Word: patterns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time about 15 to 20 students, almost a third of them girls, are in the program. Upon a student's arrival, counselors gather a personal history, which often reveals that a pattern of academic decline began with some crisis: the death of a parent, an episode of sexual abuse. During their daily 5 1/2 hours, students do regular schoolwork and take part in a much praised program developed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the state's public health commissioner, that tries to teach them how to discharge anger without resorting to violence. The school also uses scare-tactic "field trips...
...presumed murder of an unspecified number of its citizens by army death squads. Though the evidence presented at the proceedings deals specifically with the disappearance of four people in the early 1980s, no individuals are on trial; rather, the court is attempting to determine if there is a pattern of murderous conduct on the part of Honduras. For many Latin Americans, the missing four may come to symbolize the thousands who have mysteriously and tragically vanished throughout the hemisphere over the years...
Over the past several years, the women's Beanpot hockey tournament has taken on a distinct pattern...
...present pattern of women's Beanpot play was first set in the 1984 tournament. Harvard and Northeastern shut out their opposition in the first round. In the consolation game, B.C. blanked B.U. In the final, the Huskies zipped the Crimson...
...proved antibody-positive, meaning that their mothers almost certainly were infected. About 90% of the affected children were born in New York City. Previous surveys have indicated that many such mothers are poor, black or Hispanic women from neighborhoods where intravenous drug abuse is rampant, confirming a demographic pattern established by a similar study in Massachusetts published last year. Not all of these newborns, however, are doomed. Doctors estimate that more than half received only antibodies -- not the virus itself -- from their mothers during gestation. These lucky ones will not develop AIDS. The others, however, will eventually sicken, most before...