As in any economy, the real limits to growth and adjustment are legal, not physical.

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Risk is moving to real-time in trading limits and some other areas, but overall risk is still mostly end of day batch processing and pulls from multiple sources of data.

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Futures brokers were required to disclose the holders of large positions to regulators in real time, and to strictly observe margin limits.

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The new independent ministers find themselves telling their sovereign parliaments just what are the real limits on sovereign freedom of action in the modern world.

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Also, real estate prices in recent years have zoomed past the limits for FHA-insured loans.

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About half of that sum is expected to be real spending, the rest in the form of raising loan limits on local governments.

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Up to five internet-enabled devices can be connected to the pocket wifi which also tells you exactly how much data you've used in real time, so you'll know if you're getting close to your download limits.

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As a result, in sports where the inherent demands limits its athletes to an infrequent competition schedule, there existed a very real possibility that unless a trip to the U.K. proved particularly fruitful, it could yield more in U.K. tax than it did in winnings.

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Because America has always been a place where good ideas can thrive and dreams can become real -- where innovation is encouraged and the greatest minds in the world are free to push the very limits of science and technology.

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