What Sarbanes-Oxley has manifestly done is impose hefty costs on publicly held companies, especially small ones.

FORBES: Needed: Space-Age Approaches to Space

The new simplicity would make it easier, more enticing for companies, especially small ones, to offer such vehicles.

FORBES: Fact and Comment

E-communications provide some hope of keeping at bay all the forces which threaten the existence of diasporas, especially small ones: assimilation (seen in the decline of once-mighty tongues like Yiddish and Latino) and the danger of irrelevance as the world moves on.

ECONOMIST: Diasporas

We should lower the barriers at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the approval of new nuclear reactors, especially the new small ones.

WSJ: The New Nuclear Revolution

With the abolition of many controls, old uneconomic plants, especially small units, are being replaced by ones that are more competitive.

ECONOMIST: India

The reason any of this matters is that what is being sold is largely a small-business bank - almost two-thirds of its loans are to businesses, especially smaller ones - and right now one of the alleged great scandals of the British economy is the great shortage of choice for small businesses in the provision of vital finance.

BBC: Investors want to buy RBS's Williams & Glyn's