The Amazon forest provides a relevant example: due to the interaction of deforestation, fire and climate change, it is predicted that the Amazon could undergo a widespread dieback in the future, with parts of the forest moving into a self-perpetuating cycle of more frequent fires and intense droughts, leading to a shift to savanna-like vegetation.
We need to create a self-sustaining cycle where people are spending, and companies are hiring, and our economy is growing.
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Without that pent-up demand, resources freed from supply-side measures and austerity get saved, not spent, and no self-reinforcing cycle is triggered.
By lowering the cost of investment, you can unleash a self-reinforcing cycle.
As Apple attracts more iPhone users through its superior App Store, it will encourage developers to create more applications, creating a self-sustaining cycle.
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This is a frequent criticism of advocacy groups - that the money they raise simply perpetuates a self-promoting cycle of expensive films, travel etc... rather than putting money into local communities.
There seems to be a self-reinforcing cycle here.
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The town of maybe a few hundred people is locked in a self-sustaining cycle of grief after a school bus slides off the road one morning, careens down a slope, and sinks in an icy lake.
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In an ironic self-perpetuating cycle, parents need to pay for child care so they can afford to work long hours, but the child care itself places a strain on their budget that must be corrected with increased income.
Why is the United States still locked in this self-perpetuating boom-bust cycle in clean energy?
As Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has made clear, a housing recovery is a prerequisite to any sort of self-sustaining economic cycle.
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The combination of oil dependence and production constraints set up a self-sabotaging boom and bust cycle.
That creates the possibility of a cycle of self-reinforcing destruction.
Analytically, this seems unlikely as well as housing is naturally self-amplifying at this point in the cycle.
Williams notes that when he picked up coverage of the company last year, he noted that the company was a likely beneficiary of both the retail self-service trend and an ATM upgrade cycle.
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Self-publishing, though, is still in the early stages of the Hype Cycle.
To break the cycle of failure, we must initiate behavior change out of a place of self-acceptance and a desire to enjoy a higher quality of life.
We believe that nothing can replace the importance of empowering people with social and economic stability, which will help them break the cycle of poverty and provide them with the skills necessary to sustain long-term self-sufficiency.
The new film has been updated with all of the modern bells and whistles including light cycle races in 3-D and Jeff Bridges acting opposite a digital version of his younger self.
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