While those founding truths about liberty and equality may have been self-evident, they are not self-perpetuating.
Why is the United States still locked in this self-perpetuating boom-bust cycle in clean energy?
It causes hoarding and speculation which leads to price distortions, i.e. it is self- perpetuating.
Right now he has four dozen ideas that he thinks are more business-savvy and self-perpetuating.
To attack such self-perpetuating problems, Perlow engaged a cluster of workaholics at Boston Consulting Group who wanted redemption.
So will these entrepreneurs be known for what they did or for what the self-perpetuating managers are now doing?
First there are self-perpetuating myths, and they exist in pretty much any industry.
What makes some seemingly best practices even more difficult to uncover as harmful is that they can become self-perpetuating.
Ane he warned of a "self-perpetuating economic nightmare" unless the coalition changes course.
Like jewels sewn into a coat lining, a self-perpetuating spool of ones and zeros refuses to admit that it is wealth.
And since people often find out about jobs by word of mouth, high levels of unemployment on the estate are self-perpetuating.
Obamacare passed with the narrowest of margins and would set up a self-perpetuating system that likely will never again face serious voter scrutiny.
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The venture world has long been a tightly-woven, self-perpetuating male-dominated network, with females making only 5 to 10% of venture capital partners and 15% of angel investors.
Too many of these self-perpetuating entities are wasteful and inefficient.
It is hard to ignore the role of European expansion in the creation of the underdeveloped world's extractive institutions which, in self-perpetuating fashion, continue to constrain reform and development.
Major problems may, as we are assured, be very unlikely, but if something does go badly wrong with GM crops we will be faced with a form of pollution that is self-perpetuating.
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.
If they are wrong, if what Britain - and other advanced economies like the US - are suffering from is not a shortage of supply, but a prolonged and self-perpetuating shortage of demand, the whole story looks very different.
Hype about a product such as the iPhone is also self-perpetuating: Hearing that people are waiting in line for hours to get a product can make others want it more, said James Mol, psychologist at Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland, Oregon.
By expanding the tournament to include as many as four teams from the strongest nations and by introducing a group stage that guarantees each competing club at least six matches, European soccer officials have created a self-perpetuating system that plays to the strengths of historical powers.
It is the world written about by Chris Hayes in Twilight of the Elites, where children are prepped to be members of the meritocracy, that benign sounding name for the ruling classes, which has gone from instrument of democratization to self-perpetuating mechanism within a generation.
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This rule (which went into effect near the 2007 market top and was suspended near the 2009 bottom) vastly magnified subprime mortgage weakness, effectively forcing banks into near self-perpetuating rounds of asset writedowns, putting pressure on bank balance sheets until they had to sell more liquid assets to meet capital requirements.
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.
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