Until the financial crisis, the traditional pattern of bull markets began with the banks.

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Mr Jacobs collaborated with trendy artists like Stephen Sprouse, Julie Verhoeven and Takashi Murakami to spruce up the company's traditional pattern and logo.

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But the Communication Workers Union has said it was unreasonable to change staff's traditional working pattern on Christmas Eve.

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There is more emphasis on song now while it used to be the traditional hymn-sermon-hymn pattern.

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It has started to fall into the pattern of the typical traditional business: it grows by acquiring other companies, like YouTube.

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Do they realize that they are watching, not just individual companies stumble, but a vivid demonstration of a broader pattern, namely that traditional management no longer fits the world in which we are living today?

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In traditional technical analysis this is a well-known reversal pattern.

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All are traditional Democratic issues, but in concentrating on them Latinos are following the pattern of earlier immigrants: they are adopting middle-class American patterns of political behaviour, rather than putting their ethnic identity above everything else.

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