The U.S. solar market continued its record-setting pace in the second quarter, but amid the boom are signs of a slow down in the break-neck growth of recent years, according to a report released Monday.

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According to the report, other luxury brand names are considering putting the breaks on their break-neck expansion of the last several years.

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On the strength of groundbreaking technology from the mind of its late, relentlessly creative CEO, Steve Jobs, Apple grew revenue at the break-neck average annual rate of 48% over the past five years.

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The castigating rhetoric of hedge fund managers emanating from both Sohn and SALT, whose tongues loll out of their mouths from their break-neck pursuit of the runaway benchmark indexes, has not been lost on the FOMC.

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But it was Wigan who took the game by the scruff of the neck before the break, penning their hosts back in their half and maintaining the pressure without managing to fashion a real opening.

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Perhaps most importantly, it gives the government the chance to try to break out of the awful run of bad news that has hung around its neck since the economy fell into recession and the Budget collapsed into omnishambles.

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One is feeling the hot breath of the media on the back of my neck and the other is sensing the cold disapproval of the church hierarchy for daring to break ranks.

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After a somewhat fractious start in which several of the fillies appeared to become unsettled by the atmosphere on course, an early break-neck pace was set by David Simcock's Miss You Too, who appeared to taking a keen hold with jockey Ian Mongan.

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