claimed to have won ten of the 18 electoral districts while the P.R.D., alleging widespread irregularity, insisted that it had carried 15 districts. At a press conference on election day, Cardenas accused the P.R.I. of cheating by changing the location of the casillas...
Compulsive gamblers across the country instantly recognize the pattern of acts alleged in an investigative report to Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and in interviews with Rose's associates: bets on ten to 20 college basketball games at a time, losses of $400,000 to just one bookie in one spring, desperate borrowing to pay the debts, equally desperate searches for new bookmakers to replace those who would no longer extend Rose credit or even take his bets...
Members of the self-help group Gamblers Anonymous, who see Rose as one of them, nod and say, aha, his reaction sounds like another part of the classic pattern: denial. There is an ancient gag among Gamblers Anonymous members: "How do you know when a compulsive gambler is lying? When you see his lips move...
THEFT OF FUNDS. The Justice Department last week launched a nationwide inquiry into a pattern of abuse by escrow agents who pocketed money they received from the sale of foreclosed homes over a four-year period. Among the targets is a Maryland woman, nicknamed "Robin Hud," who brags that she stole $5.5 million in HUD money and gave it to the poor...