No longer could the NBA sustain the quota system limiting the number of black players on a team.
This means that the critical complexity (blue curve), which measures how much complexity a system can sustain without imploding, increases.
During the past 15 years or so international bank regulation has been concerned mostly with the ability of the system to sustain shocks, such as a stockmarket crash, a foreign-exchange crisis or a terrorist attack.
After all, investor confidence in the system is required to sustain it.
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To clarify, men like Yeager are forced to actually remove growth capital from the banking system in order to sustain their most basic standards of living.
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Since all forms of fractional-reserve lending are dependent on the perpetual creation of more and more credit that the system eventually can no longer sustain, it eventually collapses under its own weight.
The defence ministry says that to sustain a long-term operation, with a proper rotation system, it ideally likes to have at its disposal three or four ships or aircraft, and up to five army units, for every one deployed at any given time.
But he does not run a health-care system, and had to give up his practice to sustain his work.
Webvan built a sophisticated distribution system, based on centralised warehouses, but it proved too costly to sustain while the company tried to grow its business.
The government wants to scrap the current system of EU farm subsidies by taking the money out of food production to fund projects that sustain the rural environment.
It will take a similar system of public and private actions to lay the foundation for a new Social Compact, and to sustain it long enough to make up for the past 30 years of wage stagnation.
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