At the current pace of economic growth, oil demand is rising about as fast as supply, meaning that prices are roughly stable.
Even though KMart had pioneered discount retailing, it could not compete with the fast growing, supply chain innovating Wal-Mart.
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The same children who worked the fields now attend college, work in high-tech maquiladoras, or serve the needs of the fast-growing supply, retail and tourist industries.
Eden Valley initiatives include a campaign to get people to buy locally, moves to supply fast broadband services to rural areas and a hydro-power scheme for the River Eden.
This would be a logical next step: border bureaucracy and endemic crime make it horribly difficult for any Russian firm to maintain fast and reliable supply lines of components from abroad.
M2 velocity is a measure of how fast broadly defined money supply turns over each year.
At the moment tax rates are low, and Fed Chief Benjamin Bernanke is not debauching the money supply as fast as his predecessors did in the 1970s.
To the extent that they are shrinking their balance-sheets, they are reducing the money supply as fast as the central banks are expanding it.
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With new competition on the way from Abbott Laboratories (nyse: ABT - news - people ), Amgen needs to work out its supply problems fast.
As part of the system, we have a display in the kitchen that tells us how much electricity we are using and how fast nature is replenishing our supply.
The chief one: that U.S. demand for natural gas was fast eclipsing the ability of producers to supply it.
The metropolis has grown so big and fast that the once-adequate public water supply now serves less than half of the population.
Existing cancer-drug therapies kill fast-growing cells, disrupt crucial molecular signals or attack tumor supply lines.
Without software, the world's supply of hard assets and brains can't combine fast enough to produce wealth that outpaces population growth.
The supply of Treasury bills, notes and bonds is already dropping fast.
But these supply increases are probably temporary: once employment growth stabilises, fast job growth would mean bringing the unemployment rate down further, which increases pressure on wages.
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To compound the issue, in addition to plentiful supply of consumers with low esteem and a perceived sense of powerlessness, fast food chains and even fast casual restaurants such as Applebees, and Texas Roadhouse continue to feature numerous options to upgrade or increase the size their already too large regular food and drink portions.
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Fast food restaurants are getting by with the absolute minimum amount of labor they need to supply their products.
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There is no hard-and-fast decision rule or trigger mechanism to which he or she must adhere in deciding whether supply conditions in the oil market justify an intervention.
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Indeed, until supply comes more into line with demand, steelmakers will continue to ship the metal as fast as they can.
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