And then molybdenum prices plummeted as the crippling trickle-down effects of the global financial turmoil hit the mining industry.
But there is something of a trickle-down effect, according to James Boyd, a spokesman for Singapore Airlines.
"They have better trickle-down economics, are not affected by a weak dollar or whatever else, " he says.
Compress the time frame, and you have the same trickle-down operating in fashion.
The trickle-down effect of the automobile industry's woes is turning into a flood.
The charitable ways of Gates and Buffett also provide living proof that the "trickle-down theory" is in fact reality.
But if those workers have any spare change, could investing in Tiffany give them a share of the trickle-down effect?
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The Mapocho river - usually a trickle - has become a torrent.
Nomura expects Wall Street estimates to have penciled in an overly aggressive ARPU growth rate, which should trickle-down to total service revenue.
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The trickle-down effects of the explosion in trade with Iraq are more dramatic in places like the Turkish border town of Slopi(ph).
The so-called trickle-down economy has never worked, despite the protestations of conservatives.
Now it seems that there will be "trickle-up" instead: Volvo's sharp design, excellent safety engineering and strong build quality will influence everything Ford does.
Or a country can have very unequal distributions of wealth where trickle-down capitalism has made even those on welfare incredibly rich by global standards.
And yet, for much of the last century, we have been having the same argument with folks who keep peddling some version of trickle-down economics.
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Once the real-estate market begins to improve, we would expect a trickle-through effect into retail, education, and other everyday living requirement to come into play.
In return for the votes of the young, Mr Lagos is offering positive discrimination for the disadvantaged, as an alternative to reliance on trickle-down economics.
Whatever the means, there will be an effect of trickle-down taxes.
Now, they have tried to sell this kind of trickle-down fairy dust before. (Laughter.) And frankly, they tried it as recently as 2001, 2002, 2003.
But even the early sequences show evidence of trickle-down portentousness.
It takes at least 20 milliwatts to keep a mobile phone operating in standby mode, but Nokia hopes that power scavenging might eventually deliver 50 milliwatts, enough to trickle-charge a phone.
But the other 19 will experience trickle-down misery firsthand.
This trickle-down theory of free speech is probably premature.
Trickle-down economics from Republicans got us into this mess.
"This Tory-led government are committed to promoting a discredited growth model of trickle-down economics which will do nothing to reduce poverty in the developing world, " said shadow international development secretary Ivan Lewis.
This has a trickle-down effect, preventing younger generations from moving up in the workplace or from moving into the workplace to acquire the wealth they would need to drive new demand for homes.
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"The techniques have a trickle-down effect on the whole society and get the mechanic or the farmer back to work faster, too, " says Dr. Claude Moorman III, director of sports medicine at Duke University.
Rather than rely on a "trickle-down" approach to reducing inequity, political and educational leaders in the United States have adopted a strategy of targeting specific groups of students and mounting programs tailored to their needs.
He has condemned his Republican opponents for what he called "you're on your own economics" and said that the trickle-down theory - that when the rich get richer so does everybody else - "has never worked".
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