The first big growth spurt took place in the 1960s behind high tariff walls.
But why such a growth spurt now, some 30 years after the sport began?
The shortfall in investment means that, by common consent, Brazil cannot sustain this year's growth spurt.
Amazon's real estate purchase comes as it finds itself in the midst of a dramatic growth spurt.
One of the biofuel ventures being nurtured by Royal Dutch Shell is having a little growth spurt.
Like Robson, Dean has struggled with the physical affects of a growth spurt but is now fully fit.
After a slower 15% growth spurt last year, CLSA predicts a 20% jump in luxury consumption in 2013.
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Indeed, it wasn't so long ago that Google was stealing top talent from Microsoft to fuel its growth spurt.
That number represents a healthy 100% growth spurt during the past 3 months.
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Google may have posted slightly sluggish earnings this time around, but China's dominant search engine had a growth spurt.
The chain is on a growth spurt: Over the past 12 months sales rose 41% and earnings rocketed 101% .
To understand how the site has fared during its growth spurt, I contacted Lavergne several months back and began a discussion.
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"From a 5ft 2in skinny little lad he had this growth spurt and he's now a 6ft strapping athlete, " he said.
We are in the midst of a growth spurt both residentially, commercially, industrially, but it fits in the middle of the Mississippi Delta.
In a previous report, studies showed that all computers notebooks, netbooks, and desktop machines were on schedule for another growth spurt.
Hammond was convinced the MLP business was poised for a growth spurt, like the one REITs had enjoyed a decade and a half earlier.
Smith notes that the company has been on a remarkable growth spurt, with revenues up 24% in 2011, after a 25% jump in 2010.
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For a brief period before the judge's ruling, the global legal wig industry was excited by the prospect of its first growth spurt in decades.
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Baidu (BIDU) is in the midst of an unprecedented growth spurt.
One camp sees emerging markets going in a new direction, perhaps inspired by China's remarkable growth spurt and its mix of government control and market forces.
Social networks can put pressure on job board prices, but they could also cause another growth spurt when social media burnout is reached in the employment space.
This year marks the true start of all of this activity, but this growth spurt will be around for at least two to three years or longer.
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In December 2010, AnaTango sought out clients and in the last six months of 2011, AnaTango enjoyed a significant growth spurt ending the year with 20 clients.
The furious growth spurt seen in the global smartphone market last year is expected to be pacified by intensifying price competition compounded by a slew of new products.
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This is the second effective nationalization in the space of a week in Iceland, and marks a dismal end to the past decade's international growth spurt for Icelandic banks.
On the other hand, teens who are "late bloomers" can have minimal height changes until they have a larger growth spurt around the time of their relatively late puberty.
Indeed, it wasn't so long ago that Google was stealing top talent from Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) to fuel its growth spurt.
If Greece were able to devalue this would be mitigated by a growth spurt as exports and tourism came back, but there is more than one obstacle to this.
Thanks to a series of severe storms that clobbered electric-power grids in New York and Connecticut recently, the fuel-cell industry appears poised for a modest to massive growth spurt.
After a growth spurt last year, there are more than 66, 000 units of U.S.-based fast-food restaurants abroad just among the 10 largest chains, data from trade publication QSR magazine shows.
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