For better or for worse, never-ending litigation and sticky sales injunctions seem to becoming an unfortunate mainstay of the modern product cycle.

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Rising and falling and attempting to rise again is the cardiac cycle of modern American life.

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The new film has been updated with all of the modern bells and whistles including light cycle races in 3-D and Jeff Bridges acting opposite a digital version of his younger self.

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It is pointless for a modern president to plead that some things, such as the business cycle, are beyond his control.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

It was sheer good fortune, he always thought, that brought both Mr Rock and Mr Perkins into his life, and the luck of the business cycle that put him in the thick of the wildest industrial growth in modern American history.

ECONOMIST: Eugene Kleiner

Would-be business titans need to learn that economic history is punctuated with crises and disasters, that booms inevitably give way to busts, and that the business cycle, having survived many predictions of extinction, continues to prey on the modern economy.

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

Despite this economic outlook, the stock markets in the last three months have agreed with the unstated assumptions in the whispers of "green shoots" - that growth is a prerogative of the modern era, that rebounds are always V-shaped and that central banks and politicians have abolished the business cycle that has plagued economic life since ancient times.

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