But our auto industry is not moving in the right direction fast enough to succeed in a very tough environment.

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Certainly he is too much of a political operator to try and rock the Republican boat by pushing too far or too fast in any direction.

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Bob Carter, Toyota's senior vice president for automotive operations, said he anticipates anticipated demand for small pickups to grow, but how fast will depend on the direction of gas prices and other auto makers also getting into the market.

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"We're going to push them as fast as we can in that direction, " he says.

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One wrong move, one slip, and the direction of our economy could move south, and fast.

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But that's okay: This is the Internet, where things always moved fast, and lots of businesses never bother with things like direction.

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In particular, he must move fast to correct three persistent failings of the company: lack of direction, low transparency and poor shareholder value.

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Not as fast as many would like, but there is movement in the right direction.

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The BRZ, very much by design and very much in the style of the great Mazda MX-5, goes in the other direction, drawing out and exaggerating automotive cues that give the impression of going fast at wholly more sane speeds.

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Fast forward to the present, and modern Austrians seem to have lurched in a more monetarist direction for all the attention they pay to money supply.

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