Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tradition, the life story of the Latin American dictator goes something like this: win power, steal, flee (aided by the hallowed tradition of "political asylum"), spend and enjoy. The story almost never includes: return home, face the music. Last week, in a startling change in the familiar pattern, the democratic government of Colombia stood up to a brazen former strongman and made him answer for his actions...
Stuart P. Atkins, professor of German, said that there is a "general change in the pattern of secondary school and college education," under which "languages have suddenly acquired an independent character." He added that the change in English Department policy permitted Honors students to take an advanced modern language course...
Just about everything that is important happens to the three sisters of the title. Living in a middle-class house in a provincial Russian city around the turn of the century, each of the sisters looks for reason, some pattern in her life--through love, work, or an escape to the heavenly city of Moscow. Each in her own way fails to find ultimate happiness, but they all learn that reasons are unimportant and that living itself is enough happiness...
Mayor Fernand Lefort called in the Association of Flea Market Merchants, showed off designs for a handsome new Flea Market of 1,000 booths-even, for old times' sake, arranged in a labyrinth pattern of circling passageways, yet leaving room for five new housing blocks...
...reported that in September it operated in the black for the second consecutive month. At the same time railroads that had been making money did even better. Northern Pacific reported that the September gross of $18,285,000 was the second best month in its history. But the business pattern was varied. Some companies were on the upswing while others were still looking for the turn...