Moreover, Google can maintain its torrid rate of growth - which it must do to justify so extravagant a stock market valuation - only if it increases traffic on its site.

The Dow Jones industrial average, which had been rising at a torrid rate lately, fell 94.91 points, or 1.11 percent, to 8,444.33.

The gross domestic product, the value of all the goods and services produced in the United States, rose from January through March at a torrid annual rate of 4.8 percent.

The gross domestic product rose from January through March at a torrid annual rate of 4.8 percent.

They include many longtime sellers and Wall Street analysts, long bullish on eBay, who now say they are uncertain about the company's ability to sustain its torrid rate of growth.

India feels a lot like the American market in the early 1980's, when cable television, then unregulated, was growing at a torrid rate.

Real estate prices in the United States, Britain, France and Spain have risen at torrid rates for the last few years, making Germany look like a bargain.

For these reasons, the pace of property sales dropped well below the torrid rate of early 1998.

The economy grew at a torrid annual rate of 7 percent in the fourth quarter of 1993, akin to that of a rapidly developing country with runaway inflation.

NOVASTAR jolted its investors in February when it disclosed that loans made in 2006 were defaulting at a torrid rate.