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The formation of such paramilitary groups was stepped up across Indonesia late last year, ostensibly to stem the rapid spread of violence and rioting.
ECONOMIST: East Timor
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While the quantity of letters sent is falling, the number of parcels being mailed is growing due to the rapid spread of online shopping and sites like eBay.
BBC: How much does Royal Mail make from undelivered parcels?
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The culprit: the rapid spread of the Like button.
FORBES: Facebook Outage Slowed 1000s Of Retail, Content Sites
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The only way to eliminate any risk of cross-infection in the aircraft cabin -- or the rapid worldwide spread of an infectious agent -- is to prevent would-be passengers who are either substantially exposed to or carrying transmissible infections from flying.
CNN: Commentary: Flu and your health on a plane
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Once opened it forwards itself using the personal and business address books of e-mails so the spread is rapid.
BBC: You are in: UK
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As almost every nation on Earth embraced its rapid spread around the globe, the U.S. remained one of the few, resolute outposts of abstention.
CNN: When U.S. postmen and miners humbled England
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Finally, with the rapid growth of social media, your customers now can spread the word about your customer service faster than ever via Facebook, Twitter, and others.
FORBES: Time To Raise The Bar On Customer Service
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Yet its rapid uptake since 1994, when access to the Internet first spread beyond China's elite academic and scientific circles, suggests demand will be huge.
ECONOMIST: China and the Internet
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That indicates a pretty rapid spread, and indeed it appears that nearly all of the people who caught it were unvaccinated.
FORBES: Over 11,000 Californian Kindergartners Missed Vaccinations Last Year
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It was the rapid unrecorded movement of livestock which caused foot-and-mouth disease to spread out of control.
BBC: Foot and mouth rules set to be eased
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The focus now is on minimizing the impact of the virus through the rapid identification of cases and providing patients with appropriate medical care, rather than on stopping its spread internationally.
UNESCO: CONFINTEA VI