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	Virtuous circle and vicious circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When this tendency is absent we use terms like virtuous circle and vicious circle (or virtuous cycle and vicious cycle) to describe these unstable pattern of events.
		Both circles are complexes of events with no tendency towards equilibrium (at least in the short run).
		The Problem of Conflicted Virtue - In this link the author is using virtue in the sense of a positive outcome (balance of payments surplus) that conflicts with long term regional growth and stability.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virtuous_circle_and_vicious_circle (799 words)

	Eye Circles -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		All circles are similar; as a consequence, a circle's circumference and radius are proportional, as are its area and the square of its radius.
		The circle of fifths, or fourths, may be mapped from the chromatic scale by multiplication, and vice versus.
		To map between the circle of fifths and the chromatic scale (in integer notation) multiply by 7 (M7), and for the circle of fourths multiply by 5 (M5).
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/49/eye-circles.html (1210 words)

	TheStreet.com: Wall Street and the Virtuous Circle
		The virtuous circle is simple: An investment bank decides which clients get a piece of a stock or bond issue, and institutional clients decide which brokerage gets their trading dollars.
		What's noteworthy about the virtuous circle is not that it occurs, but that it seems to be occurring with more regularity and, indeed, that it has been unofficially adopted as house policy at some of Wall Street's biggest investment banks.
		Whether the virtuous circle involves implied agreements or is just the way business is done is debatable, although the result is not: Big brokerages get bigger.
	www.thestreet.com /stocks/topstories/601324.html (1087 words)

	Definition
		We can think of this as a virtuous circle, in which intensified division of labor raises labor productivity, increasing incomes, increasing demand, creating larger markets which then afford the opportunity for further increase in the division of labor, starting the spiral over again.
		Modern virtuous circle theorists would all agree with Smith that the government ought not do anything to cause the cycle to be broken, but some of the twentieth-century virtuous circle theorists might call on the government to remove barriers that could arise in the private sector.
		The "virtuous circle:" growth increases the scale of production, which allows the work of production to be organized in more collaborative ways, which increases labor productivity, which in turn further increases the scale of production, starting the cycle again.
	william-king.www.drexel.edu /top/prin/txt/gro/groOH.html (996 words)

	The Virtuous Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Such a system could not tolerate the clogging that would result from the accumulated burden of cases if only a very small percentage of the daily transactions became disputes.
		Indeed, a virtuous cycle is at work: because there is vast volume, disputes are intolerable; and because disputes have not been tolerated, expansion of the volume has been enabled.
		The sheer magnitude of the operations of the international payments system virtually guarantees that there will be issues of many types.
	www.ilpf.org /events/jurisdiction/presentations/judypr/sld010.htm (349 words)

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		When this 7 tendency is absent we 6 use terms like virtuous 9 circle and vicious circle 9 (or virtuous cycle and 8 vicious cycle) to describe 1 these unstable pattern of 1 events.
		Both 8 circles are complexes of 1 events with no tendency 4 towards equilibrium (at 1 least in the 9 short run).
		The Problem 8 of Conflicted Virtue 1 - In this link 6 the author is 1 using virtue in the 5 sense of a 9 positive outcome (balance of 7 payments surplus) that 1 conflicts with long term 8 regional growth and stability.
	www.cleog.com /vicious_cycle_.htm (835 words)

	Financial Sense Editorial "A Virtuous Circle Becomes a Vicious Cycle" by John Dickerson 06.22.2004
		With globalization as the root cause for many onerous events spawned in our economy, we believe we are at the leading edge of a vicious cycle that will result in an inflationary price environment for tangible assets, along with a deflationary value trend for financial assets.
		Indeed, we were the primary beneficiaries of a virtuous circle: We consumed, Asia manufactured, we sent them our dollars in payment and they recycled the dollars by purchasing our debt, thus enabling the cycle to perpetuate itself.
		We are in a new competitive environment and the U.S. is no longer in a virtuous circle, but rather has become caught in a vicious cycle.
	www.financialsense.com /editorials/dickerson/2004/0622.html (2762 words)

