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It was the kind of hiccup that can set off a cascade of delays across the vast rail network.

As administrators in major hospitals around the country know well, a dawdling patient transporter can set off a chain reaction of delays throughout the institution.

The latest delay set off a 4percentt decline in its share price, less than the 35percentt decline when it announced the first delay in January.

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.

A ball of fire that erupted on the subway tracks here Thursday injured no one but set off a chain of rush-hour delays that have become maddeningly common.

Though delayed, Bello's interview set off a criminal investigation.

It is among more than a thousand recipes in "Modernist Cuisine," a cookbook whose publishing delay, announced on Sept. 15, set off a collective sigh among gastronomes.

But a nine-day delay in the distribution of fuel coupons earlier this year set off a panic.

In November, the Dubai government set off a wave of investor panic after it told creditors that it would delay interest payments on the debt that Dubai World owed.

Last spring, a dispute over delayed paychecks in one Alcoa plant here set off a brief work stoppage.

But when Beijing devalued last year, it set off a dramatic chain reaction throughout global stock and bond markets, with the result that Yellen found she had to delay a rate rise.