More recently, investors were happy to move on, pushing the snowball down the hill faster.
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"It's a continuation of the snowball effect with compounding issues of icy conditions at JFK, " Dervin told CNN.
Once the snowball starts rolling, it picks up speed a frightening pace.
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While there were technical reasons that allowed the snowball to gather so much mass, it was major economic problems that started it rolling.
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The snowball has been rolled so far down the deep snowy Alps that it is now 20 feet tall and nearly impossible to roll any further.
Banks failing and subsequent counterparty defaults which in turn result in another bank to fail and the snowball rolls down the mountain getting larger and larger with greater and greater force.
Also, once you get the fear snowball rolling, it does have a tendency to build on itself.
Traditionally, Ben Wyvis belonged to the Clan Munro - which was given the land on condition that it could present the king with a snowball from the mountain at midsummer.
"An increase in land plant abundance may have occurred at the time just before the period known as the Cambrian Explosion, when the next Snowball Earth period failed to occur because temperatures did not get cold enough, " he added.
And as in the previous ad, the updates come to life as a ballerina performs on the dinner table and friends have a snowball fight while the boring relatives go on, you know, talking and listening to each other.
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Then, the penalties can snowball.
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While my partners and I are all for promoting safe and environmentally sound practices in the development of nanotech processes and products, I am worried that this could snowball into the kind of publicity that created a backlash against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and Monsanto.
But a source close to the situation at The Hague, Netherlands, said the decision could have a "snowball effect" that could lead to the dismissal of all the charges.
Sunday is a light air travel day, but by Monday the effects of the furloughs should start to "snowball, " creating an air travel mess the equivalent of having a "Hurricane Sandy in the North and Hurricane Katrina in the South, " said Lee Moak, president of the pilots union.
Cheshire Police issued a warning for parents after a bus driver was hit in the face by a snowball thrown by a child.
When we stopped at Stevens Pass to stretch our legs, I tried to devilishly form a sad-looking snowball from the light snow that covered the ground.
He and his allies explain the ever-growing snowball of allegations by pointing to what they call a massive, organized effort by Democrats and liberal groups to take down the majority leader.
While this view is individualistic in nature, youth are snowflakes in one big global snowball running down the hill.
Reports that companies were pulling out of the show quickly began to snowball.
Customers who could evangelise the Surface Pro and create a snowball effect in sales.
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In no time she had packed and flung a snowball, which caught the animal between the eyes.
It is the reason that the speed of technological progress continues to snowball.
The appeal follows dozens of reports of snowball-related anti-social behaviour in Sunderland.
The News of the World phone-hacking scandal is a snowball that just keeps growing.
It whirled around, and she had another snowball ready to hit it in the rump.
One afternoon I spotted Mary in the yard there, taking part in a snowball fight.
This snowball effect means that adjustments to the level of revenues or even the level of debt are not likely to have major effects once the dynamics are even a bit out of line.
Hurricane Sandy has been a vivid example of how quickly the air travel system can fail when things start to snowball.
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