Insurance companies are fast to respond to disasters and easily move adjusters in from other areas.

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The authority's standard river launches are not fast enough to respond to emergency calls from the coastguard.

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We track how fast sales reps respond, and how many call attempts they make before giving up.

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And that's exactly why it's so important for us to respond big and respond fast as local information starts coming in.

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But experts fear the government will be unable to respond fast enough.

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He also uses his iPhone (AAPL) to ask FaceBook (FB) friends if anyone has been there and two respond fast with thumbs up.

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Visiting the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) in Washington on Sunday, Mr Obama vowed his government would "respond big and respond fast" after Sandy had passed.

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Can they respond fast enough?

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But the biggest winners will be companies that can combine the advantages of scale with the agility to respond to fast-changing market conditions.

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Now she must respond to fast-moving events on the doorstep.

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Not so fast, the MBAs respond.

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"The Chinese economy is growing very fast and we need to respond with a different management system, " says Liu.

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These retailers know that they need to respond to these fast-changing preferences, as was noted in a recent USA TODAY article about back-to-school fashion trends.

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CEOs want to be able to respond to customers as fast as possible, especially in financial services, he added, where the essence of the business is made up of computer systems.

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Under the FA's new fast-track procedures, Holloway has until Friday to respond to the charge.

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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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