Accordingly, these initiatives could spark potential upside to our base forecasts.

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Yet each has the potential to spark a pandemic, public-health experts fear.

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Rising interest rates hold the potential to spark a sovereign debt and currency crisis that will render the entire plan irrelevant anyway.

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At the recent World Economic Conference in Davos, Google Chief Executive EricSchmidtEric Schmidt said mobile Internet services have the potential to spark a "huge revolution" in the coming year, comparable to the "re-creation of the Internet" and the personal computer.

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As a former industry reporter in the Hedge Fund universe, I personally see a high potential for crowdfunding to spark a cottage financial industry.

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Splitting the company could unleash the value potential, argued Lit, helping spark a rally in the stock.

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The current three-day surge is the strongest for the major averages in three months, but with resistance looming the potential for an external factor to spark another downturn (like, say, the Fed ending its QE2 program Thursday) is certainly important to keep in mind.

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