But some economists said the pattern of rising self-employment could be a factor of the pickup in building work over recent months.
The think-tank report that predicts a wave of outbound Chinese investment also identified a pattern of rising anti-Chinese sentiment in Congress.
Health care funds, in fact, have long hewed to a pattern of rising sharply and then plunging -- often after investors have piled into them.
JOSH BARBANEL Correction: October 2, 2005, Sunday An article on Sept. 18 about taxes in New York City described the pattern of rising property taxes imprecisely.
SNAP (food stamps) as a percentage of GDP: Again, we see a pattern of rising during slumps, falling thereafter, and no hint of a ratchet effect.
This pattern of rising and falling herd immunity explains why epidemic diseases tend to occur in waves i.e., exhibit a periodicity in prevalence.
Some, for example, will look at a past pattern of rising prices, and assume that the market will continue to skyrocket.
Human history in Julius Caesar seems to follow a pattern of rise and fall, in a way that is cyclical rather than divinely purposeful.
The first is that to have a 50/50 chance of avoiding tipping our eco-system into an irreversible pattern of rising temperatures we can only risk putting about 700 gigatonnes more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Other exporters cited similar increases, part of a broader pattern of rising prices for goods from Asia that has prompted some economists to warn that the United States was starting to import inflation from the region.
