And it speeded up the plants' growing period, cutting between eight and 12 weeks off the usual life cycle.
But 1960s America was also a period of growing concern (hysteria, even) about population in developing countries.
There then followed a period of growing disorder, in which separatist and religious violence threatened to engulf the country.
In a period of growing interconnectivity, it becomes increasingly important for entities to distinguish themselves in order to find growth.
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With Cyber Monday deals also spread over three days, we expect the traffic to keep growing steadily over the period and help the company sustain its growth in what should be a blockbuster holiday season.
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The second fastest-growing franchise during that time period commercial-cleaning chain Jani-King of Addison, Texas added just over 4, 500 new locations during the same period.
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It had followed a period of drift and growing tension, marked by strikes, assassinations, riots and intrigues between Communists, Muslim Brothers and the king.
It's a bit of a puzzle, because independent surveys of public sector earnings don't show average public sector pay growing nearly as fast during this period.
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The combination of a GOP Congress and Bill Clinton in the White House led to a four-year period of government spending growing by an average of just 2.9 percent each year.
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Farmers can adjust to earlier planting times, perhaps avoiding some extreme temperatures during the sensitive flowering period, and lengthening the growing season.
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While hosting is growing at 24% year over year growth, the higher-margin Cloud segment is growing at 89% over the same period last year.
Dynamics posted an 11% revenue increase from the prior year period, with Dynamics CRM revenue growing more than 30%.
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Over the same period, industrial value-added was growing at a cracking 9%, said the statistics.
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Over the past year, Bienenstock notes, the carrier has lost 8.9% of its contract customers and 5.4% of its service revenues, in a period in which the market has been growing.
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Sales in China were 4% lower in the quarter after growing by 10% in the October-December period in 2011, while sales in struggling Europe fell 5% in the final quarter of the year.
Jamba (JMBA) announced that it lost nine cents per share during the fourth quarter of 2012, beating estimates by a penny, and ahead of the loss of 15 cents per share in the same period last year, mainly due to growing efficiency.
Internet retailer Amazon grew 33% during the period, making it the sixth fastest-growing firm.
Tablet computer shipments soared in the first quarter of 2013, growing by 142.4% compared with the same period in 2012, according to analysts IDC.
By contrast, those aged over 40 will grow by 270m, or more than half, over the same period (with those aged 60 and older growing the fastest).
The civil complaint lays out a dizzying array of transactions that Enron employed over a four-year period to make it appear that earnings were growing steadily and that the company was able to pay its debts--many of which were hidden from shareholders through the use of off-the-book and offshore partnerships.
The fastest growing category of enterprise software will be Web Conferencing and Team, growing at a 12.4% CAGR through the forecast period.
The current OBR forecast has cash GDP growing by just under 4.3% on average over this period.
Given that the period opening up between midlife and anything resembling old age is growing and could be as long as the middle years in duration it's worth experimenting with new roles.
The ever-growing insolvency figures, the change of credit culture and the much shorter bankruptcy period lead to one logical conclusion.
Sales volume was still growing 20% in the first quarter ended Sept. 30, over the same period last year.
While applications for SunPower panels is strong this year, up 88% over the same period last year, it is lagging the overall market, which is growing at a clip of 190%.
After growing Mac unit sales by a CAGR of over 23% in the four year period until 2011, Apple saw its PC sales decline by over 4% in 2012, by our estimates.
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This theory holds that in its early history, the observable Universe underwent a period of exponential expansion, doubling in size many dozens of times, growing our observiball a tiny fraction of the size of an atomic nucleus to that of, say, a beach ball.
The risk is that failure to agree on a new wave of openness during a period (the past two years) in which the world economy has been growing at its fastest for three decades, with more countries sharing in that growth than ever before, will set a sour political note for what may well be tougher times ahead.
China's economy is growing at 10% a year at a time when the developed world looks set for a period of prolonged lethargy.
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