But, they also serve as platforms for innovative ideas that, as in this case, can help bring at least a small measure of needed order to events as chaotic as a tornado.
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"In a week, we probably do somewhere in the order of 500 operations, which is a relatively small number in terms of the work that we do, " he said.
She said the garments allegedly produced by the children represented a small portion of a single order placed with the vendor and that the clothes would not be sold in stores.
The verynice model hopes to establish a new standard amongst small business owners in order to define a new kind of corporate philanthropy that has the ability to identify the potential for social good in small business.
How many taxpayers took advantage of free or inexpensive computer applications in order to submit their returns instead of using a small accounting firm?
For a majority of small shopkeepers, no order is too small and no house too far.
Located on the fourth floor of the Five-Star Peninsula Chicago, Shanghai Terrace dishes up Chinese cuisine (you can order from a slew of small plate options outside) served by a waitstaff dressed in traditional Chinese garb.
An engineer from Tehran (Behzad Dourani) arrives in a small mountain village in order to record some sort of ritual that depends on the death of an old lady.
For over 30 years, I have been urging all Americans to educate themselves about monetary policy in order to better understand how a small group of unelected individuals at the Fed and the Treasury Department wield tremendous power over our lives.
Samsung buys a small stake in Sharp in order to secure a steady supply of display panels.
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Order a traditional Ukrainian breakfast of syrniki, small pancakes made of curd cheese served with jam or sour cream.
At this family-run stalwart, the mountain of fries that comes in even a small order borders on the ridiculous -- so no wonder the college kids keep coming back.
Xerox owns the mid-rung trade: the Kinkos and Sir Speedys of the world, where a small business might order a professional job.
Centered in the room is a butcher-block tasting table, where you can order small shots of top-shelf wheat, rice, potato, corn and even grape vodka.
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Traders typically put down just a small percentage of a gold contract's full value in order to trade it, and this amount, known as margin, must be increased when prices fall.
The molecules are then sorted according to their length by using an electric current to drag them through a gel (small molecules move faster than big ones) and the order of the colours in the gel is read off, using a laser.
Decades ago, the WGA agreement provided for a credit of this sort, but it was eliminated in order to create the often-fictional idea that only a small number of writers contribute to a script.
Normally, the company would not see any results until all patients had been followed for the entire length of the trial, but Tularik will take a look at a small percentage of these patients while the clinical trials are still ongoing in order to make sure that there are no unexpected problems with the drug's safety or efficacy.
If they simply focused a small portion of their formidable skills on examining the information in their own outgoing order flows, they could stop most, if not all, of these problems.
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The findings, just published in Public Health Nutrition, are a rebuff to an increasingly vocal campaign by a small group of public health academics to impose hefty taxes on sugar sweetened beverages in order to curb obesity.
One does not have to legalize stealing bread to forgive Valjean: one must only forgive the relatively small evil of stealing bread in order to avoid the greater evil of keeping a good man in a position of perpetual fear.
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This was the essential difficulty of the task at hand: The higher-ups in the U.S. Army needed to know about the enemy in this unexplored province, so in order to learn as much as they could, they were going to stick a small group of troops in its midst.
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The European Union says it will send food and perhaps a small force of policemen to help guard important supplies--once it is clear that a basic order has been restored.
We have a lot of work and learning to do in order to catch up with our global competitors whose small- and medium-sized businesses are already skilled exporters.
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Like a lot of the other guerrilla marketmakers, Citron and Levine got their start through Nasdaq's Small Order Execution System, or SOES. This allows orders of 1, 000 shares or fewer to be executed automatically at marketmakers' quots.
Like a lot of the other guerrilla marketmakers, Citron and Levine got their start through Nasdaq's Small Order Execution System, or SOES. An early response to critics of Nasdaq's voluntary dealer market, SOES allowed orders of 1, 000 shares or fewer to be executed automatically at marketmakers' advertised quotes.
In criminal cases a judge may not always order the return of funds and even when they do the case may have only been heard on a small sample of the fraud committed.
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