During the invasion of Iraq in 2003, America's marines often found themselves outrunning their fuel supplies.

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Outrunning Amazon, Facebook and Google is not an easy task, so what position should they take?

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Nimble appears to be outrunning its competitors and if it can keep adding customers while staying close to breakeven, its investors will become even richer.

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Apple is in a class by itself, and its woes are not so much based on market position as they are on the problem of outrunning ever-advancing expectations.

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But this time he may have trouble outrunning it.

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Turning onto the dark main road, he sped up, outrunning the weak headlight, obstacles appearing faster than he could react, feeling as if he were racing forward in the flame of a moving lantern.

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Here, demand is wildly outrunning supply.

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