Some analysts have cautioned that the sales cycle may be peaking and maybe even headed for an inevitable downturn.

有些分析师警告说，目前正值销售周期的巅峰，甚至可能面临不可避免的衰退。

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DRAM prices and margins skyrocketed, and companies raced to build new fabs, some of which were ready for action just in time for the inevitable market downturn in 1997-98.

内存的价格和利润都在以火箭速度上升，各大公司争先恐后地建设新的内存芯片生产厂。

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And when they do, you want to be well positioned to benefit and well prepared to weather the next inevitable downturn.

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The truth is, the things that are being done today (like bailouts) are only postponing and making incredibly worse the inevitable downturn.

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Art Laffer and other Reagan-era economists are saying that the comprehensive, across the board tax rate increases on the nation's employers and investors now scheduled for next year will make a double dip downturn inevitable.

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