  We consider a wide class of cascading gauge theories which usually lead to
runaway behaviour in the IR, and discuss possible deformations of the
superpotential at the bottom of the cascade which stabilize the runaway
direction and provide stable non-supersymmetric vacua. The models we find may
allow for a weakly coupled supergravity analysis of dynamical supersymmetric
breaking in the context of the gauge/string correspondence.
