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Good news is almost being ignored and bad news is being accentuated, and that's been the pattern for a week or so.

The two pinnacles I had that I've reached were to catch a fish on my own pattern and to be published in a book. I'm happy I've done that.

There tends to be a seasonal pattern to their results, and the first quarter is often the strongest of the year.

There was a repeated pattern of not admitting the true extent of what problems were, and only then discovering after the fact that they were a lot bigger than had been announced,

There's this movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Some have complained that too many 'secrets' were dished out by the intelligence and special operations communities to director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and their crew, part of a broader pattern of using intelligence for political effect.

The separation of civilian and military nuclear facilities poses a big problem for them. They are worried and nervous because it asks them to change their set pattern of working, which they have been used to for the last three decades.

They'll stay down there as long as Florida Power & Light needs them, or unless we see a change in the weather pattern here.

It looked like we would be experiencing below-normal temperatures through mid-January but now it appears that the pattern will end by the end of the month. That has taken the steam out of natural gas and oil as well.

It's consistent with the Clemmons Area Development Guide and the development pattern that has taken place out there.

It was a big change. The models really turned around. We were looking at a cold weather pattern for the beginning of February. Now, at least the next two weeks are looking quite warm.

I redrew the pattern in Illustrator and blew up sections in a big format and taped them up to see how it looked,

In a fundamental sense, there's really nothing going on in the market right now, so prices should just kind of consolidate and drift in a sideways pattern - unless we get a day like Tuesday where the funds come in and buy 19,000 contracts.

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Anytime someone wants to compare me to Joe Gibbs, it's a compliment. He's one off the guys that if I could pattern my coaching after, he would certainly be one of the guys I've admired for a long, long time. He's one of the best ever.

Anyone can live heroically and successfully for one day. The man who achieves a high purpose makes that day the pattern for all the days of his life.

Anyone capable of this kind of cruelty poses a serious risk, not just to animals, but to fellow human beings as well. Communities should be concerned when animal abusers are found in their midst. Research in psychology and criminology reveals a consistent pattern of cruelty to animals among perpetrators of violence toward humans.

Any effort to change the benefit pattern just virtually guarantees you can't get anything done, ... The Democrats and labor are putting together a massive campaign. If you give them a weapon that big, they're going to succeed.

Then, a strong high-pressure ridge is forecast to develop over the eastern United States. This pattern would force Ophelia westward and west-northwestward toward the US coast.

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.

The industry is returning to a more normal growth pattern after the shocks that began in 2001.

The impact will be concentrated on specialty and sports cars and vehicles over $50,000 in price, continuing the modest pattern of slower growth in luxury-vehicle sales.

The device would allow military divers to swim in a straight line, in a search pattern or to a particular location -- tasks that are difficult in conditions of limited visibility.

The first two years are years of adjustment. And typically a pattern is set for the rest of the marriage.

The fuel leak is fixed and we believe the worldwide wind pattern is acceptable. I hope to be flying in the morning.

The economy is finishing the year on a strong note. Exports have gotten back on track quite nicely, including electronics, which had a bit of difficulty at the start of the year. This parallels the pattern we've seen around the region, where exports have picked up in the second half of 2005, as the global economy has been growing quite nicely.

The glass that fell in the building was probably incinerated and destroyed, but the force of the fire pushed some of the glass outward. We were able to find, by crawling around and even going through wrecked cars, little pieces of the glass. We probably can account for every color and glass pattern on there. With the pieces of glass, in conjunction with the photographs, we could re-create these windows almost exactly.

The global pattern we observed suggests that plant species in species-rich regions exhibit a greater reduction in fruit production due to insufficient pollination than plant species in regions of lower biodiversity.

You will see a similar pattern among all business groups. The majority of members of the major committees are now Republican, and certainly the key leaders are.

The historical pattern is for shocks of this nature to initially be absorbed roughly equally between lower savings and lower purchases for other goods and services.

The individual organs follow the same pattern as the whole organism, i.e. they have their period of growth, of stationary, maximum activity and then of aging decline.

You can show a pattern and practice of prior conduct involving the same type of conspiracy to approach women through the use of state troopers ... to provide sexual favors. That's a pattern and practice that gives rise to an inference that there has been a conspiracy and an agreement to do that with respect to Ms. Jones.

The flight pattern is all over pine trees, versus schools, homes, churches and shopping centers,

The typical pattern in American history is that when things are going well, we welcome immigrants. When they're going badly, we tell them to stay away.

The typical pattern with a natural disaster like this is that the regional economy gets clobbered but you can barely see it in the national statistics. This time it is very different because of the impact on the energy infrastructure.

