The world in the last six months--I don't remember any time, maybe even the Great Depression, when things went down quite so fast, quite so uniformly around the world.

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Plus, the bartender went really fast, so it was hard to follow him.

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Because the price break happened so fast and went so far, there are few price points in between for traders to use as guideposts.

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Look back at Britain's industrial history with today's obsession with the Internet in mind, and you start to grasp at what may be the truest answer of all: that what went wrong with British manufacturing industry was not that it declined so fast, but that so much effort went into arresting that decline.

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With change happening so fast, the argument went, why be prepared when nobody knew what to be prepared for.

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An amnesty, he argued, would help to encourage companies to come forward and discuss what went wrong - so that others could learn, fast.

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It killed entire brands, Pontiac included, and axed high-performance cars like the G8, a full-size, V8-powered sedan very similar to the new Chevy SS. It even went so far as to completely disband its long-standing High Performance Vehicle Operations unit, which had developed such fast, gas-guzzling cars as the Cadillac CTS-V and Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1.

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