These precedents, such as they are, give few grounds for optimism, he says.
Advocates of the bear market hypothesis point to historical precedents, such as false dawns in the stock markets during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
In contrast to past precedents such as the creation of Israel or Liberia, it is not obvious that "refugee" would be a sufficiently strong unifying identity to encourage disparate populations to live together.
Supporters of the NDEA pointed to federal legislative precedents, such as the Morrill Act in 1862, which granted land to the states that they could then sell to finance the establishment of colleges, and the Smith-Hughes Act in 1917, which funded vocational agricultural education programs.
There have been sophisticated platform precedents such as the Real-Time Delphi (RTD) by the Millennium Project [52] in Europe and X Project [53] in Korea.
The first generation established design precedents, such as the 9.7-inch screen size and button placement, that have persisted through all models.
With precedents such as Pavlov's dog and Skinner's mice on his side, Shermer explains how, in an attempt to make sense of our surroundings and situations in life, our brains are programmed to create patterns, even where there are none.
There are precedents such as the Friends of the Upper East Side's exhibit and catalog entitled Modern Architecture on the Upper East Side/Landmarks of the Future, but broader more inclusive debate merits ignition by local stewards.
