Her father would arrange the condiments on the family dinner table to show his kids the pattern of the solar system.

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The blisters, each with its own bar code, move to a collating table and are rearranged in a pattern before getting bagged.

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As the table below details, this was a pretty consistent pattern of trade-off during the much of this period: When the market went down, you would have been better off had you rebalanced each year.

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