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Although the business cycle has not disappeared, flexibility has made the economy more resilient to shocks and more stable overall during the past couple of decades,

A major concern of users of this form of valve is its reliability, and the high costs associated with in-service failures and down-time. Our design goals were to increase the typical cycle life and reliability that users can expect from a rising plug valve, while also creating a cost effective solution.

Although manufacturing activity is still expanding, momentum in the manufacturing sector has clearly faded. This report confirms that the FOMC was correct in pausing their tightening cycle at last week's meeting.

A lot of people were pinning their hopes on Vista to drive a PC upgrade cycle this year.

They knew he was a confession machine who would confess to anything. That's what happened that started this long cycle that Max has gotten here.

The year is starting off with strong M&A activity, and part of what's driving the economic cycle is consolidation. It does provide some support for the market.

You can't have the regime pursuing enrichment on any scale, because pursuing (that) allows them to master the technology, complete the fuel cycle and then that technology can easily be applied to a clandestine program for making nuclear weapons.

This pretty much fulfills the cycle of what can happen. I know (Matt) is excited to get there.

This prediction of an active solar cycle suggests we're potentially looking at more communications disruptions, more satellite failures, possible disruptions of electrical grids and blackouts, more dangerous conditions for astronauts.

This past summer, CBS and I began to discuss this matter in earnest -- and we decided that the close of the election cycle would be an appropriate time (to leave the broadcast.)

There wasn't anything that the Fed said or did to imply that the easing cycle was over.

There was no incremental news that came out of the meeting. McDonald's has reached maturity in its life cycle and it can't turn around, while its growth may be on the decline as consumers move toward healthier choices.

There will be a return to a positive cycle in beef. That could normalize earnings. Share prices in the mid-$20s is a possibility and that is a long way from where they are trading now.

There's a chance the euro has seen its high for the cycle and Asian currencies have further to adjust.

There's a legitimate upgrade cycle coming. It's just getting started.

This is the price of living in Florida during this awful and incredible cycle we're in. We've had eight hurricanes in two years.

This low rate cycle has been going on for three years now. It's not uncommon to see people who've refinanced two or three times over this cycle.

This joint development project will help accelerate the cycle from fundamental research to commercialization based on detailed feasibility studies of potential technologies, device structures, innovative materials and unique processing tools.

There's a strong handset replacement cycle going on right now that will generate the next phase of growth, ... First it was color and camera phones and now it will be higher resolution and video enabled phones that will be prevalent this holiday season.

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

There is talk that the unemployment rate will fall to a new cycle low of 4.6 percent.

At least a little more rapid cycle time would be appropriate,

As value investors, we start with the fact that they are historically cheap and at all-time lows relative to the market, ... Secondly, we think there's an opportunity in the next year or two for the pricing cycle to improve. Thirdly, as the financial services deregulation bill makes its way through Congress, we think there's opportunity for some bank takeovers of insurance companies.

It's Fed watch day, so we're experiencing a bit of anxiety before the announcement. Of course, any indication that the Fed will end its tightening cycle could propel the stocks higher this afternoon. Hopefully we'll see an indication of some type of pause.

It's fair to say that in this past cycle or two, we'll make some great strides. That could include contributing to some candidate victories.

It's a sign that the cycle is starting to turn. The job offer ratio improved for the second month, and that's usually a fairly reliable measure of market conditions.

It was a spiritual experience. Part of a cycle of giving and receiving.

It's bad to surprise the Street. It's harmful to the stock because investors are looking for the rewards of this big product cycle next year flowing through to earnings.

It's absolutely stunning and upsetting to hear. He's certainly one of the major playwrights that America has produced. The only small blessing is that he was able to complete this incredible cycle of plays. He set himself a task some 20 years ago and completed it in a way that no other American playwright ever has, including Eugene O'Neill.

It's about the way the brewing cycle goes. So much is tied to the harvest.

It's a godsend to her family - it's a stabilizing event that will forever change her children's standard. It stops the poverty cycle when families are able to become homeowners.

It's a question of velocity - people want more and more speed and companies are more and more aggressive, ... It is now a two-month cycle and if you enjoy what you do and want to be first in the class, you have to speed up a lot.

It really starts us on a cycle of growth that runs through December. It's amazing. We have a stronger fall season than before (the sales tax holiday) was put in place.

It runs on a cycle of a half an hour, ... Given what happened. It is unlikely we will be getting voice information from the (cockpit voice recorder).

It puts us back to a four-year cycle with eight potential visits by Pac-10 and Big Ten teams.

It is worth it even if only the financial balance sheet for society is considered: a few years of investment versus a subsequent lifetime of productive activity. Perhaps a cycle prevented with children's lives changed. Health problems averted. Addiction and crime avoided as ways to cope with hopelessness.

