After a down cycle you typically have a booming up-cycle due to pent up demand.
All three companies are selling for about half their peak prices during the last up-cycle.
But smoother skies could be ahead, thanks to prospects for an extended civilian aerospace up-cycle and the little-noted possibility that Boeing could see an increase in foreign military sales.
Historically, Eaton's managers had been proud to achieve 4% growth through an up-and-down cycle.
Over the course of six months, the team (which met for an hour or two every week) analyzed the set-up cycle times, benchmarked competitors, mapped the current process, interviewed customers, and explored technology options.
They happen because management ignores deep-seated weaknesses and allows itself to get caught up in a cycle of short-term initiatives meant to meet high expectations with high-risk growth.
From a chart perspective, it is a positive that the NASDAQ moved on up to new cycle-highs yesterday and that the Midcaps are within spitting distance of new-high ground.
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One code-writer's trick, for instance, was to encode dates using the 1, 461 days that make up a full leap-year cycle.
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Paul Zwillenberg, managing director, says the typical start-up's financing cycle has greatly shortened, putting new pressure on firms to grow quickly.
The rules of engagement need only be done for key tasks such as marketing lead scoring, sales lead follow-up, and revenue cycle conversion calculations.
Silicon Valley was once so inward-looking that venture capitalists used to say they would not back a start-up unless they could cycle to its office.
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The instrument has established that winds generally blow east-west on the floor of the crater - something of a surprise to researchers who thought the rover's position close to the northern slopes of Gale's big central mountain might drive winds in a prevailing north-west direction as air moved up and down the peak in a day-night cycle.
The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.
The skin's normal 30-day shedding cycle speeds up to 3 days, and grotesque plaques of dead skin begin to form.
The Forum was told that the developing world was often caught up in a disaster and re-building cycle, in which devastation might be repaired but its underlying causes were overlooked.
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Another thing that ultimately catches up with long-lived governments is the economic cycle.
To break out of the anxiety-filled cycle I have to give up the notion that I have some superhuman level of control.
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.
Sharman Apt Russell has done a wonderful job of gathering bits of exotic butterfly lore to brighten up her account of the insect's life-cycle, its acrobatic sexual practices and its amazing gift for mimicry.
In Washington, which was considered this cycle's other toss-up race, Gov. Gregoire and GOP challenger Dino Rossi, a former state senator, restaged their 2004 contest that Gov. Gregoire won by 133 votes -- the closest percentage margin of any governor's race in U.S. history.
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Some economists have argued that just-in-time methods of inventory control, which allow firms to adjust production more quickly to changes in sales, should help to prevent an unwanted build-up of stocks and so smooth out the economic cycle.
For its own part, the White House got out front early in the spin cycle, saying the president had won up-or-down votes on three of its previously blocked nominees to the federal appeals bench: Priscilla Owen, William Pryor and Janice Rogers Brown.
At a hearing on Wednesday, the court heard Moy Park held an environmental permit authorising intensive poultry rearing of up to 156, 200 broiler birds on a 37-day cycle.
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For a different solution to the same problem, a pair of New Yorkers came up with The Charge Cycle, a proposal to put phone-charging stationary bikes on street corners around NYC.
Success in VC creates a virtual cycle: a VC backs a start-up, the start-up is a huge success and that success then generates publicity- both for the start-up and for the VC.
The ExxonMobile Smart Card, a chip-embedded gas-only card that is coming out later this year, will allow card holders to earn a six-cents-per-gallon credit on up to 100 gallons in each billing cycle.
Venture capital is one of those rare businesses where past results are indicative of future results, as success in VC creates a virtual cycle: a VC backs a start-up, the start-up is a huge success and generates publicity- both for the start-up and for the VC.
Trout, last season's AL rookie of the year and MVP runner-up, became the youngest AL player to hit for the cycle and third youngest in the major leagues since 1930.
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