Cheap loans encourage an overdependence on bank lending and hinder the development of capital markets.

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Bossidy knows the weakness of his car parts business is an overdependence on selling original equipment to carmakers.

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As a late bloomer, Mr Nilekani argues, India can avoid mistakes made by early industrialisers, such as an overdependence on fossil fuels and unsustainable pension policies.

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Nigeria's former military rulers failed to diversify the economy away from its overdependence on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 95% of foreign exchange earnings and about 80% of budgetary revenues.

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But they warn against overdependence on contacts.

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For Chrysler's part, it would get a few things it desperately needs, including vastly increased scale that would, in theory, help lower costs, and access to GM's sprawling overseas operations, which would salve Chrysler's overdependence on North America.

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That liberation happens when companies turn to the cloud to reduce overdependence on big up-front capital investments and overall IT spending, and are thereby able to invest more in initiatives such as Customer Experience (CX) rather than another round of infrastructure sprawl whose value is increasingly hard to pin down.

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