Word: patterning
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Saturday's game against Division 3 St. Lawrence followed a similar pattern, as Harvard failed to get on the scoreboard for the first period...
Most policymakers would rather wait until the greenhouse effect and other environmental threats have irrefutably arrived before taking remedial action. Not Senator Albert Gore. "When you look at the overall pattern, the image is so clear that further delay is utterly irresponsible," he says. "We know enough right now to justify moving as quickly as possible to change the practices that are causing the worst environmental destruction in history...
...John Paul last year pursued this pattern with two important appointments. As Archbishop of Philadelphia, he chose Anthony Bevilacqua, 65, who had handled the ouster of a pro-choice nun in 1983. The see of Pittsburgh went to Donald Wuerl, 48, who had earlier been assigned to keep watch over Seattle's liberal Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen. Resentment over the Hunthausen affair is one cause of mistrust and disagreement between the Vatican and the U.S. hierarchy. In the hope of improving relations, several dozen U.S. bishops will travel to Rome in March for a highly unusual face-to- face meeting with...
...working with two U.S. companies to solve the problem. Starting next summer, the FAA will receive five new devices developed by San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. for screening checked luggage. The machine bombards luggage with neutrons that interact with the nitrogen in explosives, touching off a characteristic pattern of gamma rays. In tests conducted last summer at Los Angeles and San Francisco airports, the devices spotted more than 95% of suitcases containing test samples of explosive materials. But because they employ dangerous radiation, the machines, which cost as much as $1 million each, cannot be used on passengers...
Thinking so may be a comfort to Democrats, but it is the reductio ad absurdum of election analysis and the first step toward losing the next election. How long can Democrats go on missing the point? After a while -- say, a quarter-century -- a pattern begins to emerge. Since 1964 Democrats have lost every presidential election save one. And that one (Carter in '76) was a squeaker and a fluke, coming immediately after Nixon's fall, the Ford pardon and the biggest gaffe in the history of presidential debates (Ford liberating Poland...