The UK's economy is doing much better than that of its continental partners. Therefore, having this flexible working pattern in place improves the UK's economy,

The key area to watch is what financial stocks will do. They've been performing well and it's clearly a pattern of higher highs. If they take this (interest rate hike) well, my confidence that we're getting to the end of these Fed hikes will increase.

The emotions are high right now. Everybody's ready for that first game. We've just got to be patient, stay with our pattern and take it one day at a time.

A Good Relationship Has a Pattern Like a Dance A good relationship has a pattern like a dance and is built on some of the same rules. The partners do not need to hold on tightly, because they move confidently in the same pattern, intricate but gay and swift and free, like a country dance of Mozart's. To touch heavily would be to arrest the pattern and freeze the movement, to check the endlessly changing beauty of its unfolding. There is no place here for the possessive clutch, the clinging arm, the heavy hand; only the barest touch in passing. Now arm in arm, now face to face, now back to back -- it does not matter which. Because they know they are partners moving to the same rhythm, creating a pattern together, and being invisibly nourished by it.

The findings are important because they tell us that Mars has experienced big climate changes in the past, the kinds of climate change that led to the Great Ice Age here on Earth. The findings are also interesting because this precipitation pattern may have left pockets of ice scattered across Mars. This is good information for NASA as officials plan future space missions, particularly with astronauts.

The findings of fact reveal a serious pattern of anti-competitive conduct,

The cloth has been cut. The pattern is there,

The clues are well-hidden, but once you figure out the pattern for the code, you realize that a 10-year-old could figure it out. Once I solved it, I knew we were making it harder than what it really was.

You can't have a pattern with him, because he swings at everything and he hits everything hard. Heck, I don't know. Sometimes you just hope he hits it at guys.

You couldn't necessarily say, 'That hurricane, that storm, that flood only happened because of climate change,' (but) you're starting to see a pattern of extreme weather events.

You know, that's racist within itself. I mean, what you're saying is that if you're minority, you can't have a good school if you've got minorities, so you view minorities as a liability that you balance around. That is the underlying racist point when you start with that premise and say we have to balance minority numbers and diversity numbers, your premise that you start out with is that minority students are an inferior student and that's where the racist comment and thought pattern comes from.

This helps fill a big gap that has existed in evolutionary studies. We have known for some time that when species invade a new environment or ecological niche, a common result is the formation of a great diversity of new species. However, we haven't really understood how or whether the process of adaptation generally drives this pattern of species diversification.

This is a great pattern because you can dead drift a hot head leech, and toward the end of the cast, you can throw it on a swing. The fish will take it both ways because leeches tumble down the river and swim. It gives you a long drift.

For example, people with heart failure develop a breathing pattern where they stop breathing (at different times) throughout the entire night. That actually wakes them up repetitively and so people with heart failure will have trouble falling asleep and they'll wake up sometimes very short of breath.

For each woman, the pattern is different. That individual woman will know, for her, if a change has occurred. Every woman is really different.

Forest Park is one of the top teams in the region. We knew going in that they have quality players. They have a specific pattern they play. We asked our guys to do a few things, but they didn't execute the way I wish they had, but even so I am not disappointed with the effort.

For 30 years, ever since John Paul Stevens, there has been an unbroken pattern of naming sitting appellate judges,

It's a lot less common to have a weather pattern that drives a storm straight into the coast in that part of Florida.

It is time to break from the old pattern of land speculation and influence that drives far too much of our transportation spending.

Then in the second quarter the foreign funds start coming in. They look at Japan and think that's doing well and the Japanese start selling straight into it. A regular pattern has been established with the high for the year reached in June or July in the last five out of six years.

For landing, we came in over Edwards about 40,000 feet. We set up for a big circling pattern coming in to land down on the lake bed.

It's not just one vote. It's a pattern and behavior of Jim Gerlach.

It's a pattern not uncommon in disaster areas. These people come in and acquire local companies, making the most of the reputations of those companies.

It's a pattern that's repeated virtually every day. At least today there was a reason to open higher. This is not a good sign that every analyst was out pumping up their favorite tech stocks and here's the result.

It's a pattern you get used to and get into and you just do it. He was expected to play every day before, but we can give him a little break over here and let him get through some of this soreness.

It's all part of the pattern we've seen since the New Year. We had an extraordinary end to 1999 and we started the year by blowing some of the froth off.

As we disclosed in December, unexpected cutbacks by retailers and our further adjustment to a just-in-time shipping pattern negatively impacted our results.

It's not a pattern we want to go with, but it's something I'll take when we're on the road. Our games have been on the road, so when they come to us, hopefully we will be able to play a little more relaxed and know we have the ability to do that.

