In games all about the futility of humanity and
slow cycles of decay, Dark Souls series director Hidetaka Miyazaki went to incredible lengths just to shine a little light on the same players he punished so severely.
This is since commodities in the short - run can not be drilled, mined and grown causing relatively
slow cycles of inventory building, which in - turn drives patterns of commodity prices to trend up and down.
Not exact matches
A
cycling enthusiast, he did know that the industry had exploded in the 1980s — mostly thanks to the emergence
of mountain biking — only to
slow down considerably in the early 1990s.
«Business
cycles do not succumb to age alone but rather to a confluence
of factors like falling corporate profit margins,
slowing productivity growth, and a sharp rise in real policy rates into positive territory.»
«Lloyds will be broadly doubling up its exposure to credit cards at a particularly benign point in the bad debt
cycle and ahead
of a potential
slow - down... once the terms
of the UK's exit from the EU are reached,» Gary Greenwood
of Shore Capital said.
But Bloomberg Industries» media analyst Paul Sweeney recently told Advertising Age that the disappointing number
of U.S. sign - ups casts doubt on that theory and, «if sub growth
slows or worse, this virtuous
cycle can become more
of a vicious
cycle.»
As CNBC anchor Becky Quick pointed out this morning during their segment in which I joined, we may be entering that phase
of the
cycle where good news on Main St. is bad news on Wall St.. That is, accelerating wage growth may lead the Federal Reserve to tighten faster,
slowing overall growth more than currently expected.
But companies and investors need to be wary
of signs
of stress and eventual
slowing, as the business
cycle winds down.
«By the time 10 - year and 2 - year Treasuries reach parity, as is almost the case now, the economy is typically
slowing and the Fed is at or near the end
of its tightening
cycle.»
The
slowing in activity has been largely concentrated in the business and external sectors, consistent with the moderation
of the global ITC
cycle and the easing in demand seen in other countries.
Germany is highly leveraged to the Chinese industrial
cycle so this may be a sign that Chinese growth has
slowed more than the authorities admit — as indicated by plummeting yields on Chinese bonds, and rates on three - month Shibor and certificates
of deposit.
Indeed, I believe the Fed will raise rates in a
slow manner that doesn't excessively unsettle the economy or markets, with the gradual nature
of the tightening
cycle allowing markets to absorb the increases with relative ease.
The current economic
cycle is already one
of the longer ones on record, and even though the Federal Reserve has been
slow in raising rates, it might take fewer rate hikes than in previous
cycles.
This has been one
of the
slowest tightening
cycles on record.
A short sales
cycle might make some buyers skittish, especially if they're used to the sluggishly
slow pace
of non-software purchases.
«The
cycle can be very
slow,» says Sweet, who predicts we'll see consistent bumps
of about 25 basis points each quarter in 2016, and that, ultimately, the Federal Reserve's benchmark rate will hit about 2 percent by the end
of 2017.
This period might be better regarded as representing a pause in the late 1970s recovery, rather than the starting point
of another
cycle; [1] the 1980s expansion was also characterised by a mid-
cycle slowing.
Unlike other browser vendors, Microsoft remains committed to a relatively
slow update
cycle that sees the company launch major new versions
of Edge in sync with the bi-annual Windows 10 updates.
On the other hand, any percipient with a
slow response - time, relative to the
cycle - time
of the structure, will register a steady effect due to the system (now perceived as a unit).
Between the ages
of 37 to 40, the average
slows to 4 to 5
cycles.
Up until 1928,
cycle speed
of mechanical breast pumps had been very
slow because they were determined by how quickly the user could squeeze the bulb (or pull the piston) and how fast — within the physical constraints
of the pump — the vacuum could be established.
He calls these
slow occulting rhythmic
cycles, «relational field
cycles,» and observes that the relational field
cycles govern the innate knowing
of birth, bonding and attachment.
A few brands
of breast pumps have a built in feature that begins with fast
cycling and adjusts
slower.
Vary the rhythm
of the
cycles, alternately speeding up and
slowing down.
They LOVED the combo
of water noises and soft music, which typically got
slower and quieter towards the end
of the
cycle, the lights dimmed a little before turning off, etc..
The current election
cycle's potential Republican candidates for president may be a little
slow out
of the gate, but past aspirants to the nation's highest post haven't been so shy.
