But there is something of a trickle-down effect, according to James Boyd, a spokesman for Singapore Airlines.
The trickle-down effect of the automobile industry's woes is turning into a flood.
But if those workers have any spare change, could investing in Tiffany give them a share of the trickle-down effect?
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This has a trickle-down effect, preventing younger generations from moving up in the workplace or from moving into the workplace to acquire the wealth they would need to drive new demand for homes.
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"The techniques have a trickle-down effect on the whole society and get the mechanic or the farmer back to work faster, too, " says Dr. Claude Moorman III, director of sports medicine at Duke University.
Though psychological trauma, which can eventually lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, became a widely recognized problem after the Vietnam War, the promotion of mental-health counseling for Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans has accelerated a trickle-down effect to civilians and first responders.
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Likewise, in the conventional thinking about markets, economic progress depends not on the labors of infinite economic actors but on the select few, the brainiacs, who rise to the top and generate innovations from which ordinary mortals benefit through a kind of trickle-down effect.
Is there a trickle-down effect?
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Whatever the means, there will be an effect of trickle-down taxes.
But they are also hoping that by working with the largest credit issuers, such as Citigroup, Chase Card Services, MBNA America, Bank of America and Capital One Financial (nyse: COF - news - people ), that a change in industry practices will have a trickle down effect to smaller lenders.
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