As a group of nine states this election cycle, they picked up eight more votes.

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But for those of us who came up in an era when a glossy hunk of paper and ink was a thing to behold, the tangible result of a hardworking group of professionals operating in a weekly cycle that felt as natural and inevitable as the tides, this is a day for memory and regret.

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If we did start to use the thorium nuclear cycle in reactors one group of beneficiaries would be those who use tantalum, niobium, rare earths and so on.

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The group uses several factors to determine peaks and troughs of the business cycle, but its methodology has the disadvantage of revealing a recession months after it has passed.

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"His initial idea (was) to get a group of people together who would not commit until late in the cycle, to make sure if somebody new got into the race that was exciting and we thought was the ideal person, we would have a group ready to go, " Wynn said.

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Another group of optimists, however, places much more emphasis on the business cycle and good fortune.

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The Tea Party Express tour, titled "Liberty at the Ballot Box, " is the group's fourth since 2009 and their last of the 2010 election cycle.

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There's not enough creative sector-weighting and no core group of Coca-Cola-like stocks that are big enough positions to carry the fund over the longer cycle.

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According to ProPublica, Americans for Prosperity and another conservative group have accounted for more than eighty per cent of spending by social-welfare nonprofits in the 2012 election cycle.

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