Word: patterning
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Requested by the NSF, the report examines Russia's manpower, its use of the manpower, its pattern of employment, and its training of scientists...
Bowles' belief in a liberal consensus of public opinion suffers from the same basic weakness as Goldwater's notion of the conservative consensus--neither exists--but Bowles' argument at least has some interesting historical roots. Bowles sees a pattern in American political history of recurring "breakthroughs" (or "breaksthrough": this is definitely an adman's word): at the times of Jefferson, Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt. These breakthroughs occurred when the party in power was no longer able to cope with a situation, and the minority had developed a new and promising approach to the problem. The old minority was then able...
TIME believes that the new sched ule better fits the pattern of breaking news as well as the changing reading habits of the nation. Most news, except for disasters and other unexpected events, happens on the world's working days and tends to peak at the end of the week. So, the editors reasoned, it would be logical to put TIME "to bed" Saturday night, conduct most of the printing operation (already the fastest of its kind in the world) during the relatively quieter Sunday hours, and get the magazine to its readers earlier...
...Give the Soviets a veto in case the OAS, as is likely, gets around to Dominican-pattern sanctions against Russia's new friend Cuba...
Israelis are confident that the future is theirs, because they have brought Jews back to the "normal" pattern of society -the territorial state. But the nation-state is out of date, thinks Toynbee. "In the new age, on which we are now entering, the standard type of community, in my expectation, is going to be not the territorial national state, but the world-encompassing religious community. It is, in fact, going to be the type of community that has been represented already, for some 2,400 years past,*by the Jewish Diaspora...