This could prove a template for other banks that have become entangled with "monoline" guarantors.If the CDO sale is Merrill's long-hoped-for "kitchen sink" moment, it comes at a cost.
The FTC's victory with Sysco and US Foods may prove a template for regulators in defining national marketplaces that can be used to challenge overly aggressive mergers.
That DIY ethos, as old as art itself, also proved prescient – a template for making work in an age of austerity.
Now the emphasis has shifted to America, another mediocre international performer, yet already proving a dangerous template for aggressive fast-paced reform over here.
What remains is the hope that addition by subtraction, combined with a doubling down on defense — a formula that helped Detroit win three titles in 15 years — might prove a worthwhile template for a small-market team like Memphis.
The Clintons' Arkansas experience would prove to be a template for their national approach.
A few miles down the road, and despite not having a matchday fans' prayer room, Aston Villa employ a unique system which could prove to be a template for other Premier League clubs to consider.
This brave and popular new complex of permeable, public city centre buildings may prove to be a template for town and city centres elsewhere in Britain, cold or hot, north or south.
This indicated that the azoxy motif could prove useful as a template for anthelmintic discovery, possibly creating a class of anthelmintic with novel skeletons, a potential new mode of action, and providing further insight for rational drug design.
The music industry's unraveling has proven to be a template for others — publishing, for one — and here music's shift from cultural barometer to background whine is used as an analogy for the movements, the changes, the general selling out that most us eventually do.
