The goal is to buy into emerging companies that are poised for runaway growth because of promising business plans or technology.

The aim is to guard against runaway growth, which some experts fear could lead to a breakdown in financial controls.

A flood of technology money in the last decade or so added to runaway growth that threatened the city's famous livability.

But even Nike's latest results disappointed investors accustomed to runaway growth.

She concedes that runaway growth has spawned some "unfortunate" strip development.

On the other hand, the North will increasingly be appalled with the South's runaway growth.

Whether the new guidelines that took effect Jan. 8 will ultimately answer concerns about runaway growth remains to be seen.

There have been a couple of such periods of runaway growth in the past, and each time it has presaged trouble.

Denver, now nearly 500 square miles, is trying to reign in some of its runaway growth.

After reveling in runaway growth for most of the decade, Atlanta is contemplating something quite different: an economic slowdown.