The markets gave the growth data a muted response, with the main UK share index, the FTSE 100, ending the day up just 0.3 points.
Deloitte is adding to its workforce of 45, 000 in response to growth across areas such as financial services, heath care and life sciences and technology.
Yet both will fall back to earth in 2013 as unit growth decelerates, margins come under pressure in response to intensifying competition, and earnings growth drops into the low single digits.
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Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg laid the blame for Facebook's tardy response to the growth of mobile at the feet of HTML5.
The bureaucracy of health care "risk management" was born in the 1970s and '80s, ostensibly in response to the growth of medical malpractice litigation.
Some of the largest tech companies--Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Dell--are at some stage of rethinking the structure and focus of their businesses in response to lackluster growth.
One answer, which she gave to me in her press conference, is that the government has already loosened policy, in some respects, in response to slower growth.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
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However, the stock price fell so precipitously (by about two thirds) in response to lowered growth guidance after the Q1 2012 conference call that I believe further guidance cuts were already priced in.
Gene hunters have long focused on a mere 1.5% of the human genome, an estimated 25, 000 genes that code for proteins and thereby control the immune response, organ growth and brain activity, among other things.
Google's new social media platform for information sharing, Google Buzz, is clearly a response to the runaway growth of social media sites like Twitter and Facebook.
But the ECB faces a difficult decision as economic growth is slowing across Europe in response to the US economic downturn and the global squeeze in credit markets.
Nomura Securities said Friday that they are expecting the Federal Open Market Committee of the bank to ask for further stimulus (as in more QE) in response to fading economic growth and greater downside risks.
HP's efforts as a long-term strategic response to saturation and slower growth in the company's traditional markets.
And Mr Silvani's task has become even more necessary as Argentina awaits a slowdown in growth brought on by the Brazilian tightening in response to turmoil in Asia.
Some had expected a larger cut, in response to growing anxiety in Europe over growth and unemployment.
One theory is that both shares and oil have been rising in response to common factors: buoyant economic growth and profits, and low interest rates.
It has not forgotten the mistake it made in 1987 when, despite rapid money-supply growth, it cut interest rates in an overzealous response to the crash on Wall Street.
In short, the focus of Los Cabos will be supporting growth and ensuring our European partners are escalating their response to reinforce financial stability, recognizing the stakes are high for all of us.
Policy makers adopted a response to this that in retrospect undermined the growth of consumption.
"The exchange rate is not a policy target, but it is important for growth and price stability, " Mr Draghi said in response to a question.
The best analogy to the current package was the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, a response to the recession that began that March.
"We applaud this purging of assets as an attempt to cuts its losses and focus on stabilizing its platform and righting the franchise toward growth, " said Meredith Whitney of Oppenheimer, in response to Merrill's CDO moves.
These products received good customer response, resulting in 4% comparable store sales growth in November.
Now, the religious response to such a thought may be that financial growth is a form of greed, and is unnecessary.
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This year, global challenges will again dominate the agenda with growth, support for the G20 agenda and building a risk response network at the head of affairs.
The Antitrust Division is a perfect example, having experienced exponential growth in the amount of discovery and information that it receives in response to Second Requests.
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The Socialist candidate explained how he would seek to expand Europe's response to the euro sovereign-debt crisis to incorporate more growth-driven policies.
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China's oil-hungry growth continues apace (the country lifted interest rates slightly on Thursday, in response) and America's demand continues unabated.
Comverge Chairman, President and CEO Robert Chiste sees much growth--and much venture capital investment--in the related demand response and smart grid industries.
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