It was completely overbuilt without any real notion of what the demand cycle was, and it far outstripped what many of the traditional carriers in this segment themselves had forecasted.
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Lower prices would bring in more traffic, generating more demand for infrastructure further repeating the cycle.
It is more of an industrial metal that responds to the industrial cycle, particularly vehicle demand.
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In Italy, Merloni, despite its unusually good labour relations, cannot mirror in its production cycle the highly seasonal demand for fridges and freezers.
After a down cycle you typically have a booming up-cycle due to pent up demand.
Gartner estimates this corporate upgrade cycle will help boost computer demand.
What Jackson and AutoNation did was understand better than their competitors the root drivers of car demand: cheap financing and a short replacement cycle.
If so, around one-third of the rise in America's joblessness is impervious to the business cycle and cannot be solved by boosting demand (see article).
The demand for new workers in India also creates a virtuous cycle for Indian CEOs.
The tidal cycle powering the barrage might not coincide with demand for electricity.
But Universities UK said that it was too early in the application cycle for an "accurate picture of final demand".
The prevailing model of demand in the defense market thus resembles the commercial business cycle, except that defense typically surges when commercial is weakening, and vice versa.
In this cycle, however, there is a contrast between weak demand in the developed world and booming demand in emerging markets.
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Americans must demand that government and business take more responsibility "to break the cycle of poverty and violence gripping this country, " he said.
Demand for older models has increased to 50% in the iPhone 5 cycle to date, compared with 33% in the 4S cycle.
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Both Brazil and China are likely coming to the home stretch of their tightening cycle, meaning an end to raising interest rates to cool demand for credit.
Weaker domestic demand and an unclear international environment should lead the Central Bank to pause its tightening cycle.
The internet has also compressed the news cycle, with headlines delivered instantly by smartphone or Twitter, creating a demand for immediate analysis and opinion.
Fundamentals are improving and we expect the current PC refresh cycle to continue to lift both chip makers results, as pent up demand starts to work through the system.
While most big firms today are still mired in the Traditional Economy of the Great Stagnation, kept afloat by cheap money from central banks, still waiting for an improvement in the business cycle, firms in the Creative Economy are racing ahead by creating their own demand with continuous innovation.
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Foreign Service hiring has spiked largely because of a demographic cycle that has a lot of workers retiring at the same time, and increased demand in hot spots like Pakistan.
This assumption was based on the stable underpinnings of auto demand--cheap financing by car companies (and by home equity loans) and a customary replacement cycle of three years.
Demand for commercial jetliners tends to closely follow global economic patterns, exaggerating the ups and downs of the business cycle.
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