This financial scenario can create a domino effect in delaying life events, like putting off marriage or not saving for retirement.
In a letter Tuesday to media-buying agencies, the guild's West Coast branch said that if a new contract isn't reached by the May 1 deadline, a walkout by writers would create a domino effect of delays that would be felt through the fall, when many broadcast series debut their new seasons.
Moreover, it is precisely because refugees undergo the most extensive and complex vetting procedures applied to anyone entering the United States that a "pause" on resettlement will set off a domino effect that could delay resettlement efforts for years.
In highly-interconnected timetables or dense railway traffic, a single delayed train may cause a domino effect of secondary delays over the entire network, which is a main concern to planners and dispatchers.
He estimated that there could be a 20percentt reduction in peak hour service for commuters as a result of Amtrak's work, creating a "domino effect" that could mean increased delays on surrounding regional transit systems attempting to pick up the slack.
Medved said delays would have also created a domino effect, raising costs on a $300 million track-laying contract that can't begin until the tunnel is done.
"If one thing is delayed or goes wrong, it very much has a domino effect with all the other parts," Hankin said.
Delaying the phase of the subway that will run through Beverly Hills could have a "domino effect" on the subsequent phase of the project, to West L.A. and Westwood, Wu wrote.
Even a 10-second delay at a hyperactive station like Grand Central is a headache, Mr. Brusati said, because "it has a domino effect" that causes backups all along the line.
GM also had to delay development of its trucks by about a year because of its bankruptcy filing in 2009, causing a domino effect that hampered its efforts to keep up with rivals.
