The probes seem unlikely to find a general pattern of wrongdoing at Berkshire.

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Osterholm's study suggests this has been a general pattern in American public health history with relation to the flu vaccine.

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What I can tell you is that it has been a pretty general pattern.

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The two texts comprise both an assessment of the current situation and a call to action, in the face of violence that appears to be rising dramatically, following a more general pattern of increased attacks on civilians and aid workers in recent years.

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Together the two reports offer both an assessment of the current situation and a call to action in the face of violence that appears to be rising dramatically, following a more general pattern of increased attacks on civilians and aid workers in recent years.

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However, commercials run this year represent a break with this general pattern.

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Japan represents the cutting edge of this lurch into what may in a decade be the general East Asian pattern.

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Mahathir's decision to leave the senior leadership largely unchanged appears to be part of a plan to enter into a holding pattern until the UMNO general assembly next year.

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"And the nomination of Mr. Koh appears to be the beginning of a verytroubling pattern, " Lamborn told me, citing Justice Department nominees Dawn Johnsen ( assistant attorney general for legal counsel) and David Ogden (deputy attorney general) as cases of high-level Obama appointees who have histories of praising international law over U.S.-made law.

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