And we gave them a boost with a contract from the Small Business Administration so they can counsel the small businesses that spring from this cluster on things like patents and exporting, and getting these revolutionary products to market faster.
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Of course, if the Chinese slip into their old habits and let thousands of small-scale smelters spring up again, the market could be flooded with antimony and non-Chinese producers driven out.
It cut back on loans and started a program last spring that offers small-increment bonds to retail investors.
Around 100, 000 people have used Paper.li since Swiss-start-up Small River launched it last spring, and around 1, 000 papers are being created each day.
There is a similar but slightly more secluded pool at Fatnas Spring, the small island in the salty Birket Siwa (Lake Siwa) accessible across a narrow causeway.
It is intended to be eaten alongside other small plates, such as spring rolls with begonias and pansies, and a sweet, purple drink made from butterfly pea flowers.
"When we opened up, we acted like teenagers, " says Mr. Puglisi, speaking this spring in a small test kitchen near his two restaurants, alluding to an effort to break out from under Noma's long shadow.
Partridge also notes that new therapies spring up in small pockets of the U.S., and if a therapy is not available in the city where the patient is being treated, it may not be considered a viable option by the oncologist.
When browsing the spring onions, look for small bulbs and taut green stems.
Ditto the little plates at Mediterranean restaurants (a caprese salad consisting of mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil drizzled with olive oil can be 400 calories) and the small plates at Korean restaurants (fried spring rolls and coconut shrimp).
Downstairs in the Emerald, the lounge hops with a see-and-be-seen crowd who congregate for pre-dinner craft cocktails and small plates (think fish tacos and duck spring rolls), then dancing and mingling in the later evening hours.
The law will let the flagging hospital "recoup at least some of those costs, " he said, a potential catalyst for Spring Branch, a dying breed of small, for-profit facilities.
In the same speech she announced 17 tax breaks for small businesses via the Recovery Act, the Small Business Jobs Act and other laws in the spring of 2011.
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The tendency is for small stocks to often continue to outperform larger stocks into the spring.
By contrast, small businesses in Texas have been sprouting like bluebonnets in the spring to meet the demands of an expanding population.
The company has been getting a lot of cold calls from potential clients and Spring predicts he will need to expand his still small company.
You may recall that in the spring I highlighted the plight of Adcocks, a small electricals retailer in Norfolk, brought to the brink of collapse after it bought one of the notorious structured collars from Barclays.
"It seems that the government is still frightened by the events transpiring in the Middle East and are trying to do what it takes to keep the Arab Spring from reaching its shore, regardless of how small that possibility might be, " he said.
That, believe some intelligence analysts, may presage further small-scale incursions along the LOC intended to provide cover for spring-time infiltration.
Tuesday's small scale rebellion by Lib Dem MPs, and Sunday's spring conference vote notwithstanding, the party in Parliament has given fairly solid support to the latest incarnation of the bill in both the Commons and the Lords.
The small bump in home prices in April was likely due to the traditional spring buying season showing its head.
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The wall of glass on one side of the library, combined with its geographic exposition and the density of students in the small facilities turned it into a sauna for half the day during the spring months (which were also the exam months, when the libraries were most in demand).
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The slugger rejected a multiyear extension last offseason that was said to include a small percentage of the franchise and cut off negotiations on the first day of spring training.
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Though small in number, the fish thrived in the Mississippi, gorging on plankton and reproducing each spring.
Over the spring and summer, the greater Detroit area was hit by devastating tornadoes in the small town of Dexter, outside Ann Arbor, as well as power outages over the Fourth of July.
The small temple, which was a Christian Science reading room until the congregation bought it in the spring of 1992, is tucked back on a winding residential street in the northern part of the city, not far from the university that shares its name with the town.
By late spring, when unemployment doubles to over 1m, bankruptcies soar among both big and small companies, and inflation resumes, no amount of squeezing of the chaebol to make them pay for their previous sins will prevent South Korea's awkward unions from storming back into the streets.
To fill them, spring-loaded rods push high-volume drugs like ibuprofen from their tubes into a small nylon nest moving along the conveyor belt at the bottom of the machine.
In the Spring of that year, the Clinton administration seriously considered air strikes on North Korea's small nuclear reactor at Yongbyon.
Five partners of Draper Fisher Jurvetson gathered in their small, glassed-in conference room to hear a new business pitch at 8:30 one morning last spring.
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