Word: cyclicality
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...Establishing job creation as a discrete goal is a misleading enterprise. Beyond cyclic swings in demand, what we're really talking about creating is not jobs but ideas and technologies and more efficient ways of producing and selling goods and services. If that sounds like a harder goal to set, let alone achieve, that's because...
...past, the band instead choose to produce songs based primarily off of the same tried-and-true formula. There are slow and more upbeat songs on the album, but each type is constructed in largely the same fashion: a solid guitar intro accompanied by drums until a very cyclic melody is established, finished off with some unmemorable lyrics and an anthemic chorus...
...fact, there are two cyclic waves in American history: one for politics and the general national spirit, the other for economic growth and contraction. Think of the two wave systems as running along the same timeline but perpendicular to each other - politics on the horizontal, weaving left to right; economics on the vertical, weaving up and down. Each affects the other, but unpredictably. A political or economic era can be as brief as 10 years or as long as a quarter-century, but the politics and economics don't move obviously in sync. Prosperity, for instance, can reinforce the "natural...
...squash team, but most, I wager, come for the fulfillment of definition “b”: a network and a job. In all of Harvard’s history, these two aspects of the “Harvard experience” have blossomed in a symbiotic, cyclic relationship; students mix with their exemplary peers, who benefit in their professional life from their Harvard connections, which in turn elevates Harvard’s reputation yet again.Eventually, however, that reputation can become divorced from reality. We Harvardians love to think that our inordinate success with...
...maps and 2001’s beautiful At Dawn sounded the ignition, the new album pulls out all the stops along the 72-minute path. The beer-stained pool halls and one-night plans of James’ hitchhiker poetry all point to a Neil Young education, while his cyclic, hypnotizing voice (falling between that of early Young and a drunken Wayne Coyne) is as seductive as always. As James himself describes it: “Soft and warm all the time, make you want it over and over / Strong on the horizon, but ends up bein’ really...