Catastrophe would ensue as a result of the ripple-effect that would occur as widespread disruptions occur in the supply of electrical power to other infrastructures that depend on it to operate.
As Katrina demonstrated, if the electricity goes off for any protracted period of time, there is a cascading ripple-effect which takes down the means by which we communicate, get food and water, access financial resources, receive medical services, dispose of sewage and move from one location to another.
That last point illustrates the ripple effect--in this case the public health impact--of such government actions.
If Republicans win the House but lose the Senate and the presidency, the change in the balance of power may have a further -- and important -- ripple effect.
The e-reader sales shortfall is significant because of its ripple effect on projected sales of related products, including e-books and accessories.
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Expanding on this traditional legal services paradigm, providing legal services to meet the organizational needs of a non-profit has a ripple effect.
Fallout from the European debt crisis could have ripple effect beyond just the southern-tier countries.
But today, as I ponder the principles I presented in Building a 100-Year Company, I am wondering about the ripple effect to the people and the community when a company is built primarily with the goal of being eventually sold.
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The ripple effect may even reach networking companies, including Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ), Juniper Networks (nasdaq: JNPR - news - people ) and Nortel Networks (nyse: NT - news - people ).
What's really more likely to happen is that if these bond insurers get down-graded by the rating agencies from their triple-A rating, that would cause all the holders of the bonds to also have down-grades, which would mean yet more billions of write-offs, yet more losses, yet more problems for the stock market and yet more ripple effect on the rest of the economy.
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