"My personal view is that this is not a normal cycle, " he said.
It certainly seems as though people see the current recession as more than just a down period in the normal business cycle.
Household debt rose from 100% to 136% of household income in the last 6 years, he says, six times the percentage point increase in a normal debt cycle.
Historically financial crises brink about recessions that are deeper and longer lasting than the normal business-cycle recessions.
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This compares with a normal inventory-led cycle where recessions are less frequent, occurring every five years or so.
The storm is part of the sun's normal 11-year cycle, which is supposed to reach a peak next year.
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The preempted traffic light returns to normal operation within a cycle or two.
The skin's normal 30-day shedding cycle speeds up to 3 days, and grotesque plaques of dead skin begin to form.
By using cuttings and closely regulating how much light the plants get, indoor gardeners crush a normal five-month growing cycle into ten weeks.
"This crisis is neither the result of a normal turn of the business cycle nor an accident of history, " the president states in an opening message of the 134-page document.
Although some of this pullback can be explained by the recent moderation in the growth of output, the magnitude of the slowdown has been somewhat greater than would be expected given the normal evolution of the business cycle.
This dual life-cycle means that, besides disrupting normal cellular activities in the ways that other viruses do, a retrovirus may also disrupt the normal function of its host's chromosomes.
Given a start with some other fissile material (U-233, U-235 or Pu-239) as a driver, a breeding cycle similar to but more efficient than that with U-238 and plutonium (in normal, slow neutron reactors) can be set up. (The driver fuels provide all the neutrons initially, but are progressively supplemented by U-233 as it forms from the thorium.) However, there are also features of the neutron economy which counter this advantage.
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The young NRC changed dramatically in response to the Three Mile Island incident and the need to make the NRC above the normal politics of the day as the long-term safety of the environment transcends the four-year political cycle.
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