It could also be different if it coincides with importunate military pressures or pressures on the currency that preclude
slower - paced adjustment (as in 1931 or 1950), or if it takes place in the context
of an external bailout that cuts across the normal electoral
cycle (as with the US bailout
of the Attlee government in 1949, the IMF bailout
of 1976 or the more recent Eurozone bailouts), or in a context
of no or very low economic growth over a prolonged period.
But when pressed on Donald Trump's call for «a total and complete shutdown
of Muslims entering the United States,» many
of this
cycle's most vulnerable senators were
slow to respond.
what is the point in this
cycle of decline.the worst part is milliband has a first degree in politics.he knows tax and spend does not work.looking at labour over a 30 year period, is like watching the
slowest car crash in history.
As the major areas
of contention become clear, some remain from recent years, while others are new, and questions loom over the city budget
cycle due to uncertainty in Washington, D.C., state funding shifts being proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and a
slowing city economy.
«If we find a way to stretch the
cycle, increase amplitude, make it taller or maybe
slow the frequency a little bit, maybe we could increase the capacity
of working memory,» he says.
Riders use only a rear - wheel brake that is used mostly to avoid riders who have crashed on the course and to stop after crossing the finish line — other types
of cycles have a two - brake system that
slows both wheels.
Testing the idea is no easy feat, as a 100 - million - year
cycle would be too
slow for current technology to detect, says Michael Bergman
of Bard College at Simon's Rock in Massachusetts.
Slower going, experts say, is breaking the vicious
cycle of antiquated transmission networks, theft, corruption and poor maintenance crippling Haiti's power sector.
Unlike most glaciers in Antarctica, Whillans is currently
slowing down a little each year — part
of a complex
cycle of mechanical feedback that causes some glaciers to periodically stop and start again.
They report in the paper that mixing nanodiamonds into the electrolyte solution
of a lithium ion battery
slows dendrite formation to nil through 100 charge - discharge
cycles.
An extended minimum occurs whenever the plasma moves quickly at the beginning
of a
cycle — preventing a large buildup
of magnetic fields — but then
slows down toward the end, delaying the onset
of the next
cycle, the team reports online today in Nature.
That could
slow or stop the
cycle of transmission that could threaten them or other patients in the future.
In these ways, they
slow the carbon
cycle — the storage and release
of carbon — for the system.
When growing separately from followers, leaders increase their numbers at a
slower rate, have erratic cell
cycles and have more «blebs,» which are bulges
of the cell membrane.
They report this month in the Proceedings
of the Royal Society B that changes in the heartbeat due to temperature (the heart
slows as it cools and then speeds back up as the fish resurfaces) and adrenaline, released from the stress
of diving, alter the electrical activity
of the heart cells to sustain the constant calcium
cycling needed to keep the heart going.
HCV can not be grown reliably in the laboratory, a failing that has
slowed critical studies
of everything from drugs to vaccines to basic knowledge
of the virus's life
cycle.
The fact that the amplitude
of the events vary from time to time implies
slower variations, just like modulations
of the sunspot number has led to the proposition
of the Gleissberg
cycles (80 - 90 years).
The climate sensitivity classically defined is the response
of global mean temperature to a forcing once all the «fast feedbacks» have occurred (atmospheric temperatures, clouds, water vapour, winds, snow, sea ice etc.), but before any
of the «
slow» feedbacks have kicked in (ice sheets, vegetation, carbon
cycle etc.).
In the past, people had known that individual neurons go through phases
of being more or less active, but with this probe they saw for the first time that all the neurons in a given column
cycled together between firing very rapidly then firing at a much
slower rate, similar to coordinated
cycles in sleep.
Sadly, studies show that the long life
cycles and
slow sexual maturation
of deep - sea fish makes them particularly vulnerable to large - scale fishing activities.
More importantly, the brand - new therapy allows the dose
of antibiotics to be reduced by 90 percent to attain the same level
of effectiveness, and the development
of NDM - 1 resistance to be significantly
slowed down, which will largely extend the life
cycle of currently used antibiotics.
The process transforms the biological matter into a more stable form
of carbon,
slowing the release
cycle and thereby keeping more carbon out
of the atmosphere.
That's largely because
of the effects
of a
slow - moving ocean
cycle, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which influences the global climate.
But with the
slow «death march»
of old vents comes the birth
of new ones, and the inexorable
cycle of life begins again.