Its basic problem is catching up with new rivals whose products have become very competitive.
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Now the rest of the world has caught up -- or is catching up.
Manufacturing's share of total Chinese investment (22%) is catching up fast with mining (29%).
The clear leader is El Salvador with the scary number of 57, but Guatemala is catching up.
Partly because of its concentration on chips, Austin discovered software late, but it is catching up quickly.
For the first time, the business of solar energy is catching up to the promise of solar technology.
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Austerity may not have touched the players themselves, but it is catching up with many domestic football clubs.
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Instead, she is catching up on reading a stack of New Yorker magazines.
"It's been a really long season, maybe everything is catching up on us a little, " Strachan told BBC Sport.
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There has certainly been this feeling that Samsung is catching up up, and overtaking Apple in terms of sales.
Black says technology is catching up with hand knitting, and machines can create items that do not have any seams.
The next frontier is catching up with the kind of performance advertisers have come to expect from their desktop campaigns.
Those differentials have since eroded, not because Brcko is doing less well, but because the rest of Bosnia is catching up.
South Korea may lead the world in the business of cyber gaming, but the rest of the world is catching up.
That's still well below the 268 million iPhones Apple has sold in the same period, but Samsung's sales rate is catching up.
But it is catching up, says a financier with experience in both.
Adidas is catching up with Nike in the race to be China's top sportswear company, on the strength of products like high-heeled tennis shoes.
The company's Diovan hypertension drug is catching up to Merck's Cozaar.
One area where the EPL does still reign is in overall revenues, but Seifert, who comes from a marketing business background, believes the Bundesliga is catching up.
In addition, the country's corporate travel spending is catching up with the US, and looks set to surpass it by 2014, according to the US-based Global Business Travel Association.
My view: Apple has not fallen, but maturity is catching up with it in this incarnation, and its ability to defy gravity is diminishing towards the normal reality.
Instant messaging, that rat-a-tat chat technology that is catching up toe-mail in popularity, still hasn't overcome a critical hurdle that e-mail cleared years ago: utter incompatibility among rival brands.
The world is catching up to him, but it's a safe bet that whatever time Faustino has left will be spent staying as far away from civilization as he can manage.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world is catching up.
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While deterrent technology is catching up with these networks, violators switch to one-click host sites, like SockShare or PutLocker, which allow users to stream the media directly from the internet.
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But they also said that China is catching up fast in other areas of civil and military aviation technology, thanks in large part to technology transferred by foreign aerospace companies in Chinese joint ventures.
Plenty of people have pointed out that China produces more science and engineering graduates than the United States does, is catching up in patents, has overtaken America as the home of the auto and so on.
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