21.   If so, this recent burst of patenting activity could be a harbinger of technological progress that will accelerate productivity growth and raise living standards.

22.   In fact, the company said it would use the Internet to accelerate growth, despite competition from such powerful cyberspace rivals as Sun Microsystems and Netscape Communications.

23.   In recent months, Quokka has accelerated its growth by acquiring several companies, including Mountainzone.com, which focuses on sports like hiking and climbing, and Golf.com.

24.   International growth is sure to accelerate earnings growth, he said.

25.   Instead, it should help accelerate their growth as they profit at the expense of smaller competition weakened by cuts in future Medicare payments, analysts predict.

26.   Interest rate cuts accelerate economic growth.

27.   Investors have become increasingly worried about accelerating growth and accompanying inflation, and on Thursday, the stock and bond markets tumbled.

28.   It is not clear if tamoxifen accelerates growth of receptor-negative cells.

29.   Louis-Dreyfus says his top priority now is to accelerate growth in the United States by continuing to whittle away at the market shares of Reebok and Fila.

30.   Muoi said that Vietnam should exercise caution in further accelerating economic growth.