• One expert calculated for us that the amount of tax saved in the halcyon days of 5% interest rates would be quite small and would be "lost in the wash, " as he put it.

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  • Mark Mazer, whose teeth-whitening firm is doing well, said he thought Mr Romney would be best for small businesses.

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  • He said surgery would only be suitable for a small proportion of Parkinson's patients.

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  • He planned to present a small plaque to the pope and tell the pontiff how he would not be alive today without Blessed Kateri's help.

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  • One possibility he mentioned would be a video chat service aimed at small businesses.

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  • He suggested that the cause would probably be found to be a small, independent restaurant or take-away.

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  • If he's right, it would be true to form for small investors.

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  • He said he hoped the next step would be a demonstration mission to capture something small.

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  • On a November 14 CNBC interview, he said that in total he owned 64 million shares, as one more small purchase would be disclosed in the fourth quarter.

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  • Yet Mr Daniels says he would be surprised if the Indiana voucher program ever attracted more than a small percentage of children.

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  • Family weddings would be duller if Uncle Joe were limited to the small fish he caught.

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  • From where she stood, her elbows resting on the railing three floors above, he looked, despite his gray hair and beard, like a small child waiting for permission that he was almost certain would not be granted.

    NEWYORKER: Alone

  • The tycoon - who has said before that he intends to give away most of his money - told Forbes in April that even if he gave his children a small part of his wealth, "it would be more than they can digest in many lifetimes".

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  • Spencer already had a small database of would-be entrepreneurs from the Web page he'd set up at Capital Express.

    FORBES: You bet your life

  • He said that the budget would encourage small and medium businesses and that taking risks would also be encouraged.

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  • He knelt by the stream and, pushing his automatic pistol around on his belt to the small of his back so that it would not be wet, he lowered himself with a hand on each of two boulders and drank from the stream.

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  • "Those who claim that this effect would be small succumb either to an illusion or deliberately underestimate this risk, " he said.

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  • He said that people would have to be confident that rates would stay very low even if there was a small rise in inflation above the target level, because otherwise, low rates would be a less effective stimulus to the economy.

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  • Mr Clarke says the secret court hearings would only be used in a very small number of very sensitive cases and told the BBC he was sure he could reassure Mr Clegg.

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  • He says Sungevity has put together an initial small fund from investors to finance the residential power purchase agreements and would be looking to banks, leasing companies and other institutions for further financing.

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  • Stephanie Flanders, the BBC's economics editor, explained to today presenter sarah Montague that even if David Cameron "lost" on getting the freeze that he will be looking for, the increase that would come into place over the next few years "is actually very small" in comparison to the increase that the UK has had to pay in recent years.

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  • He would be happy to leave this town, to pack his brushes and canvases, his pigments and palette, into the small cart, to saddle his mare, and then take the forest trails that, in three days, would lead him home.

    NEWYORKER: The Limner

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