But sometimes the best ideas start small, spread widely and then transform entire systems.
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The slowdown was spread widely across the country, the report said, with income growth declining in 41 states.
In Afghanistan, where far fewer people have televisions or even electricity, the images aren't likely to spread widely.
Fortunately, she hadn't been coughing much, so the disease hadn't spread widely.
The shelters are spread widely across the tax code and income lines.
Selerity alerted clients, who were able to buy gasoline futures contracts before the news spread widely and caused prices to soar, says Mr. Terpstra.
Though fast flux was originally developed by a Russian group of phishers in 2006, the tactic spread widely through the industry this past year.
The advice site now attracts 3 million unique visitors each month, hooking its audience with fact-checked health articles that then spread widely via social media.
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Dr Mahathir's argument was that government largesse had been spread widely.
And the distribution of its spoils isn't always spread widely.
With a basket spread widely around the globe, Brinson argues, you can get equity-like returns with the low volatility you would expect from a balanced portfolio (a mixture of stocks and bonds).
Past influenza viruses have needed more than six months to spread as widely as the current H1N1 virus has spread in less than six weeks, it said.
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The FTC also uses the database to spot new problems before they spread more widely, he added.
If house-price weakness does spread more widely, there may be important economic consequences.
Now what did you make of the recent Love Bug virus that seemed to spread so widely and certainly capture people's imagination.
These rules spread distortions widely throughout the economy, costing billions of dollars.
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As micro-blogging sites such as Twitter become more mainstream (similar offerings include Pownce and Google's Jaiku), the practice will likely spread more widely.
Her cancer, she says, has spread so widely, touching her brain and liver that Avastin would no longer be of use to her.
And, with fewer turbines needed to produce the same amount of power, they can be spread more widely, making them easier on the eye.
The fact that the virus has spread as widely as it has only underscores the lack of basic information security knowledge in even major corporations.
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The effect is self-magnifying, Mussa says, because economic interconnectedness means a global downturn will happen more quickly, spread more widely and go deeper than it otherwise would.
With judicious use of a fictional narrative he then draws the story forward, bringing in some startling new evidence for how HIV was able to spread so widely.
The central questions for the inquest at Lambeth Town Hall to address will be to find out why six residents perished in flats away from the original seat of the fire in flat 65 and how did it spread so widely.
The technology is over 60 years old and the materials and skills needed are widely spread.
And their approach of being widely spread and tightly owned has lots of puff left.
Researchers have long been puzzled by how crocodiles managed to spread themselves so widely.
Then Europe's economic recovery and the boom in East Asia pushed up their prices and spread them more widely.
No wonder the analysts' forecasts are so widely spread (see chart 1).
They should spread their bets widely, monitor progress closely, and cut losses promptly.
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