The final vote on Thursday followed the same pattern as votes on other legislation at the end of the previous Congress, including the agreement to avoid some impacts of the fiscal cliff.

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Mr Brunstrom said there is no particularly sound logic to the pattern of proscription created by Britain's 1971 drugs legislation.

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If a similar plan is indeed being worked out behind the scenes in Wisconsin that would fit the pattern of numerous Tea-Party controlled states enacting strikingly similar legislation all at the same time across the country.

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Legislation eventually righted some of those wrongs, but defined-benefit schemes are not well suited to the pattern of many people's lives.

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