Arlene Mershell, 46, of Briarcliff Manor, said her stomach-reduction surgery kicked off a trend, reversing a pattern of obesity that had plagued her family for generations.
What's more, the committee concluded, the numerical targets may have been only partially responsible for reversing a pattern of higher grading.
However, almost every significant economic figure that has come out over the past week has come in below expectations, reversing a pattern from earlier in the year.
Peter D. Rettaliata, an aviation executive in Bay Shore, predicted that many Long Island companies would be bidding for military contracts in the fight against terrorism, reversing a pattern that has existed for a generation.
The area's suburban ring continued to gain residents and jobs, but its core urban areas gained in those areas too, at nearly identical rates, reversing a pattern that began in 1945, the study found.
One panel member, Eric Goldstein, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said that the state agency to which the panel reports, the Department of Environmental Conservation, would need to reverse a pattern of staff cuts in recent years to oversee the new drilling properly.
It is also important that the SEC, following Chairman Cox's departure, reverse a pattern of recent staff decisions closing the door on shareholder access to the proxy ballot.
Reversing a pattern of unhealthy thoughts and habits that have accumulated over a lifetime requires time and patience.
In a potentially serious setback for the U.S. economy, hiring unexpectedly stalled in November while the nation's unemployment rate jumped to 9.8%, reversing a pattern of slow but steady improvement in the prospects for American workers.
That reversed a long-term pattern in which the Westwood school had previously bested USC.
