One thing would make a difference: whether we can get the growth machine going again.
With the right monetary, fiscal and regulatory tools, the growth machine will eventually whirr into life.
Quickly Dell was a money-making, high growth machine as it rode the growth of PC sales expansion.
Immelt's failing was leverage, the same ingredient Welch used to goose GE from an industrial conglomerate into an earnings-growth machine.
There may be signs that the great Google growth machine is slowing.
The company does have weaknesses and it is not a huge growth machine, but there is certainly something to be said for consistency.
Sure, Apple is the growth machine, creating demand for high-margin electronics.
"We continue to believe that investor anxiety on Monsanto is misplaced as the company is not a cyclical stock but a technology growth machine that should keep rolling in 2009 and beyond, fueled by strong current product demand as well as an unrivaled pipeline, " said Robert Koort, an analyst at Goldman Sachs.
The organisation - which represents the mobile industry - said that the surge in connected devices and the growth of machine-to-machine communications were creating huge demand.
Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
Powerful x-rays a thousand billion times stronger than a hospital x-ray machine can reveal the daily growth rate of teeth.
Germany, which supplied China with the high-precision machine tools needed to support its growth, saw its exports boom.
Some of the industries within manufacturing that have shown the strongest growth over the last 12 months have included machine shops, manufacturers of metalworking machinery, plastics product manufacturing and manufacturers of electrical equipment and components, Sageworks data shows.
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This will expand Verizon's machine-to-machine and telematics capabilities and accelerate revenue growth across key vertical segments of Verizon Enterprise Solutions, including automotive and transportation, energy, health care and manufacturing.
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Thirdly, and this goes back to future growth rates, the stock market is essentially a present value machine.
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By 2016, the worldwide market for machine-to-machine connections is predicted to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 27 percent, and global connections are forecast to reach 365 million.
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