Industrial production in most countries is going down faster than in the United States--and it's been going down very fast in the United States in recent months, down 10% or more.
Public housing is being torn down faster than new units of affordable housing can be built.
Perhaps the way to go faster is to slow down and shift the focal point from the conversion to the conversation.
The simultaneous voice and data offered by UMTS is pretty cool, but what we really care about is pulling down bits just a little faster than what EDGE has to offer.
Residual air molecules more than 200km above the planet will generate drag on the probe and pull it down faster and faster - although it could be some weeks yet before there is an impact.
This is caused by faster assistants slowing down to the speed of the average - so as not to embarrass their slower colleagues - while the "slow ones, stay slow", which has an overall effect of dragging down the speed.
But they boil down to this: in order to deliver pages faster, Google is going to make it possible for the browser to resolve Web site addresses like www.google.com into IP addresses like 216.239.51.99 that machines on the Internet can read.
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So they're having more memory, the access time is becoming a lot faster, and the prices are coming down.
This is one of the reasons that the M3 is actually dropping, people are paying down and off loans at rates faster than they are taking them out.
Each iPhone is typically faster than its predecessor, and phones tend to slow down over time.
The cut is more than meets the eye though, as the lower top-line forecast is largely the result of success in cutting down the size of GE Capital faster than anticipated.
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He notes that both IDC and Gartner are expecting about 6%-7% IT spending growth this year, which is down from 10%-11% growth last year, but still faster than any other broad industry sector.
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Today the increment of time for market change is now faster than the increment of time for moving information up and down a chain of command.
Perhaps most importantly, intense pressure from heavily subsidized Chinese manufacturers is driving a surprisingly competitive solar market, forcing Solyndra to get costs down faster than the start-up firm could achieve.
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For example, we were just talking about some of these trucks -- there is still work to be done to make the fueling faster, to bring down the price.
It is 2, 500 times faster than flash, yet it never seems to break down.
It is in the process of shutting down its inkjet printer operations in order to concentrate on the faster growing laser printer and multi-function device markets.
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Now that our code is moving faster than perception we have to ask ourselves to consider when to slow things down.
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In reality, all it boils down to is Fed purchases of securities to expand bank lending and investing and get the money supply growing faster.
This, Dr Levoy explains, is mainly down to the processing power of devices, such as camera-equipped smartphones, growing faster than the capacity of sensors which record light data.
The trick is that our business has to grow faster than the cost of insurance, and our job is to keep that rate down against the backdrop of what people are insuring.
Down the road, Canada remains important to GM as a potential source of bond investors because its economy is growing faster than the U.S., and its dollar is strong.
"While the broad picture emerging from the data is that Africa's economies have been expanding robustly and that poverty is coming down, the aggregate hides a great deal of diversity in performance, even among Africa's faster growers, " said Shanta Devarajan, the World Bank's chief economist for Africa.
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