Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge said that the defense counsel misled the court," Jackson said following the decision. "He said that they destroyed evidence. That is a pattern of behavior that is not acceptable...
Shoe designers finely tune each category of shoe to its particular activity by studying human motion and physiology. Reebok's baseball shoes, for example, have a specially designed cleat pattern called SpeedSlot for fast starts and stops. Crafty Nike marketeers have also invented in-between products, most notably the cross-trainer shoe, designed for an all-around athlete. Cross- trainers offer enough lateral support for the sideways motions of aerobics and basketball but are light and flexible enough for jogging...
...sense of internal pressure confers urgency on these big surfaces and turns them into something other, and more physically compelling, than flat pattern. It's not that Scully has any strong sculptural impulse; when he makes one slab of a painting project an inch or two above the adjoining surface, it is still not meant to be seen in the round or to suggest material weight. But he does want to give the image the distinctness of a body, asserting itself against your gaze...
Whether deliberate or not, Bush seems to have developed a new pattern of reaction for these events. His calls to a dozen heads of state and his orders to ambassadors and military commanders set in motion literally hundreds of probes and pressures to pinch off the terrorist acts, perhaps the most comprehensive network ever stitched together so quickly and so quietly. That is much harder work than going to war, and the returns are not yet in. The use of force may still be the only effective answer. Bush's exercise of power is another experiment in the new world...
...notice how quickly the battle of the sexes has been heating up. These, in fact, are hard times for lovers; in the age of AIDS and the palimony suit, an affair of the heart seems less a matter of chemistry than of medicine and law and politics. The pattern now, it appears, is boy meets girl (or sometimes boy), quizzes on sexual history, comes clean with an update on his own antisocial diseases and puts it all down in writing, for the lawyers. Precoital tristesse, in short. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? O.K. But remember that...