Innovative techniques are therefore basically efforts to tweak one of the coefficients in the equation governing speed, height, or distance in a sport.

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But in the 1990s Gilder became convinced that the speed of light would be the final unpassable barrier governing the pace of all digital technology.

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Fifa, football's world governing body, has agreed changes with the Brazilian government to speed up preparations for the 2014 World Cup.

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Lou Anne Brossman, marketing director for Juniper's U.S. public sector business, claims her company has taken a lead in getting the government up to speed on hot-button topics like Internet Protocol Version Six, or upgrading networks to the next generation of specifications governing how to send data over the Internet.

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