One reason structured notes are being issued at a rapid pace is the rise in interest rates in the past several years.

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While International expansion has grown at a faster pace in the last few years, Ebeltoft Group notes that retailers tend to penetrate similar markets when expanding internationally.

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And although DirecTV is technically the leading U.S. satellite provider, Merrill Lynch analyst Vijay Jayant notes that EchoStar is now growing at a faster pace, having added 1.35 million subscribers in 2002 while DirecTV was adding 850, 000.

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As his funding has fallen in the last couple of years, the institute has accordingly spent less on climate: "We are extinguishing primarily global warming projects in pace with declines in his giving", one of the documents notes.

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Having no euro notes in the till, Mr Weijs feared that at this pace the shop might run out coins fast.

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On the stock buyback, he notes that DirecTV has been buying back stock at an accelerated pace and will likely continue to do so in 2012, but that the pace is likely to slow meaningfully in 2013.

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Australian outfit No Anchor understand how to make sinister noise-rock that sounds great: Their 2011 album, Real Pain Supernova, includes slabs of distorted bass notes that rumble and quake, sludgy riffs played at a crawling pace, shrieks of feedback that shoot skyward, and harrowing vocals punctuated with shrill wailing.

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He notes that cases before the Nigerian courts are moving at a snail's pace and few of the plaintiffs have any faith in the local justice system.

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