It's not a pattern you want to fall into. Our backs are truly against the wall. It's the personality of this team to not do things easily.

It's not a pleasant Australia Day to be celebrating down here in Victoria with a number of going fires still occurring right across the state. Significant risk exists coming into an extreme fire weather day like today in a normal setting, that's compounded when we enter that weather pattern with large fires right across the state that are stretching resources.

That?s our pattern in the fourth, to get to the line. I have confidence in our free-throw shooting.

That's something I tried to do last year and again modeled that pattern this year -- just to run each of the regular-season races as if they were important, and they are definitely. But the final 10 and the intensity and pressure and anxiety to get to the racetrack and to have a solid finish . . . the final 10 is definitely so intense that you can wear yourself out before you even get there.

As a man of God and a man of the cloth, it is a continuing pattern of outrage to deny me the opportunity to see the institution, meet with the officers and hear the issues from the inmates,

a saving factor was that there was no nationwide pattern to favor any one party.

This more pure measure has a nearly perfect prediction pattern dating back to 1966, with leads of 9-20 months.

This morning, we were able to sustain momentum somewhat off of some good earnings reports. But the pattern still hasn't broken entirely that people are looking to sell into the rallies. The concerns continue to be inflationary.

This pattern is fundamental to probably all Japanese art, particularly the performing arts or poetry. The Japanese feel it's actually the rhythm of nature.... Nature is a continuous process of beginnings, accelerated development and quick endings.

This pattern is not merely about new applications. It's about a revolution in how we create, share and refine anything that can be digitally encoded -- be it news and information, artistic forms, scientific breakthroughs, personal communications, economic transactions, and, yes, even software. This is not Web 2.0. It's World 2.0.

This pattern looks like it will continue well into next week.

This pattern (of gender imbalance) may be teaching girls and boys that the lives of males and their stories are more important and valuable than those of females.

This pickup in monthly house-price inflation is consistent with the continuing upward trend in market activity in recent months and the previous pattern of house price movements when the Bank of England begins to reduce interest rates.

This president has a real pattern of defying conventional wisdom.

You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops.

They got into a pattern of under-investing in their franchise to try and boost revenues.

It seems to me that there is sort of a pattern here of disregard for the law.

It seems to be the pattern out here in the West. A lot of teams play really the way we played a couple years ago. It should be a system we're familiar looking at so we just have to match the work ethic.

It's extremely important for districts like ours that are seeing a pattern of decline in enrollment.

The report follows the recent pattern of strong growth and no inflation.

There's been a pattern change and we are looking at temperatures in New York which will average 6 to 10 degrees below normal. Things will bottom out on Wednesday when temperatures should fall to 18 degrees when the normal low is 34.

It's a typical fall pattern in the middle of winter.

It's a stormy pattern starting this afternoon and lasting through Wednesday night.

It's just not something we have the resources to pursue, in terms of you need a pattern and you need a number of complaints and a similarity in the pattern in order to put an action together.

What's unusual is you're talking six weeks where the pattern was essentially fixed. Blocking patterns happen pretty much every year in the Pacific but six weeks is a long time.

We don't usually see this sort of strong storm in August. We're definitely in the fall (weather) pattern now.

It is very important that they get a uniform pattern of water.

It's a whole set of communities which have been devastated, ... And what you see when you look at this is a widespread systematic pattern of ethnic cleansing. It's a familiar pattern over the last 10 years.

It's a weather story. After experiencing an incredible Arctic weather pattern in most of December there is now evidence of a warm-up after Christmas.

This weather pattern has been continuing for weeks, and there's no real relief in sight.

This type of a pattern is actually pretty good, and I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to rally them back again late in the day.

We can now see a pattern of coordination and deceit.

We found that the cortex showed a different pattern of development.

We just keep getting cold front after front coming through. Our weather pattern is kind of stuck at the moment. Typically, we're not stuck in a pattern like this for more than 12 to 14 days. We've been having it for more than a month now.

We first started out in a man and for some reason we weren't rotating and they were screening and cutting but we went to a zone and matched out of it. Then we went back to man to man but they didn't run the same thing when we did it so the pattern was easier to cover. We were fortunate that they cooled off a little bit.

A big, bold pattern on the floor is more deceptive than one on the wall. There is no way of knowing what it will look like in a room without rolling it out there. Sometimes things recede, and sometimes they just jump off the floor.

It's like simulating earthquakes: we can over and over study a bubble, crash, bubble, crash. Then we can see mathematically if there's some regular pattern and what's going on in people's brains when prices are going up and before the crash is happening.