But the biggest divide is neither big-small nor north-south.
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Jewelers -- big and small -- have reported strong sales of engagement and wedding rings, in sharp contrast to slumping demand for other luxury items.
The sport shares the same big market-small market division of interests that the NBA and NHL do, yet little has flared up in recent years.
But in the world of big-and small-money map theft, it's more like taking candy from a baby--or in this case, a library: Simply walk in, slice 'em out of a book and walk out.
Consumers want a consistent size piece of pork -- not too big or too small --and they want their chops to look the same each time they go to the store.
Is it so hard to picture this migration: Big-box to small-box, to no-box at all?
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On social media, we can share -- as Jim so often did -- big and small parts of our life, without worrying that others are too busy or simply not interested in hearing it.
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Then we have a company called Shahmoon TV whose Street Ads use large HD video posters to bring big-screen advertising to small scale stores, enabling businesses to interact with passers-by, feed live information, and communicate directly with those consumers.
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And there could be retailing of equity stakes - that is, aimed at the small-scale investor wanting to take a punt on a small-scale company with a big idea.
Massachusetts isn't alone as leaders in several states are also pursuing changes big and small, post-Newtown.
The big-wheel trend is a small one that helps designers give even everyday family cars more aggressive, racier looks.
You come from every conceivable background -- from big cities and small towns, from every race and faith and station.
And the increase in forecast budget surpluses has anyway shifted the debate away from the old big-government-versus-small-government arguments of the 1980s.
Property disputes, stolen girlfriends, stolen boyfriends, stolen sheep, spilled beer -- all issues big and small fall within the bounds of Takanakuy's physical jurisprudence.
That's largely because many big-time coaches graduated from small colleges that play on lower levels like Arkansas's Bobby Petrino, who went to tiny Carroll (Mont.) College while others wind up at their alma maters, like Virginia Tech's Frank Beamer.
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Two years ago Selig engineered new revenue-sharing requirements to help small-city teams compete with big-city teams.
Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown tried to draw out Mr. Lew on one of the Senator's favorite subjects: The fact that too-big-to-fail banks can borrow at lower rates than small banks because of the implied government backing.
Digital video has moved beyond DVDs and cable set-top boxes to big cinema screens, small screens like the new iPod's and over the Web in the form of Internet-downloaded movies and TV shows.
The government plans to eliminate the 10% corporate-tax surcharge and reduce the company-tax rate to 33% for big firms and only 15% for small and medium-sized firms.
But Ford isn't the only one playing big-company antics more common among small-fry marketers.
Mr Lind's attack is more original than Mr Frum's, and he exposes many sins, big and small, of right-wing Texans.
The bright outlook and new CBA is not only raising the values of big-market teams, but the small fry as well.
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While Web news sites may be sapping big-city dailies' circulations, small-time papers are thriving by covering school board meetings, town festivals and school lunch menus.
Conservatism has other rewards, too: being a big, safe-sounding bank in small countries has allowed it to pay uncompetitive interest rates and still keep pulling in deposits.
Anderson seems to understand these difficulties as well as anyone, but feels confident that BlackBerry 10 offers up a unique enough experience to be a no-brainer for developers big and small.
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We'd say the big problem -- and not a small problem for game developers, to be sure -- is the fact that true 1-to-1 tennis gameplay would be a major undertaking to simulate.
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As capitalism enriches capital at the expense of labor and Wall Street at the expense of Main Street the winners are busily erecting anticompetitive toll gates all across the economic landscape, be they in the form of lower borrowing costs enjoyed by the still-too-big-to-fail banks or the higher health insurance premiums facing small businesses.
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