Midfielder Frank Lampard said he and his team-mates have been taken aback by the speed of Cech's return.

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With Deltacloud, Red Hat is hoping to return the speed and power of commoditized technology to CIOs and end users.

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For a more dramatic example, consider the following: An investment in Riverbed Technology (RVBD), a developer of software to accelerate application performance and data transmission speeds on WANs, would have generated a 6x return, versus an investment in Clearwire (CLWR), a provider of portable high-speed wireless broadband services, which would have generated a 0.3x return.

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In the aftermath of Asia's crisis, Bank guarantees helped to speed up countries' return to the capital markets.

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Tax professionals were alarmed at the number of taxpayers at their offices hoping to file a second return to speed refunds along.

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If Poland wants to return to the high growth of the mid-1990s, it needs to speed up structural reforms of its labour and product markets.

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To return to the matter of stopping: The Stealth-X designers envision riders controlling their speed by carving like a downhill skier and stopping by kicking the sled sideways in a skilike spray of snow.

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"To return to a 'Bridgnorth ambulance' would in fact be very detrimental to the speed and quality of the service, " the spokesman added.

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