The OFT said irresponsible lending may have its roots in the way competition works, with lenders competing by emphasising speed and easy access to loans, rather than better interest rates.
Malcolm Turnbull and the Northern Territory chief minister, Adam Giles, are emphasising speed with the proposed royal commission into juvenile detention, signalling a commissioner will be appointed shortly and a report will be produced early next year.
Emphasising speed first and mobility later, 4G networks may be built initially in regions where cable and DSL are unavailable, to capitalise on pent-up demand for broadband, then expanded later to provide blanket coverage for mobile users.4G could thus prove a very disruptive technology indeed.
Both Turnbull and the NT chief minister, Adam Giles, emphasised speed, with a commissioner likely to be appointed shortly and substantive evidence to be heard from September.
But pure rockets, such as the ones that lift the space shuttle, won out because the Space Race between America and Russia emphasised speed over cost, and rockets were proven technology, having already been developed as intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The government contends that Countrywide's lending emphasised speed, volume and profit over quality, that it knew this created problems, and that it never relayed this to Fannie and Freddie.The defence case is that there was no fraud; that Fannie and Freddie were experts in the mortgage market; and that they were never deceived in what they were purchasing.
Stockholm's EA DICE produced a folly of a kind, a game without precedent; a first-person platformer that primarily emphasised speed and elegance, combat avoidance over head-on collisions.
The York Adult Assessment (YAA; Hatcher, Snowling, & Griffiths, 2002) is a dyslexia assessment battery developed for the student population, which emphasises speed of reading and writing, rather than accuracy, and includes tasks that target phonological skills.
It is also worried that payday loan firms are emphasising the speed of the loan over cost and that lenders may be "skimping" on affordability checks.
"The products don't work which is a problem for any brand," says Pettett. "But if Acme were to distract from this by emphasising the speed of their delivery they could still succeed.
He concluded: "May I end by emphasising that speed is of the essence, principally, of course, for humanitarian reasons, but also because of the shadow which may otherwise fall over the UK-Libyan relations – and especially the interests of LBBC Scottish members and indeed others".
