That is bad news for countries whose food output was already rising less fast than their populations: according to the World Food Programme, Honduras grew 27% less food per person in 1996 than in 1980.
It's slightly alarming, therefore, to find one of the Scottish government's responses to the CEBR is to cite figures that suggest Scotland's business birthrate has fallen less fast through the early part of the downturn than the UK as a whole.
No one knows less about the fast-growth tech business than the CFO.
The addition to the coalition's armoury this week of American A-10 Thunderbolts and AC-130 gunships, lumbering aircraft equipped with fearsome cannon that can hit targets in built-up areas with less risk than fast jets of killing civilians, could tilt the balance in Misrata and elsewhere.
Six researchers from the Tokyo Institute of Technology are now aiming the terahertz-level frequencies at a less organic target: fast wireless.
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Annual growth has been 2% in the past five years, less than half that of fast food in general.
And fast: in less than 3 seconds Watson can sift through the equivalent of about 200 million pages, evaluate the information, and provide precise responses.
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Fast-forward less than two years and Promoted Tweets, along with equivalents from Facebook and other social networks, are now officially among the fastest growing sectors of online advertising.
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They crush or press juice out of produce in a few minutes, leaving less waste behind than a fast juicer does, and they typically do a better job with tricky ingredients like wheat grass, nuts and leafy greens.
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Today- they are less than a year into the fast growing web project called Makers Row.
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The notebook also consumes 20% less power, ensuring twice as fast 3D gaming and media experiences.
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Its database server, Exadata X3, will be super-fast and gobble up less power.
Fast ignition also takes less powerful lasers, because the reaction rides on the energy contained in the pellet after the first pulse.
As Holdren and Beddington note, the solar maximum, and increased possibility of a great geomagnetic storm, is fast approaching, now less than a year away.
And it wanted the first issue fast--in less than two months.
During such times, he says, Americans are more prone to travel closer to home, stay at less expensive hotels, eat at fast-food restaurants rather than fancier dine-in restaurants and plan more online trips looking for the best deals.
No, that's not nearly as fast as a keyboard--it took less than 40 seconds to type the passage in--but it was more than twice as fast as smART writer.
Because technology lets fishermen fish with less effort, it disguises just how fast the stocks are depleting.
Fast forward to today, less than nine months later, another Chicago-based firm, Peregrine Financial Group (PFGBest), is facing similar allegations.
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Then again, the improved fast travel makes this somewhat less important.
For example, categories like fast food or beer rely less on strong affiliation among their users but can still tap into social currency by helping others to learn from each other (beer) or by strengthening the identification level with other patrons (fast food).
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What this suggests is a natural division of labour: a trouser maker could assemble average-sized khakis in volume in Mexico, but make special sizes such as narrow waists or long inseams in the United States, offering fast turnaround for retailers and less risk of overstocking.
America finally has an opportunity to become less dependent on foreign sources for what is fast becoming a strategic resource.
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Emerging economies face a paradox: they need solid banks to help them grow fast, but fast growth will make their banks less safe.
This is despite people in rural Wales being less likely to have access to super-fast broadband connections, a 3G phone signal and a choice of suppliers.
Fast forward to today and in less than three months radically different words are being spoken at FHA overseer, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
"We know that the Williams FW26 is very fast on a single lap, but less so on long distance runs, " he added.
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Proponents of 802.20 retort that it will require less spectrum than WiMax, and will work in fast-moving cars and trains, which WiMax will not.
This incredibly fast growing company which, in its less than five-year history, has been long on sales but short on profitability, is perfectly poised to turn things around in 2013.
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