Agencies will be under pressure to react faster and issuers will be hit harder if they are downgraded.

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It is thus able to fine-tune them, for instance to keep power consumption low or make touch screens react faster.

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Markets react faster than central banks.

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By strategically managing data as a shared enterprise asset, companies can react to emerging trends faster than their competition.

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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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There is no manager, leader or management team that can predict, plan and execute as well as a team that has its ears close to the market, and the flexibility to react quickly, willing to make mistakes (and learn from them even faster) without bias for a predetermined plan.

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