• But the biggest divide is neither big-small nor north-south.

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  • Jewelers -- big and small -- have reported strong sales of engagement and wedding rings, in sharp contrast to slumping demand for other luxury items.

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  • We like the Constitution when it can be used to endorse life the way we think it ought to be and we ignore it, or vote against it when the Bill of Rights or the various amendments challenge our world view or force us to make accommodations -- however big or small -- for others.

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  • The sport shares the same big market-small market division of interests that the NBA and NHL do, yet little has flared up in recent years.

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  • But in the world of big-and small-money map theft, it's more like taking candy from a baby--or in this case, a library: Simply walk in, slice 'em out of a book and walk out.

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  • Consumers want a consistent size piece of pork -- not too big or too small --and they want their chops to look the same each time they go to the store.

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  • But the fact is we need to -- we've talked about this within the context of the President's We Can't Wait agenda, which is, he will act on all the things he can -- big, medium and small -- that don't require congressional collaboration -- often because we've had a paucity of congressional cooperation and collaboration.

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  • Is it so hard to picture this migration: Big-box to small-box, to no-box at all?

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  • Some feel they've gained at the overwhelming expense of U.S. industries big and small--a feeling so strong Congress looked into the matter.

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  • On social media, we can share -- as Jim so often did -- big and small parts of our life, without worrying that others are too busy or simply not interested in hearing it.

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  • "Boston is a big small-city, " he said.

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  • That would be big--or small.

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  • Franklin Roosevelt, surely the greatest politician of the 20th Century was someone who recognised that big government was needed - the alternative was not small government but fascism or communism, big government taken to extremes - and his government, first through the 'big' activities to combat mass unemployment and secondly from the biggest of big government activities war, made sure that democracy was preserved.

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  • Check our hands-on video of the small-screened big hitter right after the break.

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  • Then we have a company called Shahmoon TV whose Street Ads use large HD video posters to bring big-screen advertising to small scale stores, enabling businesses to interact with passers-by, feed live information, and communicate directly with those consumers.

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  • And there could be retailing of equity stakes - that is, aimed at the small-scale investor wanting to take a punt on a small-scale company with a big idea.

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  • Massachusetts isn't alone as leaders in several states are also pursuing changes big and small, post-Newtown.

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  • The big-wheel trend is a small one that helps designers give even everyday family cars more aggressive, racier looks.

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  • You come from every conceivable background -- from big cities and small towns, from every race and faith and station.

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  • And the increase in forecast budget surpluses has anyway shifted the debate away from the old big-government-versus-small-government arguments of the 1980s.

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  • Property disputes, stolen girlfriends, stolen boyfriends, stolen sheep, spilled beer -- all issues big and small fall within the bounds of Takanakuy's physical jurisprudence.

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  • It broke the power of a bank oligopoly that had wasted Israel's savings on reckless loans to cronies in big business while starving small- and medium-sized enterprises of credit.

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  • That's largely because many big-time coaches graduated from small colleges that play on lower levels like Arkansas's Bobby Petrino, who went to tiny Carroll (Mont.) College while others wind up at their alma maters, like Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer.

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  • In 2003, federal agents discovered "nearly two pounds of a cyanide compound and other chemicals that could create enough poisonous gas to kill everyone inside a space as large as a big-chain bookstore or a small-town civic center" at the home of Judith Bruey and her husband, William Krar, according to an Associated Press report.

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  • Two years ago Selig engineered new revenue-sharing requirements to help small-city teams compete with big-city teams.

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  • Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown tried to draw out Mr. Lew on one of the Senator's favorite subjects: The fact that too-big-to-fail banks can borrow at lower rates than small banks because of the implied government backing.

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  • Digital video has moved beyond DVDs and cable set-top boxes to big cinema screens, small screens like the new iPod's and over the Web in the form of Internet-downloaded movies and TV shows.

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  • The government plans to eliminate the 10% corporate-tax surcharge and reduce the company-tax rate to 33% for big firms and only 15% for small and medium-sized firms.

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  • But Ford isn't the only one playing big-company antics more common among small-fry marketers.

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  • Mr Lind's attack is more original than Mr Frum's, and he exposes many sins, big and small, of right-wing Texans.

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