Each of these behemoths have seen rapid growth in new fast-developing countries where each has invested in stores.
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Mr. Hammons rarely built in established markets but instead chose fast-developing areas.
But fast-developing capital markets have taken away most of its corporate clients.
It is not clear how this fast-developing scandal will pan out, but what should become clear is how the French see their first family.
In big cities, especially those in fast-developing countries in Asia and Latin America, gridlocked traffic is responsible for health-threatening levels of local air pollution.
In this fast-developing scandal, it is tempting to rush to judgment.
But Monsanto, backed by the Obama administration and a range of businesses, say protecting intellectual property is more important than ever, especially in fast-developing technological fields.
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But Monsanto, backed by the Obama administration and a range of businesses, says protecting intellectual property is more important than ever, especially in fast-developing technological fields.
Led by Jack Dorsey, who helped set up Twitter, Square has pioneered mobile-payment systems for smartphones, but it has rivals in this fast-developing market, including Google and PayPal.
Another fast-developing market is Internet-related business.
Signor has been active in Texas real estate and energy businesses (depending on the cycle) since the early 1990s, and was working on an industrial park in South Texas when he saw the spartan state of temporary housing that was springing up to house drilling workers in the fast-developing oilfields there.
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Commodity prices are rising, and droughts seem increasingly common in fast-growing developing countries, including China and India.
In the BRICs and other fast-growing developing countries the gap is already narrowing.
Global demand, meanwhile, continues to rise, thanks to an ever-increasing thirst for oil in fast-growing developing countries such as China and India.
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Random House is the leading English language publisher in the US and the UK, while Penguin is the world's most famous publishing brand and has a strong presence in fast-growing developing markets.
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Japan has been developing fast-breeder technology for decades in the hopes of making itself energy independent.
In its latest report, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said that the 100 fast-growing, fast-globalising companies are spread across 17 rapidly developing economies.
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There are some signs of hope: demand is falling in the rich world and slowing in fast-growing parts of the developing world, such as China and the Middle East.
"Esha Khare, 18, of Saratoga, California has received the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award for developing a fast-charging super-capacitor that fits inside a cell phone, charges the battery in under a minute, and holds it for long, " the paper adds.
But many of the problems of fast-growing cities, particularly in developing countries, are those of new poverty.
Postal services are being liberalised around the world and new electronic services such as e-mail are developing fast.
The company has pioneered polling in developing countries with fast-growing mobile networks.
Roeding is also, naturally, well-aware of how fast his startup is developing.
Already players are developing skills tailored to the aggressive, fast-paced multiplayer environment.
Over that period, meat consumption in developing countries rose five-fold, three times as fast as in developed countries.
But she does see in India, as in other fast developing countries, a growing interest in western standards of beauty - driven in part by increasing access to US media via satellite and an ensuing fascination for all things American.
Yum Brands, which owns and franchises the largest number of fast-food restaurants in the world, pursues a strategy of expansion in the developing markets.
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Pfizer, which always kept a presence in developing new germ-killing drugs, saw its Zyvox become a fast-growing drug in recent years.
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She said that developing countries needed to respond by beefing up bank supervision, restricting credit to fast-growing areas, imposing capital requirements that changed with the economic cycle and monitoring their foreign exchange exposures.
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