It appears that Pebble's smartwatch is officially feeling its largest growing pain since debuting just two months ago.

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But plenty of investors would probably like to buy, say, a fast-growing pain or vaccine business and skip the less attractive parts of the company.

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The growing pain of a startup.

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's earnings are still growing fast, but the risk due to pain drugs Celebrex and Bextra is only increasing.

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"The group's move into growing emerging markets is alleviating much of the pain being experienced throughout developed markets, " said Keith Bowman, an analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown Stockbrokers.

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The report, published next week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Online Early Edition, studied how volunteers responded to real-life stories chosen to stimulate admiration for virtue or skill, or compassion for physical or social pain. iReport.com : Growing pains for Twitter, Facebook?

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And although the economy is growing again, too many people are still feeling the pain of the downturn.

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In Thailand, as elsewhere, the next stage of Asia's depression will see growing pressure on western lenders to bear more of the pain of a slump they helped create.

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So the economy may be growing again, but that growth has not nearly made up for the terrible pain and dislocations that rocked businesses and families over the course of a very difficult two years.

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