It's usually not about the money. There are times in the economic cycle when people like to say they paid a lot of money for a house and then there are times when getting a good deal is a trend.

It's nothing new to this team, especially having played Minnesota. We just have to break them down on the cycle and get it to the net. That's how you beat the 1-2-2, get it in and wear them down.

It looks like the market will be focused on the interest rate cycle this week and finish off with non farm payrolls on Friday, so many market participants are expecting this week to determine the direction of U.S. indices for the remainder of the year.

It looks like Microsoft missed the major upgrade cycle from 2004 to early this year. Windows Vista would have been a much better story in 2005 than in 2006, or, realistically, 2007.

It looks increasingly like the Fed rate hike cycle is coming to an end, and that's been the focus. ... The market is just looking for an excuse to sell the dollar.

It's another piece of the ongoing trend of a slowing economy, ... The credit tightening cycle is nearing an end and we have the equity markets celebrating that.

It's a normal cycle to integrate the solutions.

It's a positive environment for Canadian stocks right now. We seem to be going into an extended cycle of rising commodity prices. Takeovers are creating a lot of action, supporting valuations.

It's part of a broader trend. Nationwide there are markets that have a ways to go, especially in the Midwest. But we're much closer to the end of the cycle than the peak. Now we're watching how it plays out -- whether it's going to smash into a wall or just level off for a while.

It's pretty typical for trends in general elections. Through their cycle of a term they start at a high and go down just before the election.

Doing as much as we can in the critical early years of the Olympic planning cycle will ensure that London and the U.K. get the best possible long-term benefits from the new Olympic facilities and services,

Construction is at record high levels throughout the West. It is likely that as home building cools, those states that have seen construction hiring booms will record job losses as the cycle begins to subside.

Conditions will be similar to 2005, as the nation's economy continues to expand. There are imbalances in the economy that could slow growth as early as the second half of 2006 or even bring the expansion cycle to an early conclusion.

The new Violence Against Women Act provides a comprehensive approach to combating domestic violence and sexual assault, ... It stiffens penalties for repeat offenders, provides more money for vital services and will help battered women get the assistance and support they need. It also focuses on breaking the cycle of violence through education and helping rural victims in under-served areas.

The news cycle has moved on and I don't want the public to forget about those who were affected by Katrina or to believe that everything is fine now.

The minutes confirm that the tightening cycle is indeed drawing to a close.

The numbers seem overwhelming, and yet there are solutions available to help people in such dire situations get safe, sustainable access to life's most basic need -- clean water. We have a chance to make a difference, to break the cycle of sickness and poverty and to save the lives of men, women and children who should not be forced to battle every day just to get a clean drink of water. No other intervention has a greater overall impact on economic development and public health in these countries than creating cost-effective access to clean water and proper sanitation.

Everybody has really stepped it up tremendously for season two of Unique Whips. The jobs are bigger, Will's roster of celebrity clients is better, and the overall entertainment value of the series far surpasses the first cycle of shows. Just as Castro and his crew continue to define the automotive lifestyle with their amazing work, so, too, does this program continue to be the perfect vehicle for conveying that lifestyle to the SPEED audience.

It's not going to do any good for the pumpkin crop this year. They're already gone, you might say. They're powerful smaller and everything. Apples? It's too late to do anything with apples this year. They have done their cycle of growing.

The boom part of the cycle is over. Most of the gains this time around are behind us. Now the question is how much of those gains do we get to keep.

The bearishness is overdone. This is probably the part of the cycle where you'd do well owning auto stocks if you have some patience.

The Australian dollar is relatively more sensitive to the global growth cycle -- not just commodities, but leverage to trade with Asia, especially China.

The airlines aren't doing particularly well, but they need new jets. A new replacement cycle for planes is just starting to kick in.

That is one of the reasons why we think that the Sharon plan provides such an opportunity, because it offers a chance of breaking the cycle of violence, withdrawing from territory, abandoning settlements, giving Palestinians control over land, and reinvigorating institutions that can meet the needs of the people,

That is that the president feels he's got to have somebody to blame, and he's doing it indirectly by asking Tenet to leave. ... I don't think he would pull the plug on President Bush in the middle of an election cycle without having been asked by the president to do that.

Strong underlying fundamentals are in place, and we believe this is a business cycle that has staying power.

Sun's stock has already taken huge blows, is one of the better names in our group and should ultimately benefit from a strong product cycle and an expanding solutions approach, ... For now, however, we think the economic cycle probably has the upper hand.

It's in a bad cycle and they're going to come out of it in three to five years.

