11.   Its chemicals, thermostats and other cyclical businesses have fallen prey to the softening economy.

12.   New home construction is a cyclical business, and there have been gains of this magnitude before.

13.   Of course, fashion is a cyclical business, and every designer has ups and downs.

14.   One of the problems for brokerage firms, operating in a highly cyclical business, is whether to take on the high fixed costs of computer installations.

15.   Pigott did caution shareholders that Paccar is in a cyclical business and its sales and earnings have traditionally been uneven.

16.   Semiconductors have always been a deeply cyclical business, and current conditions are as dreadful as a bottom has ever gotten.

17.   Some analysts caution that the Korean semiconductor stocks are not as undervalued as they appear because of their highly cyclical business nature.

18.   Staffing services has been a cyclical business, dependent on a growing economy.

19.   Still, analysts supported a move away from cyclical businesses.

20.   Such mergers have occurred even as chemical profits have soared during the past two years in what has been a traditionally cyclical business.