In fact, one may argue that the industry pattern for decades has been a cycle of booms and busts.
One reason is that seasonal adjustment is tricky in such countries where the shift from agriculture to industry changes the pattern of seasonality over time, says Mr Kroeber.
The regulators were concerned not only about individual banks but also about the systemic risks associated with excessive industry-wide concentrations (of commercial real estate or nontraditional mortgages) or an industry-wide pattern of certain practices (for example, in underwriting exotic mortgages).
By the standards of the rest of the industry, the circuit pattern is quite crude, and the transistor is 25 times as large as those found in conventional, modern chips.
We have seen a pervasive pattern in every industry that has been transformed through disruption, and health care is no exception.
Over the past 40 years, the airline industry has fallen into a pattern of cyclical bankruptcies, the root cause of which is our unstable dollar.
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As DOJ gains expertise related to such industry usage and establishes a pattern of addressing issues common to different investigations in the same manner over time, the lives of outside counsel inevitably will become easier.
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That has set the pattern for the industry: small new label (Chris Blackwell's Island records) discovers new talent (Bob Marley, Roxy Music, U2), turns it into stardust, becomes big label, sells out to the suits (PolyGram).
TBM's founder, Anand Sharma, is convinced that the car industry will gradually move to a pattern where most of a car will be made in modules that are simply snapped together in small assembly lines close to the consumer, where details can be adapted to local tastes.
The shift pattern favoured by the gas industry (12 hours on, 12 hours off, for two weeks, followed by a fortnight's break) encourages the use of stimulants, including methamphetamine.
Whoever signs the contract first sets the pattern for the rest of the industry.
Now, everyone in the industry is talking about this ominous bear flag pattern, which is likely to make its rounds in the more mainstream media this weekend (along with the news about Greece).
Unfortunately this pattern has been emerging in many other firms, in multiple industry sectors, over the past couple of years.
It was precisely this pattern that gave rise to the biggest merger in the history of the aerospace industry, the 1997 combination of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas.
When the pattern was repeated the next year with charges of market timing and late trading in the mutual-fund industry, rival regulators again attacked Mr. Spitzer's office.
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