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21-08-2005, 06:33 PM

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

Interestingly, one of the things that keeps cyclemania alive is the
deficiency of the English language in not having a term for the sort
of irregular variation caused by non-cyclic feedback effects. The
nearest term is, indeed, "cycle" but that immediately gets people
thinking in terms of regular, predictable variation. Think of this
the next time anyone talks about the economy ....

'Fluctuations' instead of 'cycles'?

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