Yet even as Mr Cabral's administration seems to be breaking this pattern, there are signs of it resurfacing elsewhere.

ECONOMIST: Brazil

Unless the Bush administration moves quickly to change the pattern, it will find itself slipping into a vicious cycle.

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Webb's diplomacy appears to be part of a pattern being established under the Obama administration.

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The site, with its monumental structural remains, street pattern, covered drains, baths, wells and all necessary features needed for sanitation and administration, is known as the first urban centre of the Indus civilization.

UNESCO: Safeguarding Moenjodaro

This concern about the Bush Administration's approach to decision-making is heightened by several previous actions -- actions that suggest a pattern of behavior of which the non-summit idea appears to be but the most recent example.

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