Now that we are in a rapid growth period, I can really see what Tony Hsieh meant.
If you look at the most rapid period of growth in U.S. history, around the turn of the twentieth century, living standards grew perhaps 2 or 2.5 percent.
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They will often launch a period of rapid growth in these small business partners.
The aim, says Rodrigo Kede of IBM Brasil, is to manage the conglomerate's computing needs during a period of rapid growth, and to improve efficiency.
He has led the company through a period of rapid growth since then, with the success of its DS and Wii game machines helping the home of Super Mario win a broad customer base most crucially, winning over people who previously had little interest in videogames.
The approximate stand-still of global temperature during 1940-1975 is generally attributed to an approximate balance of aerosol cooling and greenhouse gas warming during a period of rapid growth of fossil fuel use with little control on particulate air pollution, but quantitative interpretation has been impossible because of the absence of adequate aerosol measurements.
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Mr Oudea rejects the idea of a systemic failure, arguing that the loss was a product of a particular time and place: a period of rapid growth in equity derivatives, which overstretched the bank's capacity to monitor itself, and a peripheral trading desk where people were less jumpy about the risk of fraud.
America needs a sustained period of rapid economic growth to create the 25 million good, full-time jobs required to get the nation to true full employment.
In other words, a decade of rapid economic growth and an unusually prolonged period of political stability in China have not caused the country to change its generally passive approach to international affairs.
The glaciers in the south-eastern part of the plateau, by contrast, are downwind of the Indian subcontinent and Dr Xu found that the concentration of soot in those glaciers went up by 30% between 1990 and 2003, coinciding with a period of rapid industrial growth in India.
However, analysis shows that more rapid economic growth in the post-reform period has actually led to deterioration in income distribution.
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First Call, a research firm, reports that analysts' average forecasts for the first quarter of 1999 are of earnings up by 14.4% over the same period in 1998, and of even more rapid growth for the second quarter.
As shown in the first chart below, there are only a couple of times when housing contributes 1-2 percentage points to growth, the most notable being the post-war period of rapid household formation by returning war veterans.
Tax rates did not go up at all during that time the rapid increase in revenue occurred because we were in a sustained period of strong economic growth.
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