"While the ice is disappearing faster than the computer models indicate, both observations and the models point in the same direction: the Arctic is losing ice at an increasingly rapid pace and the impact of greenhouse gases is growing, " said co-author Marika Holland of NCAR.
He notes that smaller players like telecom-equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co. are growing, albeit at a small scale.
People familiar with the matter point to strategic reasons for the shift: risk diversification after Foxconn's manufacturing glitches last year with the iPhone 5 that resulted in scratches on the metal casings, and Apple's decision to expand its product lines amid growing competition from Samsung Electronics Co.
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Apple's shares have risen to more than 10 times the price they were back then, though it has dramatically ebbed following growing concerns about competition from Samsung Electronics Co.
Another major milestone for the industry has been a growing interest and investment from entrepreneurs like Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who financed the development of SpaceShipOne, winner of the Ansari X Prize, and British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of the space tourism company, Virgin Galactic.
Segel, 32, who says he obsessively watched those three original Muppet films while growing up in Southern California, lobbied hard to co-write and star in the new Muppet film.
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Sahil Lavingia was a freshman at the University of Southern California in 2010 when he got an email from Ben Silbermann, chief executive and co-founder of the fast-growing online scrapbook Pinterest.
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The co-operative is part of a growing urban agricultural movement in London, where demand for allotments -- plots of land that individuals can rent to grow fruit and vegetables -- far outstrips supply.
On Wednesday, the same day the Journal released its story on the death of the cupcake, the New York Times published a trend piece on the rise of cold-pressed juice, an industry growing in much the same way as Crumbs and co. did five years ago.
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In a growing trend in Spain, the solar park is a co-operative, with 750 individual owners.
Such a move would underline both a growing anxiety over Iranian intentions and the ineffectiveness of the Gulf Co-opertaion Council's own Peninsula Shield Force which was established in 1984.
If completed, the deal will mark the end of a high-profile association that has been marred by growing differences between the Bakrie family and Nathaniel Rothschild, the co-founder of Bumi.
For now these members must buy their gear through the co-op's catalogs or on its rapidly growing Web site (www.rei.com ).
Toyota's chairman, Hiroshi Okuda, had previously expressed his willingness to co-operate with US companies, amid concern over growing trade tensions between the US and Japan.
This is the latest in a fast growing group of cool, modern, vibrant, relatively small stores co- branded JCP and Joe Fresh, the successful Canadian retailer.
The message from Zaslavsky and co is that the Internet of Things is coming of age and growing at an exponential rate.
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If it decides not to, the country which has led Europe in designing and implementing criminal-justice policies risks losing not only rapid co-operation and information but also influence over a fast-growing body of EU law.
Houston is the fastest-growing and most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the country, says Stephen Klineberg, co-director of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
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Packaging has been a low-margin business ever since Bemis Brothers Bag Co. got its start 140 years ago, and it's growing at a measly 5% now.
Despite increased co-operation with the police and temporary bans on offenders, pickpocketing remains a growing problem for the museum, staff said.
Jane Lewis, learning co-ordinator on the allotment project at Duffryn Community Link emphasised the importance of children growing their own food.
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"We've had growing support over the last 10 days, " says Udall, noting the proposal's 150 co-sponsors and support from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
"We have a market that for sure is going to continue growing at a much faster pace than the rest of the country, " says Jorge Ramos, co-anchor of Univision's flagship news program and author of the forthcoming The Other Face of America.
"Today's announcements build on Intel's growing device portfolio across a range of mobile market segments, " said Hermann Eul, Intel vice president and co-general manager of the Mobile and Communications Group.
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More than 100 new jobs have come from the co-op, many of which have been taken up by the Latinos who now form a growing part of the local population.
Square, the fast-growing company that allows merchants to complete customer transactions over a mobile device, grew out of a conversation between future co-founders Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey.
Mr Abhisit has faced a difficult dilemma over Mr Bout's case, says the BBC's Vaudine England in Bangkok - whether to co-operate with long-standing ally the United States or to appease Russia, which has a growing tourist and business presence in Thailand.
The Administration's inability to argue more effectively that the stakes preclude both of these options seems to have reflected yet another error: the growing influence in its ranks of those like former Secretary of State James Baker and the bipartisan Iraq Study Group he co-chairs with former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
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