The trick is to figure that out fast and inexpensively.

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Well, they had better figure it out fast.

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Republicans have to figure out -- and fast -- whether they see Hispanics as a foil or as their future.

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And when they do dual sourcing, they like to pick a big company and a small company to make sure the big company will respond as quickly as the small company and the small company will figure out how to scale as fast as they can to catch up with the big company.

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But, no, it took a long time to figure out how long to stir, how fast to stir.

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To figure that out, scientists must look at how fast the boson decays into other particles, and see how the decay rate stacks up against predictions.

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IBM's Watson supercomputer can field an awkwardly worded question, figure out what you're trying to ask, retrieve the answer and spit it out fast enough to beat human champions on the TV quiz show "Jeopardy!"

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