"He is carrying out, let's say, assimilating as he would say, in the spirit of battle, but they're complex treatments... that should at some point begin to close the cycle of treatment of his illness, " Maduro said.

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"This would really close the fuel cycle for us, " says Tammy Orr, the chief executive of the joint venture.

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Since we are close to the 2014 election cycle, more muddle-through is likely.

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Since the 2010 Office suite is not as close to the end of its life cycle as Windows 7, and we expect the revenues from this segment to continue to grow.

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Within the limitations of the publisher-driven model of the current cycle of gaming, this is flying close to the sun.

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Stock markets sold off, a Credit Suisse report concluded that the commodity super-cycle underpinned by China has drawn to a close, and economists worried about the implications for the already slow economic recovery in the United States.

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Then, on Nov. 1, his couch-potato sabbatical will draw to a close, as it does every fall, and another 11-month training cycle will begin anew.

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Andy Rothman , the China Macro Strategist for CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, believes that China is near the peak in food-price inflation and close to the peak in the overall rise in the Consumer Price Index for this cycle.

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The weekly chart for SPY shifts to positive at the end of this week given a weekly close above the five-week modified moving average at 120.89, otherwise the weekly cycle remains neutral.

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