• Google by comparison, has long grown past the point where online properties tend to fade away.

    FORBES: Amazon Created the Online Commerce Genre But Amazon Won't Create the Mobile Commerce Genre

  • In recent years the technique to create these diamonds has grown to the point where it can produce gem-quality products.

    FORBES: Lab-Grown Diamond Brand Taps Young, 'Rebellious' Crowd

  • And then in 10 to 15 years, that will have grown to the point where maybe we can expect to see four orbital flights, entirely privately funded with vehicles that are entirely privately designed.

    CNN: Next challenge for space industry

  • If your company has grown to the point of a large Series A or B round, you should seriously ask yourself who the best person to run the company is because your VC certainly will.

    FORBES: Start A Company When You're 25 -- Not When You're 52

  • By 1999, the practice had grown to the point that Arizona, Colorado, Maine, Nebraska, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Virginia kept between five and eight per cent of their prison population in isolation, and, by 2003, New York had joined them as well.

    NEWYORKER: Hellhole

  • Noting that average employment per firm seems to have been trending up and that the largest 50 firms increased their asset size as a share of GDP from 70 percent to nearly 130 percent since 1996, The Economist speculates that more firms may have grown beyond a point where scale economies were beneficial.

    FORBES: Why The Next 4 Years Could Be Small Business Hell

  • What would the Indian GDP have been in 2011, in 2000 constant US dollars, if it had grown one less percentage point each year?

    FORBES: Two Technologies Propelling India Forward

  • Yet, when the grown-ups must point out that such a purchase would neither be practical nor in the best interest of the family and cast their votes for a new, American made family minivan, it is left to the two year old to break the tie.

    FORBES: It Sucks To Be John Boehner

  • Sovereign debt has grown drastically, to the point that even maintaining it is becoming unsustainable.

    FORBES: Wednesday's Eurozone Meeting Is Crunch Time

  • As a result, his company Check Point now has grown to boast nearly 3, 000 staff and accounts for one third of the global security software market, with its security software used by every Fortune 100 company.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • But his main point was that Europe had grown used to a free ride on American defence spending (which, as a share of GDP, is about three times the European NATO average).

    ECONOMIST: The future of the transatlantic alliance

  • Turkey and Brazil resuscitated the deal in the spring of 2010, but by then Iran's stockpile had grown and Mr Obama was on the point of guiding a new, hard-won sanctions resolution through the Security Council.

    ECONOMIST: Lexington

  • And even though, more to the point, Seung Yong was a grown man.

    CNN: His parents said, 'Not with a white girl'

  • The margins for pharmacy benefit managers, third-party administrators of prescription drug programs, have grown so high that they pose an attractive entry point for health care companies to go into the market.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Or is he -- has the space between them grown or shrunk, or is he behind at this point?

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The simple point that Afghan army and police recruitment has grown hugely must also be a factor in the increased attacks.

    ECONOMIST: The war in Afghanistan

  • We are at a point in our culture when we actually have to pull for grown-up movies, when we must try to encourage them and laud them when they come by.

    WSJ: Peggy Noonan: Jobs, Thatcher and the Force of Life

  • When people ask me why it is that I write about video games for Forbes, a business publication, I always point them to a series of statistics showing how the industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the past decade or more.

    FORBES: US Game Sales Down 25% from Last Year, but Why?

  • Just about everyone in my hometown of Rochester Hills knew Madonna had grown up there, but I would guess there weren't too many who could point out which house had been hers.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • When I started in fashion, one of the hot London labels was Clements Ribeiro - which still is one of the hot London labels, especially as a point of difference is that the designers, Suzanne Clements and Inacio Ribeiro, have grown up wise and now do a great, affordable range for Evans, aimed at the plus-sized woman.

    FORBES: A Fashionable, Fabulous And Fat Top Ten

  • From an initial insubstantial trickle it has grown to a world-class waterway, and as it spreads to 29km wide between Whitstable and Foulness Point, the Thames is heavy, not only with water, but millennia of history.

    BBC: Following the Thames: A source-to-mouth guide

  • As a case in point, the company I helped save from closure in 2004 and now lead ( Fishbowl ) has grown from 6 to 100 employees in the past 8 years, and our turnover is negligible (under 2%).

    FORBES: 10 Reasons To Stay At A Job For 10 Or More Years

  • They point to cities such as Charlotte in North Carolina and Salt Lake City in Utah: places that have grown as fast as Houston and Dallas and yet have managed to improve their air.

    ECONOMIST: The Lone Smog State

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