The 78-year-old woman had a small sum of money taken from her and had to be taken to hospital after suffering serious injuries.

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This is understandable because managing a small sum of money in the early accumulation years is quite different than managing a large sum in retirement.

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Many times, children are the ones offering a photo of themselves for a small sum of money, having learned from picture-hungry tourists that they can easily sell a snapshot.

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Sometimes the motive is nothing more than keeping a good customer happy following a miscommunication involving a relatively small sum of money.

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Rather than develop his own forecasting algorithms, in 2003 Baron shelled out an undisclosed sum for a small unit of engineers with supercomputers (spun out of the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, a nonprofit research organization) that could anticipate storms up to a week in advance.

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The sum concerned is small, but it is a matter of principle.

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But I would wager a small sum (ie, not as much as an Apple share) that some of it is to do with Adam Smith and excess profits.

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