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The design of any government or internal bureaucracy should purposefully try to minimize the effects of these bad incentives and include counter-balancing incentives (to create a negative-feedback loop).
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The best the president can do is reduce USGOV interference and distortions, keep the negative-feedback loop of the economy in sync and promote pro-entrepreneurial public policy.
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The remaining multi-employer plan would be back in the black, free to start the negative-feedback loop of underpayments and overpromises again.
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The U.S. — and much of the world — became trapped in a vicious negative-feedback cycle.
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He declined to comment specifically on the performance of the dollar, but he said he believes the U.S. economy is in a so-called negative-feedback loop, in which a weaker dollar threatens to fan inflationary pressures that in turn lead to a weaker currency.
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When the cycle shifts, lenders tighten standards and become more demanding about the collateral they hold, feeding into the negative-feedback loops hitting the economy.
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Economists have a term to describe what it means when things keep going from bad to worse: negative-feedback loop.
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These genes manufacture proteins that work in a kind of 24-hour negative-feedback loop -- as the level of proteins builds up, they act to reverse the process, choking off the supply.
NIGHT SHIFT 2007
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Perhaps Mother Nature has a few negative-feedback and other dampening mechanisms present in her toolkit.
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The dolphin downstroked with his tail, arching his back a bit, and the negative-feedback mechanisms in the levitator pads matched the gesture, flexing the pad so that the dolphin seemed to swim through the air down off the transporter platform and toward the doors.
Dark Mirror Diane Duane 1993
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