It then formed a big wedge, broke down in April, went flat in the May-July period, and then had an ugly 3-day decline out of the base pattern in August.

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When a stock or index breaks out of a multi-month consolidation pattern like that wedge, the next move in the direction of the break generally lasts about the same length of time that it took to form the pattern.

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Keep an eye on Research in Motion (BBRY) to potentially be the next highly-shorted stock to ignite higher out of a lower level pattern.

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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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The figures published annually by the ONS show the pattern of long-term massive movements of people in and out of the UK appear to be continuing.

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Its reaction with the odour molecules changes a detector's electrical resistance, and this signal is fed into a neural net (the closest that computer technology has got to imitating the pattern-recognising abilities of networks of nerve cells) to work out what is being smelt.

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Air New Zealand studied household furniture and, in its warehouse lab, experimented with bunk beds, staggered coach seating in kind of a tic-tac-toe pattern that would allow passengers to stretch out more with legs protruding between seats, or even stacking seats atop each other in the coach cabin.

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Comprised of a surface pattern of triangles-like those in the main theater, but made in this case out of 1, 067 thin aluminum panels, mounted on the support structure with open joints-the light-blue facade looks razor-sharp but creates the impression of a super-light floating skin dematerialized against the sky: another visual reference in the architecture to the infinite thinness of the moving image.

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