It's an earnings season very much in line with what we anticipated. We're at the point in the economic cycle and in this earnings cycle where a little bit of a slowdown is not too surprising. You're up against some pretty tough comparisons over the last couple of years.

It's an area with some good growth opportunities. There's relatively low exposure to economic cycle downturns in health care. And there's relatively low exposure in many of those stocks to rising commodity and energy costs.

It was a big win. We controlled play through most of the game. The shots on goal (39-10) showed that. It was a scary game for a while. We were able to cycle the puck well and hold possession of the puck.

I want someone with a national reputation. I want somebody who is a good manager of people and who is a change agent. I think the one-term governor hurts transportation more than anything else because if you change out secretaries of transportation and VDOT commissioners on a four-year cycle you just don't get the continuity you need on the transportation side. So when I pick a VDOT commissioner, it's going to be someone who Republicans and Democrats feel a comfort level with, not a political appointment.

I try to be as disciplined as I possibly can. I try to live a fairly kind of clean life. I do yoga; I cycle and do weights and swim. I do whatever it takes.

It was a cycle that needed to be broken,

It will depend more on the phase of the business cycle and the credibility of the institution, namely the central bank, and the person.

It will be interesting to see if they decide to break the cycle and release a patch earlier in response to the increasing number of exploits of this problem.

They ... continue to drum home the point that this isn't going to be a huge extended tightening cycle with them pointing out, yet again, the risks beyond 2006.

The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations into a cycle of misery.

The US currency has come under pressure on speculation of a pause in the US monetary tightening cycle together with the increase in the US current account deficit, which the market usually shrugs off.

the urgency of breaking the cycle of violence.

The vehicles are replaced based on the useful life cycle of the equipment.

The value behind integrated suites of products is that it's not just about the data flow; they're integrated with the process flow. You're getting better data and you're pooling more data across that network, so you're getting better optimization. But the real big value is cycle time.

They cycle well against anybody. You look at their top six forwards, they're big men. They can wear you down. It's hard to get it back once they start cycling. It takes a lot of energy to get the puck back sometimes. It takes away a lot of your offense.

They are not said to be kings, who die in conflict, and then enter again the cycle of reincarnation.

they would be willing to have the U.S. participate in the fuel cycle at the front and back end.

There's this almost universal sense that we're in this big cap-ex spending cycle and the big stocks should be moving on that, but they haven't been.

The restaurant industry has experienced two big turns. There was the growth cycle in 2000 followed by the big downturn that's still going on.

This is just the way it goes: there's always a cycle with music - it goes up and it goes down, it goes risque and it goes back, it goes loud then it goes soft, then it goes rock and it goes pop.

Once the equity market sees the end of the economic cycle isn't too far away, people will be more comfortable buying stocks. The market will probably retrace a lot of its lost ground. I think there will be a December rally that will carry through first and second quarters of next year.

The NEVER FLAT has staying power and it's great to see Spalding's constant cycle of innovation continue. Innovation has been integral in maintaining Spalding's 100-plus years of brand strength. NEVER FLAT looks like another dramatic step in breakthrough technology with product benefits that truly matter to the consumer.

the need to end the cycle of violence is still there.

It's no good saving people today just to see them killed tomorrow. They need help to escape the vicious cycle they find themselves in.

It's reasonable to assume that equity markets will make money this year. There's nothing like the end of an interest-rate cycle to get investors' juices flowing.

As you watch sports franchises and teams, they go in cycles, and I think we're now emerging from - I'm not going to say a down cycle - but I'm certainly going to say a cycle where we weren't at our best. I think this team has already worked very hard to pull us out of that.

That said, we continue to favour GM over Ford due to the former's more favourable 2006 product cycle and its more aggressive restructuring approach.

That said, we continue to favor GM over Ford due to the former's more favorable 2006 product cycle and its more aggressive restructuring approach.

Evidence of this active cycle was demonstrated this year as the Atlantic Basin produced the equivalent of more than two entire hurricane seasons over the course of one.

The lack of such short-term borrowing thus far in the current cycle seemingly contradicts the notion that a brisk expansion is under way.

The key to breaking the cycle for many people is to begin the process of questioning spending, and to not just continue to spend the way you historically have. If you're spending too much and saving too little, clearly you've got to change something.

The last thing you want if you are in a testing cycle is a major interruption.

The merger and acquisition cycle isn't over yet and I don't think we're at the peak yet because people aren't gearing up to do silly things. We still have a year or two years of sensible consolidation to go.

The metal cycle is still intact, with commodity prices holding very well.

The million-dollar cycle hasn't completely played itself out in the more affordable areas, which include the Inland Empire. There is more to happen there.

the Internet; changing the energy cycle from petroleum-based to solar-electric; and moving into space.