That makes it harder for entrepreneurs seeking funding to land meetings, and the vicious cycle continues.

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This vicious cycle of patronage and corruption lies at the root of Turkey's financial ills.

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It is possible to tone down this vicious cycle and make it less dysfunctional.

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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.

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The elimination of this vicious cycle brings the European crisis closer to a viable solution.

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The frightening thing is that I don't think there's any way out of this literally vicious cycle.

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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.

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Europeans have a "deep ambivalence" about capitalism, he says, lamenting a "vicious cycle" of protectionism and government meddling.

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Certainly, most Koreans would like an end to the vicious cycle of the incumbent turning on his predecessor.

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Unless the Bush administration moves quickly to change the pattern, it will find itself slipping into a vicious cycle.

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"It is imperative to break the vicious cycle between banks and sovereigns, " the eurozone leaders said in a statement.

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Mr Duncan Smith said many estate residents were trapped in a "vicious cycle" of unemployment, family breakdown and addiction.

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Combining proven public health and public safety strategies will help break the vicious cycle of drug abuse, crime, and incarceration.

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" Without a strong advertising campaign, he predicts, "we would die in a vicious cycle of low profile and low sales.

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As capital flows back into the country, interest rates should also fall, helping to turn today's vicious cycle into a victorious one.

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We must break the vicious cycle of declining professional conditions for teachers in order to improve the quality of learning for all.

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Quotas will break this vicious cycle by putting lots of women at the top, who can then offer their sisters a leg up.

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So why do so many accomplished women get snared in the vicious cycle of not getting paid properly for the work they do?

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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.

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This unwillingness and failure to segment the Chinese market has led to an ever more vicious cycle of rising user acquisition costs for startups.

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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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In a moment, the view from Lake Elsinore, California, hard hit by this vicious cycle but also right now a place of great opportunity.

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This is a terrible, greedy, vicious cycle, with no regard to the health of the food produced, or the land being used to produce it.

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It is only government that can break the vicious cycle where lost jobs lead to people spending less money, which leads to even more layoffs.

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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.

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"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.

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Before long, the vicious cycle affected the entire economy, Stiglitz writes.

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