• Generating billions of dollars for her makers Mattel, Barbie, with her long legs, tiny waist and big bust has also generated much controversy.

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  • So when I did the score for "Dead Man, " I had the film projected on TV screens, and I had, like, about 20 TVs all around me, big ones, little ones, tiny little portables, and wide screens and everything hanging from the ceiling in a big semicircle all the way around me.

    NPR: Singer and Songwriter Neil Young

  • But Big Oil, Big Ethanol and tiny start-ups like Verenium have all failed to meet federal mandates for so-called advanced biofuels, fuels produced with agricultural waste or dedicated fuel crops like switchgrass instead of from edible grains like corn.

    FORBES: BP's Biofuels Play: Plan B or PR?

  • Got a big heart and a tiny wallet?

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  • Even this matters: with the economy currently close to zero growth (second-quarter GDP figures will be released on July 25th) tiny changes make a big difference to headlines and political fortunes.

    ECONOMIST: The economic impact of the games

  • Cephalon's five-year annualized sales growth of 102% makes it the fastest-growing biotech in the U.S. (after weeding out tiny firms or ones with big problems) and the sixth fastest-growing tech company overall.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It might be worth sacrificing a permanent increase in inflation for a temporary cut in unemployment--if the increase in inflation were tiny, and if the drop in unemployment were big and prolonged (albeit not permanent).

    ECONOMIST: Up the NAIRU without a paddle

  • The oil mill scrapes off the tiny fuzzy bits with microscopic saws and turns them into big bundles of fuzz to be sold.

    NPR: Texas Cotton: 'Farmer Profits at Every Step'

  • Just outside the harbor, the bay is awash with tiny islands, fishing piers, swimming beaches and a big resort, where some boats also stop.

    FORBES: The Mystery Island From 'Skyfall' And How You Can Go There

  • There are 9-foot floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides, a wood-paneled kitchen, a tiny bedroom just big enough for a bed, and a bathroom with a tub that looks out to the view.

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  • You must tear down and re-create your company--or at least your e-commerce division--to ride what the Internet surf has brought in: oceans of risk capital, highly mobile talent pools, tiny markets that could scale and explode, marginless growth, big hairy bets on the future.

    FORBES: Digital Rules

  • Today is a big day for the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda.

    NPR: U.S. Slow to Change Internet Gaming Laws

  • Stephen Baldwin gives the liveliest performance as the sole white person in the posse (which also includes Tone Loc, Big Daddy Kane, Charles Lane, and Tiny Lister, Jr.).

    NEWYORKER: Posse

  • The Cloud is bigger than Big, but it is also amorphous and composed of millions of tiny, discrete elements.

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  • If you were to start with a grain of sugar, he says, and chopped it up into ever smaller pieces and simply ended up with a tiny grain of sugar, that would be no big deal.

    ECONOMIST: Small wonders

  • But it is the starting point, the big picture, the tiny bundle of information that gives users the context to appreciate and understand the most challenging and rewarding works of journalism.

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  • And though he argued from sentiment, mourning the replacement of the big communal fields with tiny leased plots, he had a point.

    ECONOMIST: Obituary

  • There was a time at big concerts when musicians could look out from the stage and see little flickers of tiny flames all around an arena.

    FORBES: The User-Generated Concert: This Is The Remix

  • Part of the reason that there is a groundswell of populist anger at the economic solutions that suit those "too big to fail" banks is that too many people and businesses who are infinitesimally tiny by comparison are on the verge of failure.

    FORBES: America's Two Economies

  • In 1998 Parrot Cay debuted, on a tiny, private cay accessible only by boat, and early in 2005, The Palms resort on the "big" island of Providenciales (population: 6, 000) opened, promoting its spa as its centerpiece.

    FORBES: The spa at The Palms ups the ante on the Turks & Caicos.

  • The solution to many big corporate problems can be found by thinking small, so try to act like a tiny company and always be shipping!

    FORBES: Why Big Companies Go Bad and How to Cope by Thinking Small

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