But the deal with Iran and its pell-mell pursuit of Kurdish terrorists into Iraq antagonise Americans and Europeans further.

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That has driven the pell-mell growth of solar installers like SolarCity, SunRun and Sungevity even through the depths of the Great Recession.

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But, though the Chinese onslaught looks fractious and pell-mell, conspiracy theorists smell a state-driven attack on the commanding heights of Australia's economy.

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The company is banking on the pell-mell construction of China's highway system.

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He set to pacifying advertisers, then simplified an organization that had grown pell-mell, skinnying Yahoo from 46 to 6 divisions and shedding some 500 employees.

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The aliens are a pell-mell combination of human features rather like the mythical headless Blemmyes, whose faces, according to Pliny the Elder, were in their chests.

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The Back to the Classics movement was born partly out of a belief in some circles that Taiwan is changing too fast, that the past is being jettisoned in a pell-mell race for economic growth.

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After splitting off from Hewlett-Packard (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) in 1999, Agilent's businesses in electronics and life sciences measurement equipment, plus semiconductors, bulked up at the tail end of the tech bubble, then crashed when the manufacturers that were the mainstay of the measurement gear business cancelled orders pell-mell.

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As it happens, the only way a truly rapid disengagement and redeployment from Iraq can be accomplished would be via a kind of Dunkirk in the desert: a pell-mell rush for the beachhead points of embarkation the object of which would be to extricate as many personnel as possible, probably without regard for their equipment and surely at the expense of their safety.

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