Foreclosures place downward pressure on house prices, contributing to a vicious cycle of economic pain.
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As a disease or disorder, obesity is a vicious cycle with multiple contributing factors.
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With the fear of calamity diminished, a vicious cycle would become virtuous as investors' confidence recovered.
Of course, since poverty and education are so tightly interwoven it becomes a vicious cycle very quickly.
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This set in motion a vicious cycle where value to customer diminished as the most savvy employees left.
Unless the Bush administration moves quickly to change the pattern, it will find itself slipping into a vicious cycle.
" Without a strong advertising campaign, he predicts, "we would die in a vicious cycle of low profile and low sales.
Insomnia poses a vicious cycle for some patients: They can't sleep ?????? because they worry too much about the fact that they can't sleep.
Cash becomes the primary motivator and eventually creates a vicious cycle of getting even more invested into increasingly boring procedures to support his lifestyle.
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Here, there's a vicious cycle at work: The more America purchases, the worse its own trade imbalance and--most think--the greater the pressure on the dollar.
"We are in a vicious cycle, " said Evans Revere, a former senior State Department official who now works on Asia issues at the Brookings Institution.
In the worst case this can lead to a vicious cycle of lower budgets, limited squads, poor results and lower attendances bringing in less revenue through the turnstiles.
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Of course, these social phenomena are both symptoms of and contributors to economic circumstances, a vicious cycle that requires a structural solution at the policy level.
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Slowing the economy, such a trend could increase the share of the population relying on government transfers, leading to a vicious cycle (Alesina and Wacziarg 1998).
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Employers' problems feed, in a vicious cycle, the urban problems--like regional and racial divisions, lousy city schools and a poorly prepared work force--that seem to afflict St.
And the fear is here, really, we're entering a vicious cycle that, as more homes are on sale, more homeowners who need to sell will cut their prices.
There could be a vicious cycle, as defaults and foreclosures dump houses on already saturated markets, forcing prices down further and leaving more overstretched homeowners with negative equity.
That, too, would lead to higher prices for almost every supply chain component and consumer good requiring road transportation, and set in motion a vicious cycle of economic headwinds.
"It isn't working because their failure to get businesses growing, to see more jobs created, has locked them and the country into a vicious cycle on the deficit, " he said.
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The process creates a vicious cycle in which each time a person goes on a diet like McCotry's, she'll have to further lower her caloric intake in order to drop weight.
In some ways, a vicious cycle is at work.
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Leading an international drive to unburden hopelessly indebted Third World countries from onerous interest payments that lock them into a vicious cycle of poverty, Clinton pledged the loan relief two years ago.
It can be a vicious cycle - stress can lead to insomnia or depression, or other physical symptoms, which in turn decrease performance at work, and increase the level of stress experienced.
On the other hand, inflation that is very low could indicate a coming bout of deflation, where a generalized dropped in wages and asset prices create a vicious cycle that can destroy an economy.
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The impressive Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, has warned of a vicious cycle, that the strikes are leading Greece's creditors to doubt the country can meet its promises and so more austerity measures might be needed.
If interested in raising growth capital in the private markets, they too would face difficult creditors on the way to subpar growth, which would ultimately make government debt in drachma even less attractive in a vicious cycle.
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Or to put it another way, we have a sovereign debt crisis, which caused a banking crisis, which is in turn leading to a worsening of the sovereign debt crisis, in a vicious cycle that threatens to destroy the currency union.
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