Mauldin recognizes that markets go through long cycles of expanding and contracting valuations.
Military spending moves in long cycles.
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But B-to-B business decisions involve huge price points, long sales cycles, and can make or break careers.
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One of the big problems with selling to enterprise customers is the tendency to get locked into painfully long sales cycles.
The Secret World and The Old Republic, it could be argued, both launched with a payment model descriptive of their long development cycles.
Its sales reps must contend with incredibly long buying cycles.
Fully equipped for serious research, it unleashes the potential of low-cost innovation in a field that, until now, has been associated with high costs and long development cycles.
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The long publication cycles for journals of sometimes up to five years was a pain point that he and his colleagues had suffered through and understood well.
One problem with the water-treatment industry: extra-long sales cycles.
When California briefly mandated the sale of electric vehicles in the early 1990s, their 50-mile range and long charging cycles meant that they failed to attract more than a dedicated core of green-minded motorists.
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The luxury of long technology evaluation cycles, introspective analysis of systems, and long deployment timeframes are giving way to rapid deployments and systems designed for accuracy and speed.
The relationship between large-company stocks and smaller ones has tended to move in long-term cycles, analysts say.
The caution is that companies selling into public school districts and states are still selling into a highly politicized space with long-buying cycles and all the rest (others have written about this extensively).
Mr. ANDY KOHUT (Director, Pew Center for the People and the Press): We have short-term reactions to Bush, but we also have some of these long-term cycles of history trends going on with respect to views about income inequality or the social safety net and so on.
It is a risky game as drug development cycles have long gestation times, multinational collaborators require stringent quality, and there are regulatory hurdles in India, he says.
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The team suggests it is worth investigating whether the long-term AMO cycles, which are thought to last 65-70 years, may play a part in the temperature rise, fall and rise again seen during the 20th Century.
Most cycles are four weeks long, but a few times every year, you get five-week cycles which is what we have to look forward to with the August options series.
The climate may further cool if additional natural long and short-term cycles also enter into cooling phases.
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Unfortunately, over the very long-term the market cycles back and forth between secular bull markets and secular bear markets on a quite regular basis.
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However, I agree with this thesis and believe small-cap domestic equities are especially attractive given that small-cap cycles can last as long as two decades.
There are times when it's very liquid, but the cycles are very, very long.
Changes also had to be made to the rules for takeovers, he went on - so that investors and businesses could build for the long-term, adding that a new mechanism was needed to ensure major infrastructure decisions were made for the long term and not subject to political cycles.
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Bust cycles are always about twice as long as we hope they will be, and four times as long as we can stand.
And since house-price cycles tend to last for a long time, says Mike Poulos of Oliver Wyman, a consultancy, it can be expensive to sustain a short position.
The result: Conservative groups were required to answer wide-ranging and often unnecessary questions, 80 percent of applications were open for a year or more, and some were open for as long as three years and across two election cycles.
Researchers began by pinpointing the ovulation cycles of 41 undergraduate women involved in long-term heterosexual relationships.
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Our ratings for domestic stock funds look at long-term performance over four bull and bear market cycles stretching back 12 years.
After living through several boom and bust cycles, he said he "believes in the long term" and he began construction on Mercedes House before he had obtained financing.
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