Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When receiver coaches teach a flanker to run anew pattern, they are teaching him discipline asmuch as they are teaching him how to get open fora pass in next week's game...
...mixed biscuits in a biscuit mixer" as fast as possible five times. Their average time was 14 sec. on high-estrogen days, vs. 17 sec. when hormone levels were low. On the other hand, the women's spatial abilities -- picking a shape out of a complex pattern, for example -- were stronger on low-estrogen days...
Every month Stern, who herself was married this year, spends a week selecting possible matches for her clients, trying to find a pattern of likenesses, rather like assembling a multidimensional jigsaw puzzle. Much of the rest of her time is spent advising on anxieties of the heart: most members are very definite about a potential partner's height, build and age. Already members have gone through a fairly rigorous selection process: they must have incomes over $30,000 a year (unless they are students) and have a university degree (self-made people excepted). All are questioned about sexual diseases, particularly...
...voters, the Democrats are still the party of militant blacks, meddlesome social workers, uppity feminists and draft-card-burning protesters. Such images not only are unfair but also reflect some of the nation's most deep-seated prejudices. Sad to say, they also provide a convincing explanation for the pattern inherent in the defeats of Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale and now Dukakis...
...placing stricter limits on gender ratiosin incoming sophomore classes. Currently, theratio of males to females in each house'ssophomore class must be between 1 to 1 and 2 to 1.The recommendations would allow masters to bringthose parameters closer to the campus-wide ratioof 1.3 to 1 if a pattern of imbalance arose...