But Chinese manufacturers have expanded faster than the market, and the largest of them now face severe financial difficulties.
In Washington, the reaction has set off a debate over whether it is time to put the brakes on the N.S.A., whose capabilities, Mr. Obama has hinted, have expanded faster than its judgment.
Our datasets have expanded faster than our ability to count them, processing capability has exploded through the use of the cloud and outlets to display data have multiplied to include tablets, phones, and many more platforms.
Q How could the universe have expanded faster than the speed of light after the Big Bang? is a question that has been puzzling Charles Dietz for some time A "Physical laws only limit the speed at which information travels," says Professor Will Percival of the University of Portsmouth.
Therefore, V. vinifera may have lost extensin genes faster than did the other species, or extensins may have expanded faster in the other three species than in V. vinifera.
With thousands dead, towns smashed and 400,000 homeless, the big winner is Isis, which has expanded fast amid the chaos.
In recent years TalkTalk has expanded fast, with its aggressive phone/internet pricing and budget TV alternative to Sky, and now supplies 4m homes.
Santelisa had expanded fast and taken on too much debt, a common mistake in an industry that had the highest levels of investment of any industry in Brazil before the crunch.
The south is also where opium production has expanded fastest, ensnaring peasants in warlordism and corruption.
