With almost no one-handers raising Grand Slam trophies, fewer one-handers are being emulated by juniors.
"It has been a very big success story, and it's a strategy that is being emulated across the industry".
The trailblazer has been Santander, but its relentless effort to make its systems exactly the same everywhere is being emulated by Citigroup, HSBC and Standard Chartered.
The qualities of traditional 100-watt incandescent bulbs, for example, are being emulated by 72-watt halogen bulbs, which are more energy efficient.
In Russia, Vladimir Putin approved a bill that outlaws the "promotion" of homosexuality, a stigmatising move that is being emulated in other ex-Soviet countries: Kyrgyzstan may be next.
The Met's innovative high-definition live broadcasts to movie theaters, for example, which are being emulated by several international companies, lost money at first.
Improving energy efficiency is going to become increasingly important as data centres already suck out 3% of electricity from the US grid and their rising thirst for power is being emulated globally.
The hyper-modern skyline of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with its mismatched skyscrapers looking as if they were hurled down at the Persian Gulf from outer space, is being emulated in Beirut and other cities.
True, long skirts and dresses are an acquired taste, one that may be cultivated over time by poring over fashion magazines and scanning the Web for street shots of style-setters like the model Abbey Lee Kershaw, whose filmy ensembles are being emulated by legions of the would-be hip.
Maybe I'm being hubristic, but I feel that Miller Theater showed people that that kind of programming could be successful, and could build a new audience — not a specialist audience, but a brand new audience — and that it's being emulated all over the city.
It's no surprise, then, that ZYB is being emulated.
