As both a payments platform and a nonpolitical unit of account, Bitcoin has already seen astonishing growth in just over three years.

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The challenge for China's domestic manufacturers is clear: Capture a substantial piece of the market for new phones that will accompany that astonishing growth.

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Apple may already be the largest U.S.-listed company by market cap, but it is continues to produce astonishing growth, particularly in China, where the opportunities for the company remain vast.

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The public sector expanded only in the 1950s, after a century of astonishing economic growth driven by free trade and free markets (from 1850 to 1950, average incomes multiplied eightfold, as a poor peasant society was transformed into one of the world's richest countries).

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And throughout this turmoil China had succeeded in combining an astonishing rate of growth with social stability.

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Their growth is astonishing, with millions tuning in to huge tournaments, but even tens of thousands watching individual players simply play a popular title.

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Weaker than expected iPhone sales grabbed headlines Tuesday, but iPad sales growth was simply astonishing.

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It has a population of about 65m and the mainland part of it has enjoyed an astonishing average annual rate of economic growth of around 17% for the past quarter-century.

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While the rest of the country, over the same twenty-year period, saw the growth in incarceration that led to our current astonishing numbers, New York, despite the Rockefeller drug laws, saw a marked decrease in its number of inmates.

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Growth rates will almost certainly moderate after the second quarter's astonishing bounce.

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