Having a single-person business is exciting and challenging, no matter what the economy does.
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Demand is also coming from abroad, with an influx of foreign buyers looking for single-person pads.
Meanwhile, immigration and rising numbers of single-person households have driven demand for rented accommodation.
It excludes single-person households, which are rapidly growing in number, and is often changed.
Councillor Fiona Ferguson said she was unhappy about the monitoring of phone calls to claimants of single-person's 25% council tax relief.
It is a period of smaller families, rising income, rising life expectancy and big social change, including divorce, postponed marriage and single-person households.
By the end of the next decade, the number of single-person households in the United States will almost equal those with kids, Leinberger said.
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When the center opened in 1999, the first customer was a single-person startup, LAD Industries, which wanted to improve abdominal and lower-back training on workout machines.
More single-person households and more married women at work means that fewer households are able to give a dog the walks and other attention it needs.
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The single-person aircraft came from Switzerland and has made history as a solar-powered plane that could fly overnight, thanks to batteries that are charged up during the day.
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Because of this line of reasoning, managers or technical leads sometimes over-correct and attempt to maximize efficiency by staffing single-person projects to reduce the communication overhead down to zero.
The economic toll has been exacerbated by a lack of potential for continuity: 70% of single-person businesses reported having no one in place to take over in the event of illness.
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James Cameron, the director of "Avatar, " and Richard Branson, with Virgin Oceanic, are each planning to head for the deepest seas of the western Pacific with single-person subs that travel hundreds of feet a minute.
The IRS requested and reviewed a list of all our members prior to granting the exemption, and it also devoted a single part-time staff person to manage all the incoming news applications, most of which apparently received heightened scrutiny.
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Lord Jenkin, who served in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet as Patrick Jenkin, wanted to change the new legislation to give local authorities the discretion to lower the 25% Council Tax discount for single person households - but his amendment was rejected.
One is a migration from contracts calling for arbitration by three-person panels to that by a single arbitrator - which can be a cost-saving move because it entails paying only one arbitrator.
But I'm just going to keep on -- just going to keep on keeping on -- (applause) -- until every single person out there who needs to vote is going to go vote. (Applause.) Because the stakes are just so high, Florida.
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As a young woman, I had a vision that I would single-handedly change the world one person at a time.
"I was hobbling through Wymondham in Norfolk, absolutely black and blue - completely battered - and not a single person batted an eyelid until the police investigation started, " she said.
And every young person you met -- single mom, struggled, lived in housing projects in Memphis.
Today is a reminder -- as Michelle and Jill Biden have already said -- that every American, every single person in this country, can do something to support our remarkable troops and their families.
Thirty years ago, as I started my so-called career, not a single person told me that computers and technology would get so cheap that they would practically end up being given away in boxes of Cheerios.
The best of the biometric databases in the world have a single de-duplication check, to ensure that every person is identified and tagged only once.
SNPs are single-letter mutations within the DNA that determine how one person is different from another.
"Every single person on our list carries a recognised categorization - so we know the patients with long-term conditions and the seriously-ill patients, " he said.
And this is a disease, as we know, that affects not just those diagnosed with it, and not just those who've survived it and those who've lost their lives to it, but it is a disease that also affects those who love and know them -- which these days seems like almost every single person in this country.
The council has 217 four-bedroom homes, with 122 occupied by a single person.
"Baby-Friendly at Rosebud is a reality because every single person made a commitment to making the program a success, which is an attribute we pride ourselves on at Rosebud, " says Sophie Two Hawk, M.
However, measuring workforce experience is complicated because no single person, department or function owns the experience from end-to-end.
I've always thought of the Zamboni as a single-warrior sport a challenge that falls entirely on one person's broad shoulders, along with the accompanying pressure and acclaim.
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