The flow from the source of the Pearl River, which empties into the South China Sea near Hong Kong and Macau, has been reduced to a trickle from a waterfall.
And orders for the anticheat chips are starting to trickle in from Vegas, where Gaming Partners is based.
It will take some time for this realization to trickle up from, or down to, Main Street, but it will happen.
And software suppliers are preparing for a different revenue model: instead of chunks of licence fees at point-of-sale, monthly-usage fees will trickle in from their customers.
The monster TV contracts trickle down from the conferences to each institution, making each team better able to compete in the stadium and workout facilities arms race.
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You see, Republicans in Congress and their nominee for President believe that the best way to create prosperity in America is to let it trickle down from the top.
So parents and children are supposed to sit tight and wait on the promised reform to trickle down from Washington to the local school systems, and then all will be well?
The following year complaints began to trickle in from victualling yards in the UK and from British seamen around the world that other parts of animals were being found in canned meat.
But investors in gold exploration probably care more about the treasure to be unearthed than the trickle of income from ongoing sales.
But some see the interest in fake animal material in fashion as simply the trickle down effect from more of the real thing appearing on runways.
In the 1980s a trickle of smart students began to emerge once again from universities, and the trickle has since become a flood, providing an immense pool of talented Chinese, says Daniel Vasella, Novartis's chief executive.
The flow from cash into stocks and real estate has moved from a trickle to a small stream.
Trickle-down economics from Republicans got us into this mess.
To be sure, the move toward search ads isn't strictly new, argues eMarketer analyst David Hallerman--the trickle of advertising funds from banner ads to pay-per-click search ads has been a slow process, he says.
The call for new labour has reached immigrants in Honduras and Mexico, from which a trickle of workers both legal and illegal are travelling north to find work.
The only certainty that Guatemalans could infer from the slow trickle of Sunday's presidential election results was that uncertainty over who their next president will be is set to linger for another two months.
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And she has welcomed any acceptance by the Tories that the "trickle down effect" of wealth from the richest to the poorest did not work.
From an initial insubstantial trickle it has grown to a world-class waterway, and as it spreads to 29km wide between Whitstable and Foulness Point, the Thames is heavy, not only with water, but millennia of history.
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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In 1997, aged 32, she moved back to Beijing from New York, joining a steady trickle of returnees (the Chinese call them hai gui or sea-turtles): young, western-educated professionals keen to apply their new skills in their own country, and to get rich.
Likewise, in the conventional thinking about markets, economic progress depends not on the labors of infinite economic actors but on the select few, the brainiacs, who rise to the top and generate innovations from which ordinary mortals benefit through a kind of trickle-down effect.
On Saturday, officers allowed owners to trickle back to their homes and offered free meals and water bottles from a command post set up in an RV.
Sales of everything, from school satchels to air-conditioners, are at a trickle, and the newspapers are full of advertisements for zero-interest, no-deposit luxury flats.
Although a trickle of Russians, foreign passports safely in hand, are now returning from the West, overall the brain drain looks set to get worse, not better.
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The trickle of hard currency brought in by a few intrepid travellers helped buy food from across the border in Botswana and Zambia, and while some rangers sought work in other countries, a hardy band of guides stayed on to try and protect the animals from poaching.
These shapes, said Mr. Haverland, "trickle down the walls in kind of a mannerist way, " tapering in size from 25- to 4-inches-wide.
More and more singer-songwriters from the pop world seem to be hearing that siren song: The trickle of pop and rock stars turning to the stage is fast becoming a flood.
Mr. Arafat had also observed the unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, under pressure, with no formal deal, and seemingly as a result of a mere trickle of casualties.
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