Sales and initial public offerings of companies owned by buyout firms are slowing at an even faster pace, Preqin says.

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As the cost of goods and services rises, purchasing power is diminished if wealth is not increased at an even faster pace.

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Imports have also contracted at an even faster pace than exports, down 43%, the biggest fall since data began being collected in 1995.

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Although Chile and other Latin American countries have pushed through an impressive array of pro-business reforms since 2005, other countries in other parts of the world are improving their business regulations at an even faster pace.

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Since the adjustment of the covered earnings ceiling depends on nominal wage growth, if inflation takes off or if real wages grow even more rapidly, the covered earnings ceiling will grow at an even faster pace.

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But it turns out that there may be a hidden culprit lurking inside your MP3 player, sucking the juice out of your batteries at a faster pace than you even realized: PlaysForSure DRM.

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But the Qualcomm and Nvidia reports hint that the pace of change is even faster than investors anticipated.

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The growth rate in apps, even though they too are manufactured products, is moving at a blazingly faster pace.

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