New York is a small world, and it was perhaps inevitable that they'd eventually run into each other socially.
Ordinary savings accounts may seem far removed from the intrigues of international politics and finance, but its a small world these days.
"Our aim is to be much smaller, " said Ms. Heller, a former strategy consultant who has run A Small World since 2011.
"It's a small world - and a small country like Scotland can do its bit in making it a fairer world, " he said.
All these chance associations show that it's truly a small world after all--they surely shouldn't be taken to reflect poorly upon Chicago's clean reputation.
The organisers said global companies, international finance and advances in technology had created a small world in which poverty was increasing, both at home and across the world.
Pennington says London might be getting bigger, but the Web site brings people together in an otherwise impersonal city and reminds them that it's a small world, after all.
It is a small world, after all.
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But with future telescopes, scientists say it may be possible to see past the blinding glare of the parent star to pick out just the faint light passing through a small world's atmosphere or even reflected off its surface.
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Ms. Heller, 36, is CEO of the invitation-only social network, which began nine years ago as a site where fancy people could trade tips on art openings in London or samba nights in Reykjavik. ("Facebook for the few, " as Ms. Heller put it with a sigh.) An invitation to A Small World was once highly coveted, but the site's social currency has waned in the Twitter age.
The technology sector is a pretty small world: You are going to run into that partner again.
It's a small, small dysfunctional world after all, in Moore's depiction.
There are influential people in a small-world network, but this tends to come from connections to an unusually diverse set of people, rather than having an unusually large number of connections.
These exhibits, chosen not with scholarly precision but for the most part by ordinary Scots who responded to museum adverts seeking items which have significantly affected modern Scottish life, speak not of parochial concerns but of a people acknowledging their small place in a big world.
But how does a smallish company in a remote country penetrate world markets on a small budget?
My rationale is that Egypt accounts for a small portion of the world economy and, more importantly, that the events unfolding are unpredictable.
Unlike expensive high-tech surgery, Mr Mannion found a simple solution within the reach of more than a small percentage of the world's population.
In fact it is anomalous that a group of 30-odd countries with a small fraction of the world's population should be calling the shots.
There are only a couple of dozen stocks among the holdings in the fund, and New Zealand is a small fraction of the world index.
After discussing the situation with Randy McDuff, we also felt that the Greek economy was such a small piece of the world economy that we thought the Greek election would be a non-event.
As prime minister from 1959 to 1990, he led its rise from a poor, small, corrupt port to a first-world city-state in just one generation.
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That is not a small sum in the chess world and it is intended to ensure that the professionals turn up.
It will also help fund a small number of real-world experiments that try different transportation techniques in cities and towns around the country using advanced vehicles at scale.
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Through the tap of her cane, which, like an echolocating bat, sends a small sound out into the world, she could detect the size and constituents of the space through which she was walking.
While they are also hoping to get picked up by networks looking for an alternative to the big three of iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, you can be sure that their own handset (due out in 2014) is going to be sought after from a small part of the smartphone world.
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And we renew our promise that the United States will be a partner to any nation, large or small, that will contribute to a world that is more peaceful and more prosperous, more just and more free.
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