• When the economy and consumption slowed down, manufacturers laid employees off rather rapidly.

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  • One of the major benefits of this development is that it only adds a single step to the manufacturing process, meaning that this technique can be adapted to current cells rather rapidly.

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  • In addition, depreciation deductions track historical cost rather than rapidly rising replacement costs, adding to short-term profit during inflationary times.

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  • On the plus side, the municipal bond market would rapidly become a national rather than a regional securities market.

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  • But Richard Jeffrey, an economist at Charterhouse, an investment bank, fears that the economy is still expanding too rapidly, and that a rather harder landing may therefore be in prospect.

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  • But in crowded cities the great outdoors is rapidly becoming an elite destination - rather than a life-sentence to rural poverty - and domestic tourism is taking off along with the consumer lifestyle.

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  • The decision made by the Greek Prime Minister, or rather the announcement he made just reinforces the notion that we need to -- or the Europeans, rather, need to elaborate further and implement rapidly the decisions they made last week.

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  • While politicians--especially the new administration--focus on rapidly rising health care costs, one rather important piece of good news is that hospital inpatient mortality rates are plummeting.

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  • Prosthetic limbs aren't the only technology undergoing a renaissance neural implants are also rapidly maturing, promising to provide mental augmentation rather than physical.

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  • The idea is to respond more rapidly to what customers are actually buying, rather than filling stores with what executives at head office think they should buy.

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  • We should also look at our own businesses and ask ourselves whether we should be doing a Ron Johnson on our company, rather than continuing with business as usual as the world changes rapidly around us.

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  • The intent was to free itself from a maps app which was consistently offering a better experience to Android users rather than those who prefer iPhone, but the result, as rapidly became clear, was a fiasco.

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  • In our global, networked economy, the lone wolf is rapidly becoming an anachronism, one that threatens to impede innovation rather than fostering it.

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  • Emissions are rapidly declining, yet money and power remains largely with the people rather than the government.

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  • Or, rather, it was a species 50 years ago, but it is now heading rapidly towards becoming at least four of them.

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  • It it able to grow rapidly - up to 26cm a day - because it concentrates on extending its growth shoots rather than expending energy on developing support structures.

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  • "In no way does this threaten the future of the airport, rather, it's to their advantage as we want to grow it and make it as successful as rapidly as possible, " he added.

    BBC: Newquay airport

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