	Undereye Circles -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		''The First Circle'' (В круге первом, ''V kruge pervom'') is a novel by Alexander Solzhenitsyn released in 1968, the title of which is based on a quotation from Dante.
		It describes three or so days in the life of the occupants of the Mavrino sharashka, many of whom are technicians or academics who have been arrested under Article 58 of the RSFSR Penal Code under Stalin in the years following the Second World War.
		''Circle Of Three'' is a 15-book series by Isobel Bird about 3 girls, a "nerd", a "rebel", and a "prep", who find each other and become best friends through the accidental introduction of the prep to Witchcraft also known as the religion of Wicca.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/152/undereye-circles.html (1406 words)

	Archives & Museum Informatics: Museums and the Web 2006: Papers: Barry, Creating A Virtuous Circle Between A ...
		In 2004, the Natural History Museum agreed on a strategy to develop and improve the relationship between the physical and virtual space, and to develop a virtuous circle that ensured the visitor journey was a continuum between the two museum offerings.
		The deliberate adoption of the new strategy meant that the ‘virtuous circle’ was internally recognised as an important objective within a project, and would receive explicit funding and resources for realization.
		To evaluate interest in the concept of the virtuous circle, the Museum conducted front-end evaluation on the upcoming exhibition.
	www.archimuse.com /mw2006/papers/barry/barry.html (4205 words)

	The Virtuous Circle - StarIQ.com
		Around 1970, economic activity indicated that this virtuous circle had been broken, and we were entering a new, transformative time economically.
		During the virtuous circle economy years, from the late 1940s into the early 1960s, the transformative planets Pluto, Neptune and Uranus were out of major aspect or forming positive aspects with the U.S.' economically-sensitive planetary positions.
		In brief, the virtuous circle economy declined and the new global economy arose as Pluto, Neptune and Uranus moved around the zodiac into adverse aspects with the U.S.' most sensitive points economically: the U.S. Gemini Ascendant, Mars-square-Neptune and Sun-square-Saturn.
	www.stariq.com /Main/Articles/P0001245.htm (1134 words)

	The Future of Inter-Korean Relations: from Vicious Circle to Virtuous Cycle
		This vicious circle of recriminations is based on the master narratives of “dangerous North Korea”, on the one hand, and “greedy American warmongers”, on the other.
		The vicious circle of mistrust was first broken by the 1994 Agreed Framework, in which each side to the confrontation not only recognised its adversary’s security concerns but also took measures to allay them.
		In the situation where it is virtually heresy even to raise the issue, let alone discuss a detailed road plan toward ending the armistice, one possible way to resolve the differences seems to lie in a set of simultaneous non-aggression pacts between the parties to the Korean War.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/champion/65/virtuous_cycle.html (1759 words)

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		In many parts of economics there 6 is an assumption that 3 a complex system of 4 determinants will tend 7 to lead to 7 a state of equilibrium.
		1 When this 3 tendency is absent we 4 use terms like virtuous 8 circle and vicious circle 5 (or virtuous cycle 5 and vicious cycle) 9 to describe these unstable 0 pattern of events.
		The 7 Problem of Conflicted 2 Virtue - In 6 this link the 3 author is using 2 virtue in the sense 0 of a positive outcome 7 (balance of payments surplus) 3 that conflicts with long 9 term regional growth and 3 stability.
	www.cleog.com /virtuous_cycle_.htm (884 words)

	Marakon Associates \| Sustaining Value Growth: Creating a Virtuous Circle of Growth and Profitability By Brian H. ...
		Virtually every CEO aspires to grow his or her company, but how they define growth varies widely.
		In fact, the two should create a virtuous circle.
		Broadly speaking, this virtuous circle stems from three interrelated practices: being selective in the growth they pursue, with high standards for what constitutes good growth and zero tolerance for bad growth; funding only growth that increases profitability; and exploiting higher profitability to create the resources to support higher growth.
	www.marakon.com /ida_030830_burwell_02.html (635 words)

