"It is definitely an issue that concerns big companies and mom-and-pop Web sites alike, " Garlock says.
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But her equally big-boned mom, Edna, played rather sweetly by John Travolta, urges her to be practical, and think about working at Edna's Occidental Laundry.
Instead, the expectant mom shared the big news through her Facebook page earlier today.
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It had been too big then, but his mom had pinned it and taped it to make it work until he grew into it.
It didn't go over big with Ebay's mom-and-pop sellers at first.
Big Box toy discounters trampled mom-and-pops and lowered prices dramatically.
" He believes demand in both government and private industry has remained steady because accounting "flows from big business down to the mom-and-pop store on the street that needs to finance its loan.
After a series of indie flicks and some time off to play mom, Paltrow scored big with her leading lady role opposite Robert Downey Jr. in the summer blockbuster Iron Man.
The people who got screwed are the Mom and Pop investors on the retail side and the Mom and Pop investors into big pensions and mutual funds who always voted with management every year before and since the financial crisis.
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When even corporate treasurers are taking their money out of short-term securities and parking it in no-interest cash, you know the big boys are discovering the same anxieties Mom and Pop have known for a year as they ran out of safe havens for their assets.
She also notes "broader demographic themes" that will support growing bottom lines for homebuilders, such as continued immigration into the United States, a shortage of land available for building, and the market share that big builders continue to steal from the "mom and pop" outfits.
"Twitter has built an audience, but in order to achieve the scale and revenue that Google and Facebook are seeing it needs to show that marketing dollars spent on the site can perform well for mom and pops, not just big companies, " said Jonathan Strauss, chief executive of Snowball Factory Inc.
But as Martin Rama of the World Bank points out, Vietnam has almost no middling private firms between these mom-and-pop ventures and big exporters backed by foreign investors.
But of course, if you're a small business or a mom-and-pop business or a big business starting up here, you've got to pay even the reduced rate that Governor Romney is talking about.
Coca-Cola ( KO - news - people )'s latest mission is to prepare India's mom-and-pop retailers to take on big-box stores.
The bad news is that nothing of this sort is happening: "mom-and-pop" stores are thriving and big retail, promoted by some of the top business groups in the country, is struggling.
Only time will tell if this is just an emotional and political reaction or a long-term move by big-box retailers that have already priced out many of the mom-and-pop local gun-and-tackle shops.
As I always do at the end of these debates, I leave you with the words of my mom, who said, go vote. (Laughter.) It makes you feel big and strong.
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