While some participants learned that the next-generation model followed that pattern, the FS-E50, others were told that the new model had a new name: the Spectra.

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The family will have fallen outside its expected spending pattern model, and an investigation might be triggered.

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Stock markets also reflect the development of an economy, including the growth model, structure and pattern.

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But Celebration also proposes a model for a sustainable pattern of American life in the future, with recycling programmes and Internet infrastucture built in, and educational experiments at the local schools.

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It turns out that this is part of a larger pattern within the model that sees San Jose as the clear favorite to win the entire playoff tournament no matter who their opponents are along the way.

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First comes the idea, then the sketching, then the draping of white toile (muslin), first over a mannequin and later over a live model, and finally the cutting of samples on a pattern that translates the temporary magic of the toile into a permanent garment in the fabric and colours of the designer's choice.

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The classic pattern was rediscovered by fashionistas in early 2000, after Burberry started playing it up, even dressing model Kate Moss in a teeny checked bikini in ads.

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