Despite paying initial lip-service to the need to counteract the debilitating oil-price cycle by saving money during the boom years, he has virtually emptied the fund set up in 1998 for that purpose.
Mr Ferguson also called for greater enforcement against drivers parking on cycle lanes and drivers who stop in the cycle-only area by traffic lights.
And, according to figures collated by the Times - which has run a high-profile cycle safety campaign since one of its reporters was hit by a lorry and left in a coma - 104 cyclists have been killed so far this year.
The weaknesses of neo-classical free market economics have been exposed by the credit super-cycle, whilst the likelihood of a return to Keynesian management is remote (not least because of existing burdens of debt and welfare commitments).
Warren White of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and his colleagues were the first to find that sea-surface temperatures across the globe swing up and down in a 10-to 12-year period that lags behind the solar cycle by two to three years.
And while you won't find the Jetson's Food-A-Rac-A-Cycle in stores, the television dinner meant that by 1962, a future where machines produced a variety of tasty food at the push of a button seemed just around the corner.
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.
He was on the third lap of the 10-lap, 66-mile (106km) cycle event in South Gloucestershire, organised by the Bristol Road Club, when he came off.
San Francisco-based Businesswire and New York's PRNewswire , a unit of United Business Media (nasdaq: UNEWY - news - people ), are also getting hit by the cycle.
It is a never-ending cycle fueled by eager reporters, fanboy bloggers and a company that is reluctant to talk about its products until just before their release.
Perlman says the process consumes about 15% of the energy contained in the coal going in, far more efficient than the integrated gasification combined-cycle plants promoted by General Electric.
Perlman says the process consumes about 15% of the energy contained in the coal going in, far more efficient than the integrated gasification combined-cycle plants promoted by General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ).
But this latest gridlock had the AMA on high alert, because t he federal government had already said it would not hold claims and Medicare carriers were expected today to begin processing payments for physicians services after Dec. 31 under the typical 14-day cycle required by law.
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These WD customers demand AV-grade drives, which are specifically engineered for recording and playback of programs on a 24-by-7 duty cycle.
In the process, though, it fractures the product life-cycle for systems built by those private companies, raises overhead costs on remaining work, and in general make the companies less competitive.
Stora, which is one of the world's largest forestry groups, has long been plagued by the boom-bust cycle in the paper industry.
By optimizing the split-cycle concept, the Scuderi engine is expected to reduce NOx emissions up to 80 percent and improve fuel efficiency by 50 percent, compared to a conventional gasoline engine.
Scuderi says its split-cycle engine increases overall efficiency by up to 50 percent and cuts down on NOx gases at the same time by changing the way air gets channeled through an engine.
The fact that people have used industrial chemistry to short-circuit the nitrogen cycle, by making fertilisers out of nitrogen in the air at a rate which greatly exceeds what natural systems can manage, has real environmental effects.
The plan - which has been accepted by the Palestinians - would see both sides committing themselves to stop the cycle of violence as peace talks were restarted.
Do you think this is, in fact, sparked by the 24-hour news cycle?
However, the Sun is now entering into a grand minimum most likely described by a strong 60-year cycle, with maxima occurring around 2000 and 2060.
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The GOP knows that between the embarrassing remarks about rape made by several candidates during the last election cycle, the record 20 seats held by women in the Democratic-held Senate and the 55% of women who voted for Obama, regaining power requires a makeover.
Customer service-focused CEOs create a virtuous cycle by celebrating great stories from customers.
He reckons that starting from current levels of volatility, eliminating the business cycle would increase average well-being by the equivalent of a fall in the unemployment rate of only 0.2 percentage points.
Instead, lending is dominated by the residential- and commercial-property cycle.
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By extending producer responsibility to the full life-cycle, there is no concept of waste.
These conclusions are from a life-cycle analysis of 14 different source-fuels made by a team at M.
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This reduces the number of different types of aircraft operated by the Defense Department and their associated life-cycle costs.
The Proms will celebrate the 200th year of Wagner's birth with performances of his Ring cycle by Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Isreali-Argentine Daniel Barenboim.
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