The ripple effect was felt far beyond the island nation, particularly in Britain and the Netherlands.
That last point illustrates the ripple effect--in this case the public health impact--of such government actions.
Anytime you drop an object into water, you witness the ripple effect, however small the object.
Jamil asks, "What will be the ripple effect" of all these anti-worker, anti-education GOP budgets?
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What's the ripple effect from record mortgage loan defaults and a lowered interest rate?
The real estate crisis hit our country hard, and the ripple effect continues.
According to the UNFPA, which is leading a global humanitarian movement called Seven Billion Actions, the ripple effect is enormous.
Though Flextronics' main California office is 2, 900 miles from New York, the ripple effect has altered many decisions made by the manufacturer.
And the ripple effect of her recommendation has continued for multiple weeks.
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Though Flextronics' main U.S. office is in California, 4, 700 kilometers from New York, the ripple effect has altered many decisions it makes.
If this happens on a large scale, as it did in the 1930s, the ripple effect for the economy as a whole can be devastating.
The exact scope and impact of the ripple effect remains unclear.
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And in addition to income revenues, there are the corporate, property and sales taxes to consider, as well as the ripple effect of bringing in a new industry.
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The ripple effect on unemployment would be dramatic as well.
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The ripple effect on theaters was felt as high up as namesti Miru, where the management of Divadlo Na Vinohradech postponed the opening of Svet plny andelu (A World Full of Angels).
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 ).
He treated the disastrous ripple effect in Pakistan and Central Asia of abandoning Afghanistan as a function of al Qaeda securing Pakistani nuclear weapons.
That's the extraordinary ripple effect that one life, lived humbly, with love for one's country, and in service to one's fellow citizens, can have.
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The vast majority are non-working or barely working actors, often employed as bartenders, baristas and personal trainers to the Hollywood community, vulnerable to the economic ripple effect of a strike.
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.
The downgrades come amid rising concern about the political and economic turmoil in Greece, and the potential ripple effect of that crisis on nations like Spain and Italy that are struggling with low growth and big debts.
As a result, the "ripple effect" of U.S. non-performance on ultimatums, deadlines and continued blatant violations of international law by the members of this "radical entente" (2) will inevitably produce more severe and more dangerous consequences for Western interests in the future.
But other senators argued saving the airline industry has a ripple effect that helps the whole economy.
Its slim bezel with rose gold accents creates sophisticated lines that flow elegantly into the base, forming a stunning ripple effect along the bottom of the TV.
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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.
Our next issue is the fiscal multiplier: how big a ripple effect will the spending cut have on the rest of the economy?
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Understand that with political pressures and global concerns, decisions can be made halfway across the world that have a ripple effect in markets around the globe.
Fallout from the European debt crisis could have ripple effect beyond just the southern-tier countries.
As we started tracking this data we discovered something surprising: the majority of ripple effect website failures are caused by online advertising services, whose ads either slow down page load times or, worse, can actually prevent the entire page from loading.
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