Word: patterning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continues to criticizes Bellotti's recalcitrance in investigating the MBM-PCM scandal, contending that "I personally do not think the whole story has come out yet...My point is that enough facts have come out already to suggest that the PCM deal in Essex County was part of a pattern...
...Levin's lead in the polls by more than half. But the Senator now is in the most difficult period for a Michigan Republican: traditionally, Democratic candidates get stronger in the closing week of campaigns as the state's large labor vote begins to solidify. If that pattern holds, Griffin next week may find himself just where he once wanted to be?out of the U.S. Senate...
...land and the nature of his crops. Says Lawrence Rappaport, chairman of the department of vegetable crops at the University of California at Davis: "Agriculture is now in perpetual revolution, and there is no end in sight." People flying over the West and Midwest see an unusual pattern on the terrain below: not the familiar farm land with checkerboard squares, but large polka dots, the result of costly ($50,000 each) center-pivot irrigation machines that automatically propel themselves around the fields in a circle. Some of the strawberries that Americans buy and eat are cloned. Yes, cloned. The process...
...Taxation Department decides to intervene--something it has carefully avoided so far. While it is true that in small towns like Somerville assessors will always wind up judging the value of the property of friends and neighbors, in the Howes' case there has been a clear and consistent pattern of lowering the taxes on personal friends and raising the taxes on political foes...
Although the Howes deny using assessment powers as a political weapon, Somerville tax records reveal a persistent pattern of questionable tax reductions awarded to political friends, and tax increases levied on political opponents...