To these couples, it was routine to spend on dinner what at first seemed to Dan and Tammy to be a small fortune.

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"Reforming the corporate tax code does not help the majority of small businesses, " Dan Danner, chief executive of the National Federation of Independent Business, said in a statement.

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Small, locally oriented producers like Dan Carey of Wisconsin's New Glarus Brewing or the Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver are able to experiment with rare brews and sophisticated flavors, producing just a few barrels of a style if they wish.

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The team led by Dan Gibson and Craig Venter have exploited the ability of yeast to join together small pieces of DNA using enzymes.

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According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, DAN and RRD collectively make up 1.11% of the iShares Morningstar Small Value Index Fund ETF (JKL) which is up by about 0.2% on the day Thursday.

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Nearly a decade after Hammersley included it in an article for his then-employer, The Guardian newspaper, roughly 40 million or so people in the US alone download podcasts a year and the technology has unleashed a new era of small mini-podcast moguls, from Adam Carolla and Kevin Smith to Leo Laporte to Dan Benjamin.

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