Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, may not be restricted to violent content. The saturation coverage devoted to each of the more than five high school shootings over the past 18 months may serve as some perverse form of inducement to the alienated "loners" who carry them out. After all, if there is a pattern in the motive for the attacks it is generally a sense of alienation and desire to take violent revenge for perceived -- or real -- social exclusion. In a culture that has since World War II been built primarily around the television set, the coverage devoted to high school shootings...
Actually, in the past decade, the HVL. program has followed a striking even-odd year pattern of results, winning in the odd years and falling short in the even years. As far back as 1993, the varsity boat won the national championship. Yet, in 1994, with six returning seniors who were all national champions from the year before, the crew was unable to pull everything together, coming up short in both end-of-the-season races...
...family spends every summer at a bungalow colony in the Catskills. Her husband, Marty (Liev Schreiber), is forced to spend most of his time away from the family at work. As always, the absence of the husband conveniently opens the door for the infidelity of the wife, a pattern that plays out to perfection when Pearl becomes involved with an enigmatic blouse-seller named Walker (Viggo Mortensen), a drifter who epitomizes the care-free existence of that generation. Pearl's regression from upright mother and wife to liberated--and thus irresponsible--woman is contrasted by the simultaneous coming...
...this pattern holds true for the Cynar brothers. Justin has an 8.14 goals against average (GAA) and 72 saves for Cornell after the first six games of his collegiate career and should be a candidate for the Ivy Rookie of the Year Award. Keith, a pre-season All-American and former Ivy Rookie of the Year himself, has an 8.11 GAA and 71 saves this season...
...Serb pattern of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and other war crimes has continued basically uninterrupted for almost seven years... [The NATO bombing is] signaling to the Belgrade government that they can't continue with their pattern that they've engaged in for the past seven years," he said...