Of course, there are good reasons why the markets' fears of price swings in general might be smaller now than in late 2002, when, among other things, fears about the fragility of corporate America were at their height.
But if you've had your fill of security checks, Space Mountain-size ticketing lines and the general cattle-call atmosphere of major airports, smaller air-transit hubs are packed with sweet surprises and can make for a less stressful and, dare we say it, far more pleasurable trip.
True, unemployment has risen sharply, but this is due mainly to a surge of bankruptcies among smaller firms, rather than the start of a general restructuring.
In general larger firms grew at the expense of smaller ones.
Other possible causes include hitters muscling themselves up as never before during the off-season, the creation of smaller baseball parks and a general decline in the quality of pitching (every time there is an expansion of the leagues, the theory goes, the pitching talent pool is stretched thin, and batters have a field day, so to speak).
The larger company will own most of General Growth's malls, and the smaller one will hold its riskier assets such as residential developments.
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In general, says Fadel Gheit, of Oppenheimer, an investment bank, smaller, specialist exploration companies tend to find more oil relative to their size than big integrated firms.
"I moved to La Finca two years ago, " says the 36-year-old, who relocated from a smaller home nearby with her husband, the general manager of a technology company.
The General Accounting Office has recommended that Congress and the Administration consider the consolidation of smaller IG offices into larger IG offices.
Supporting a handful of carefully selected universities will probably have a greater longterm impact on the general discourse on issues like contemporary anti-Semitism than spreading smaller amounts of funding across a larger number of institutions.
Hanson spent 2 years persuading General Dynamics to sell one near Chicago and 15 years of patient waiting before a smaller competitor in California agreed to sell another.
And then much smaller cuts of beef are sent already - you know, meat in general - are sent already pre-wrapped to stores like Safeway or Costco.
As a sophisticated player in a technology infrastructure company, he realizes that the number of companies that will buy Hadoop and run it as a general purpose infrastructure is much smaller than the number companies who will buy it to run applications for specific purposes.
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Taking that assurance at face value, prime contractor General Dynamics launched a campaign to convince Congress and the Obama Administration that buying a smaller number of the vehicles while upgrading current amphibious systems would be more cost-effective than canceling the program and starting over.
The government took a 60% equity stake in General Motors, and as part of the deal GM began selling off assets, closing facilities, making itself smaller.
But the foundation for the current growth of federal enforcement agencies was laid in the 1960s and 1970s when smaller departments started having inspectors general whose task was to police the government.
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Smaller automakers face an uphill climb given the scale of their production, while larger firms like General Motors can leverage its facilities to produce its Chevy Volts, for example.
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Around half of the supermarket's sales growth came from the online arm and smaller convenience stores, he said, with general merchandise and clothing growing at more than twice the rate of food over the year.
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