We had an early cyclical move in the stocks in early 1991, and then they underperformed for a couple of years.
There are at least four possible ways to explain such a broad downturn: *It is a cyclical move for a cyclical industry.
But "if it's a cyclical move or a stumble, that's the kind of thing that market-power companies bounce back from," Ms. Sampson said.
For investors, Haliburton is not pricey at 15 times this year's expected earnings, but that's assuming the cyclical move in energy continues.
The browser wars have always been cyclical, moving from periods of monoculture dominated by one or two browsers to periods of comparative competition characterized by multiple, strong, second-tier browsers and a growing list of niche browsers.
"The business is cyclical and moves with the violent economic swings," said Raymond E. Neidl, an analyst at Blaylock & Partners, an investment bank, and a co-author of "Airline Odyssey: The Airline Industry's Turbulent Flight into the Future".
In Little Boy: The Art of Japan's Exploding Subculture, Takashi Murakami commented that Dragon Ball's "never-ending cyclical narrative moves forward plausibly, seamlessly, and with great finesse".
From an illustration of an eye to a sculpture of a crab, the cyclical narrative moves through flat planes to 3D seamlessly.
Nevertheless, the overall process is cyclical and moves in a clockwise direction.
It is not circular or cyclical; it is moving toward a goal; moving, in Jewish and Christian phraseology, from this age to the age to come.
