Combining a qualitative analysis and a cluster analysis, we identify five patterns of budget design and budget use: the yardstick budget, the coercive budget, the interactive budget, the loose budget and the indicative budget.
The results show a distinct difference in the patterns of budgeted and actual spending across IT and non-IT variables.
Gene Sperling, who was President Bill Clinton's top economic adviser, said he detected in the Bush administration "a disturbing pattern of using budget numbers that are compelled more by politics than fiscal prudence, more by convenience than by consistency".
The pattern of protein budget was, however, completely different (Fig. 8b).
On the global scale, the Congressional pattern of kicking the budget can down the road is paralleled by the lack of concrete results after two decades of climate treaty negotiations.
When considering all activities that the organism performs over the full temperature range, NEA-cod has a complicated pattern of aerobic scope budgeting that changes with temperature (figure 2 a; see electronic supplementary material).
"Given the negative working capital position of the school, and a networkwide pattern of significant expense-side budget variances, the long-term viability of this school" remains in question, Mr. Chuang wrote in both schools' probation orders.
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is facing a Democratic challenger who is trying to link Mr. Grassley's vote for the bailout to a pattern of support for bigger budget deficits.
Therefore it's time -- obviously on March 29 of 2011 it's way past time -- for the Obama administration, the Senate and House Republicans to agree on this year's Budget and to begin to set a pattern of conduct for the 2012 Budget.
Continuing the pattern of the past few budgets, Mr Osborne will lift the personal tax-free allowance by £500 in the 2014-15 fiscal year, to £10,500.
