And positive external shocks (such as a rise in the price of an exported commodity) tend to hasten growth that quickly fizzles out.
Most of the world lets Silicon Valley lead and then replicates its ideas, saturates the market, and fizzles until the next wave of innovation appears.
Most assuredly, a general strike that fizzles will not serve the cause of reducing inequality, or even help Occupy Wall Street find its sea legs.
Current investors in SAC and others who have held back while the insider-trading investigation unfolds say that if it fizzles, investors likely would flock back to the firm.
Southern Company ( SO - news - people ) as the largest utility company in the U.S. (See If the Recovery Fizzles, Seek Safety in Utilities).
The threat fizzles, the deadline is postponed for a week, or two, or three, and talks between Mr Netanyahu and Mrs Albright limp on in Washington at his convenience and her inconvenience.
The new company will have a generating capacity of about 57, 000 megawatts, outstripping Southern Company as the largest utility company in the U.S. (See If the Recovery Fizzles, Seek Safety in Utilities).
Whether it fizzles out or gets busted up through divide and conquer strategies remains to be seen, but the movement, which got its start in the editorial offices of Adbusters, a non-influential magazine based in Vancouver, continues to spread around the world.
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Even if the Steambox initiative fizzles, there's always the massive ongoing success of Steam's digital storefront to fall back on. 2013 may be the year that Valve attacks, but it's not just the company's internal hardware projects that are up for the challenge.
Likewise, if web surfers don't pass on information, weary perhaps from too many messages that threaten all sorts of awfulness if they are not passed to at least ten people in less than ten minutes, or just web-weary in general, then the effect of viral marketing soon fizzles out.
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