You have altered the menu of food items served to your patients. However, the change has greatly expanded the number of refrigerated items needed on hand. You need to buy a new refrigerator, but the electric circuit in the kitchen cannot handle the extra load and needs to be upgraded at significant expense. This set of unintended consequences down the line, produced by an initial change, is called:
A. dynamic homeostasis.
B. semi-planned change.
C. negentropy.
D. reverberation.
Answer: D. reverberation.
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