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The Dodgers lost, the last domino in a cascade triggered by a front office that miscast its humans as widgets in a search for even the tiniest of edges.

Understanding of tipping points has improved since the last report, its authors said, allowing for greater confidence in estimating when one might spark a domino effect of catastrophic and often irreversible disasters.

It felt like one domino kept bumping into the next.

“Our dad introduced us to the pole vault. We just fell in love with it - a kind of domino effect.”

According to the “domino theory,” countries around the world would fall to communism one-by-one — unless America stopped its spread.