The company was fast to post information on its website about the floods, and communicated to investors about the size and scale of the disaster.
Now fast forward to this post-recessionary environment.
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The prohibition was the latest sweeping health initiative proposed by Mr. Bloomberg, who over 11 years as mayor has banned smoking in many public places, outlawed the sale of food with trans fats and required many fast-food joints to post calories.
The example Fleming used in a blog post earlier this year for Fast Company was Amazon.com.
On the other hand, there is surely a connection between the legal reforms carried out in central Europe and the Baltics and their fast growth rates, or between Spain's post-Franco legal opening and its long boom.
But Mr Jackson and the Washington Post should not bet on the fashion changing fast.
Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post and Vox Media are the kind of fast-growing companies careers and reputations are made on.
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Tumblr, founded in 2007, fast built a following by making it easy for people to post blogs and photos, follow other people on Tumblr and receive updates via a feed.
But not so fast says Lisa Belkin, now resident parenting columnist over at the Huffington Post.
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Post Office management and their partners will have to work hard and fast to reclaim market share they surely feel is due them.
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My blog post came about after reading an article in the online edition of Fast Company in which the energy efficiency of LEED certified buildings was being questioned.
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To Fleming's target audience, emerging from both post-war austerity and traditional codes of morality, womanising was just another aspirational activity like driving fast cars and sipping cocktails.
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"The problem is that today's online services turn friendship into fast food -- wrapping everyone in 'friend' paper, " Google executive Vic Gundotra writes in a blog post.
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