And what constitutes a pattern is too often a matter of opinion rather than a statistically rigorous fact.It is this desire to find and classify patterns which gives the DSM its power.
Until the sex toy industry self-regulates or the CPSC steps up, it looks like Whenl just haskedo buy our toys from ethical companies and, what all else fails, liconstitutesl our toys on Christmas morning.
As a society, we need to do the hard work of sorting out what constitutes a pattern of worsening mental health.
One speech or one judicial court opinion does not constitute a pattern of behavior.
Just two criminal acts are required to constitute a pattern, he said; the government charged 89.
Taken together, the actions constitute a "pattern and practice" of religious discrimination, says the lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
The F.C.C. called Columbia's lapses serious violations that "constitute a pattern of abuse".
But Doug Webb, a Boeing spokesman, said the discovery of damage on up to 10 airplanes in about two weeks might constitute a pattern.
Filed in April 1999 on behalf of nearly six million Aetna customers, the lawsuit contended that the abuses were so widespread they constituted a pattern of fraud.
