Over the past decade technology-driven sectors have experienced an intensified pace in merger and acquisition activities: several concerns almost simultaneously started aggressive expansions into other business sectors trying to acquire companies outside of their "traditional" markets [3, 4, 5].
Bannert and Tschirky stated that an intensified pace of technological change together with growing technological complexity and short product life cycles force companies to shorten their planning horizons to mid-term legislative periods, and source technologies externally (which explains the tactics of sourcing companies rather than raising them inside a company) [37].
The kingdom plans to maintain its intensified pace of bombing runs in coming days, the general said, though some experts have questioned how long Jordan's relatively small fleet of fighters can maintain the pace.
Nations like Brazil and India are taking ever wider steps to make sure that they are not left behind in the new space race, intensifying the pace of exploration by the developing world.
The election of President Bush and the events of 9/11 intensified the pace of change in America.
Mr. Green and Mr. Bloomberg have visited the Bronx repeatedly during the campaign, and in the past three weeks both have intensified the pace of the visits.
Commissioner Roger Goodell and the union's executive director, DeMaurice Smith, met in New York on Monday and mapped out the meetings to intensify the pace of negotiations toward a new collective bargaining agreement.
But when ideological conflict in South Korea intensified, keeping pace with intensification of global Cold War, he announced that "reds should be arrested and killed without any consideration" He preferred to mobilize or exploit those Japanese collaborators in order to stabilize his power base in order to subdue power of the communists.
Zhou sought to intensify the pace of market-orientated reforms in the company, and was a strong advocate of international expansion even before China's official "go out" strategy became the norm for Chinese corporations.
Rio's car fleet grew 56 percent in the last decade, but road building and public transportation improvements failed to keep pace, intensifying traffic jams.