	Virtuous - About Virtuous
		Sure, Virtuous tickets are affordable, so you can go out more often, and our business practices are just, so artists and promoters can put on more shows, but Virtuous goes farther by giving back 10% of our profits to your community.
		We're forming a virtuous circle, a circle in which your community is quite literally enriched by your entertainment activities.
		Virtuous is a fiercely independent, worker- and musician-owned business headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
	virtuous.com /info (352 words)

	The Virtuous Circle, Sojourners Magazine/August 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"If one loves justice, the fruits of Wisdom’s works are virtues for she teaches moderation and prudence, justice and fortitude, and nothing in life is more useful than these" (8:7).
		According to Hannah Arendt, prudence is a public virtue because prudent conclusions arrive from the free exchange of ideas and experiences in the public sphere which, Arendt concludes, protects a society from totalitarianism.
		As Christians, we experiment with these virtues because they help us to know God more intimately and they generate a sense of well-being in the world God created.
	www.sojo.net /index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0508&article=050865 (701 words)

	The Financial Model: Creating a 'Virtuous Circle of Satisfaction' \| April 2004 \| Imaging Economics
		The Cardiac Care Center was established in a collaborative effort by physicians in several medical practices in the Philadelphia area to provide diagnostic cardiac catheterization services in an outpatient setting similar to a physician office.
		The developers of the model realized that by providing a superior, supportive, patient-oriented service, they would win the approval of not only the patients but their physicians as well.
		"Higher patient satisfaction generates a virtuous circle of satisfaction that is ultimately economically beneficial for participating cardiologists," notes F. Stewart DeBruicker, adjunct professor of marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), who has studied the center's financial model.
	www.imagingeconomics.com /library/200404-04.asp (721 words)

	Virtuous Circle
		Also since the virtuous father in law is an Episcopal priest, I’m sure the topic will come up at some point.
		First, the portrayal of Jesus is not in my opinion blasphemous-rather he was shown as a real presence in the life of the protagonist-Rev Daniel Webster (yes we get it Daniel Webster who out debated the devil himself).
		The Virtuous Middle Son and his DNA model-no help from mom or dad.
	virtuouscircle.typepad.com /virtuouscircle (1257 words)

	SmartBusinessPractices: Disrupts Virtuous Circle
		The economist Harry T. Oshima has helpfully described the “virtuous circle” that occurs in an economy that is far different from our own very loose labor market with surpluses of workers.
		What we have had for three decades in this nation is the opposite of that economic “virtuous circle;” we have had the “vicious cycle.” The availability of larger and larger numbers of foreign workers has led employers to substitute labor for capital development and innovation.
		And, of course, the rising incomes of American workers during a “virtuous circle” economy drives consumer purchasing and business success.
	www.smartbusinesspractices.com /harms_virtuouscircle.php (390 words)

	NCPA - Policy Backgrounder 158 - Technology and Freedom: The Virtuous Circle
		Technology and freedom are symbiotic, forming a virtuous circle.
		Ultimately, developing nations have the most to gain from the virtuous circle of freedom breeding technology and technology breeding freedom.
		From what I have seen of the world the proportion of private persons who are prepared to try new possibilities, if they appear to them to promise better conditions, and if they are not prevented by the pressure of their fellows, is much the same everywhere.
	www.ncpa.org /pub/bg/bg158 (3816 words)

	CareerJournal \| Virtuous Circles Prove Elusive for Recruiters
		To put it another way, the virtuous circle becomes the loser's circle.
		They post open jobs, search for resumes and invest in corporate recruitment sites (they do everything they should to create a virtual virtuous circle) but they still don't get the yield they need to win in the War for Talent.
		While there certainly are other issues involved in transforming a recruiting process into a virtuous circle, those addressed above are probably the most important.
	www.careerjournal.com /hrcenter/weddlesguide/20020722-weddle142.html (1004 words)

	Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, just as the circle has more links, there are more ways the virtuous circle might be broken, causing growth to slow or stop.
		An industry that is small and new may be unable to compete with more established similar industries in other countries, or even with low-wage industries in the home country, and thus never obtain the resources necessary to grow and take advantage of its economies of scale and learning potential.
		But as Smith did suspect, the monopolies break the virtuous circle because, instead of expanding production, they use the increased productivity to push their profit margin up.
	william-king.www.drexel.edu /top/prin/txt/gro/gro21b.html (479 words)

	Iconoduel \| A More Virtuous Circle
		Correction is installed as a circle, with six rear-projection screens positioned around a central group of viewing benches.
		Projected on each screen are a series of brief video portraits featuring inmates and guards from four prisons in Illinois and California shot in their institutional environs.
		The first of three commissioned works created through The Three M Project, a joint venture of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York) and the UCLA Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Fiona Tan's Correction is on display at the MCA from October 2, 2004–January 23, 2005.
	www.iconoduel.org /archives/2004/10/000484_a_more_virtuous_circle.php (1494 words)

	US dollar's "virtuous circle" may be turning vicious
		US dollar’s "virtuous circle" may be turning vicious
		There are clear signs in financial markets that the long-predicted day of reckoning for the US dollar may be close at hand.
		This will spell “serious trouble” for the world economy—more dependent than ever on an expanding US market—as what seemed to be a virtuous circle in the late 1990s, in which financial inflows into the US prompted still greater inflows, turns increasingly vicious.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/jun2002/doll-j18.shtml (1401 words)

	Children of Kaos - Welcome Page; The spirit of dance, rave, techno, house music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If you've not come across this term before, a Virtuous Circle is exactly the opposite of a vicious circle.
		A Virtuous Circle, on the other hand, is a self-fulfilling, self-fuelling upward spiral that loses enemies and gains friends (sometimes converting enemies into friends) and improves your life beyond recognition.
		If you are committed, sign our guestbook and say there that you are a supporter of the Virtuous Circle.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/Mark_Ridley/welcome.htm (816 words)

	The Virtuous Circle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Conventional heritage conservation can produce a one-time flow through the system by the conservation of a given heritage resource, such as an object in a museum or a heritage building, when it is treated as a single project focused on a particular object.
		A virtuous cycle can be stimulated by artists' hunger for connections and adding the connecting stories related to the particular object of the conservation process.
		It is up to the cultural community to work together, and together with the municipal, senior government and business partners to thoughtfully develop the specific policy and business frameworks to realize this full potential of community storytelling through the arts.
	www.artsonline.ca /2005/virtuouscircle.html (4769 words)

	Schaeffer's Media Outtakes: The Virtuous Circle
		The process described above is clearly a "virtuous circle" for insulating the market against major corrections.
		One never knows, but if were to occur sooner rather than later, it would likely involve an exogenous shock or a sudden change in the perception by investors of, say, the negative implications of rising interest rates and an inverted yield curve.
		The danger is that once a virtuous circle is interrupted, the negative consequences are often far greater and more lasting than if "normal" market behavior had been the rule.
	www.schaeffersresearch.com /commentary/bernie_observations.aspx?ID=15258&c=berniefeed (1040 words)

	The Virtuous Circle
		We can trace a virtuous or vicious circle from anywhere on the loop.
		This renewed training results in higher competence and the Virtuous circle repeats and reinforces.
		This virtuous circle is one of the most powerful motivators for the human race
	www.strategosinc.com /team_motivation.htm (236 words)

	Amazon.com: A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies (Communication, Society and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A Virtuous Circle sets out to challenge the conventional wisdom that it is. Based on a comparative examination of the role of the news media and parties in postindustrial societies, this study argues that rather than mistakenly "blaming the messenger" we need to understand and confront more deep-rooted flaws in the systems of representative democracy.
		A Virtuous Circle is praiseworthy both for its sumptuous comparative statistics on the news media across European and North American democracies, and for its unflappable sanity and even ruddy hopefulness about the state of the media (but not necessarily the state of the world) today.
		This is the "virtuous" rather than "vicious" circle of her title.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521793645?v=glance (2171 words)

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