Some believe the world will end on 21 December, the end of a 5, 125-year-long cycle in the ancient Mayan calendar.
The centrepiece is a teocalli, a massive votive sculpture in the shape of a temple platform, built in 1507 to mark the end of a 52-year cycle in the Mexica calendar.
In the New Asia, the heavy end of the production cycle--steel and all that--will do badly.
This will ensure an end to the incessant cycle of inflation-busting fares rises.
Observers of America's Federal Reserve picked over the minutes of November's Federal Open Market Committee meeting and predicted that the central bank will soon end its cycle of interest-rate rises.
Traders suggest that the Fed's indication that it may be nearing the end of its cycle of interest-rate increases will probably make the volatility and trading volume jump even more.
Our big macro call of the end of the previous cycle and the start of the new cycle from August-October of last year continues to be spot on.
Market-leading phones are most vulnerable at the end of their life cycle.
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Markdowns for electronics are usually on last-generation products, and if products are nearing the end of their sales life cycle.
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We were shown a lot of concept art and told about big ideas the company has for the title, including a decade-long release cycle which would run at least through the end of the next console generation.
On 25 October 2011, the European Parliament debated whether to "discharge" the accounts, which formally brings to an end the budgetary cycle of the EU institutions, and allows MEPs to approve - or criticise - the way in which an institution spent its money in a particular year.
A-18 that Boeing is trying to sell in land-locked Central Europe is a naval variant which is nearing the end of its production cycle.
ZTE's Trusted Delivery Model provides for a thorough end-to-end security evaluation of ZTE's software, firmware and hardware throughout the equipment life cycle.
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It has already filed an injunction to ban the sale of eight of the patent-infringing Samsung devices in the U.S. If Apple succeeds in doing so, Samsung may see only a limited near-term impact considering that these devices are fairly old and are nearing the end of their product cycle.
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Apple might therefore be looking to decrease the upgrade cycle of the iPhone to give Samsung less of a window to gain high-end market share with the S4.
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Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
Given all the discoveries that we have made from an up-close investigation of these ocean ridges, we can't help but wonder what we might find at the far end of the same plate tectonic cycle where seafloor is drawn back into the Earth's interior at deep-ocean trenches.
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