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Answers varied a great deal based on the perceived intrusiveness of the question, but one pattern became clear: it was possible to get more people to answer that they had engaged in a given behavior if their own behavior was approached indirectly.
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All of these claimants were saying, lethal injection, lethal injection, and so the question becomes: what is the pattern here?
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The case is particularly interesting because the Supreme Court avoided the usual pattern of trying to narrow the question to an interpretation of federal law and instead instructed the parties to answer whether the Constitution bars such suits.
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In each case the level of the hormone in question changed in a way that matched the pattern that is seen in pregnant women which is, presumably, why men experience many of the same pre-birth symptoms as women do.
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And the question is, can we break out of that pattern?
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There was a brief thaw in relations when the Cold War ended, because with the Red Navy gone the U.S. Navy needed to highlight its relevance to fighting ashore, but the more common pattern is for the Navy to constantly question the requirement for Marine assets like vertical-takeoff jets and maritime prepositioning ships (which store warfighting supplies in likely areas of conflict).
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In regards to your particular question, bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is nothing but a description of a certain pattern of symptoms.
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Their idealised version of this question was to ask how two signal chemicals, starting from opposite ends of an embryo, could result in a pattern that looked like the French flag (ie, three different coloured vertical stripes).
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