In an October 9 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Jack Welch defended his tweet, indicating that the economy would need to be growing at breakneck speed for unemployment to drop from 8.3% to 7.8% over two months.

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It wants to add electricity-generating capacity, lest China's breakneck growth be impeded.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

And all those high-speed lines in China might now be laid at a slightly less breakneck pace.

ECONOMIST: High-speed trains might be forced to go a little more slowly

China's capital may be racing towards the future at breakneck speed but sneak behind one of the city's glittering, ultra-modern tower blocks and you find a slice of old Beijing that seems to have been lost in time.

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The second part of this doubled-edged attack on platform fragmentation comes from a simple reality: we're hearing that Google may be nearing the end of its breakneck development pace on Android's core and shifting attention to apps and features.

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And they are doing so at a time of economic uncertainty: a depressed stockmarket and indications that Malaysia's breakneck pace of industrialisation may not be sustainable.

ECONOMIST: Malaysia

Instead of slowing down from this breakneck pace, this week Santander appears to be hitting its stride.

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