Even larger leaps in sizing technology are being made by companies like Acustom Apparel, which uses 3D body scanners along with pattern-making software to scale the creation of custom-fitted clothing at a digestible price point.

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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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That's what our agenda was about -- making sure that we were changing that pattern.

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Sareen comes from a family of tech-savvy fashionistas who created Tukatech, a firm specializing in digital pattern making and 3D prototyping systems for apparel makers.

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Pattern recognition is the phrase I hear most often among VCs when describing their decision-making process.

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The pattern in the on-balance volume (OBV) looks toppy considering that while XLB was making higher highs, the OBV was forming lower highs (line d).

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Belcher's colleague Paula Hammond, an expert in making highly ordered, self-assembling polymers and other materials, created a pattern of tiny posts, onto which the researchers deposited several layers of polymers that act as the battery's electrolyte.

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If a weaver is going to invest six weeks in making a 4-foot-by-7-foot rug, she usually picks a pattern guaranteed to please an average buyer--somebody who doesn't want to be intellectually challenged by a floor covering.

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"They are just making things up and selling their predictions, " Mr. Kengkard, wearing a leopard-skin pattern hat, said in one recent TV appearance.

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