The small country, like the small man, gets pushed around by bullies but survives through instinct and guile.
Kyoto's contemplative bars are somewhat like the small wooden kaiseki restaurants that have made the city famous for its cuisine.
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The situation is even more dramatic with indexes like the small-cap Russell 2000 and Nasdaq, where many investors have, or had, their holdings.
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The Romney plan, just like the Small Business Authority helps small businesses grow their sales, reduce their risk and reduce their expense to operate.
Though efforts were then made to lure the Joffrey Ballet from New York (it went to Chicago), it was not until 1996 that Los Angeles got a resident dance company, Dancecorps, which, like the small troupes in Anaheim, Pasadena and Ventura county, have far to go before they achieve the renown of Ms Lewitzky's.
Yet the same economist notes that Dubai, like the other small emirates in the federation, carries an excellent insurance policy.
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The Mustang feels like a small business jet, whereas the Eclipse felt like a small twin piston airplane.
Like the many small, incremental improvements that, when added together, result in Moore's law, the two sides' respective contributions do not in themselves constitute a true technological revolution.
Alas, like the supposedly dumb small investor, the pension funds ended up chasing past performance.
Then I was staring at my hand again, the fingers slightly parted, the skin of the knuckles like small walnuts, the nails with vertical lines of faint shine.
Sure, the drive can be a pain sometimes, but I feel like we get the small town life with many of the city benefits.
There were dozens of community bike-share programs like the one in my small town dotting the country in the 1980s and 1990s.
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They range from the 60s with bands like the Rolling Stones, Small Faces and the Yardbirds, through the 70s (Slade, Suzi Quatro, Sweet) and 80s (Eurythmics, Elton John) to the 90s (Oasis, Verve, Catatonia).
But even as Dogpatch booms, devotees say the district still feels like a small town within the city.
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See, for folks like these, the small business tax cuts this administration has passed mean the difference between those kind of businesses hiring new employees or handing out pink slips.
Many Republicans like aspects of the small-business tax bill.
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These expected high-mileage runners run the gamut from affordable small cars like the Toyota Yaris and the Scion xB and xD, to family minded SUVs including the Acura RDX, Lexus RX 350 and the Toyota RAV4 and 4Runner to utilitarian pickups like the Chevrolet Avalanche and Honda Ridgeline.
With big trucks and SUVs in the mix, automakers need small cars like the C-Max to overachieve.
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At the fabled Xerox Palo Alto Research Center scientists sat on beanbag chairs and dreamed up inventions like the graphical user interface for small computers and the PostScript language for printers, as well as ways to link computers within an office.
Sit in the single, brushed steel and wood seat unveiled by the Queen of Norway in 2006, which offers awe-inspiring views of the cruise ships that appear like small matchstick boats on the crystal clear Gieranger fjord below.
Under the microscope "it looks like a small bomb went off in the nucleus, " says George Demetri, an oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
The reason we're proposing things like small business lending, the jobs and wages tax credit, the energy retrofit program, is because we think those will be particularly effective.
When we saw the Corsair 900D at CES we knew we had the enclosure we needed to make the original Hailstorm look like a small mid-tower system and not the bad ass high performance system it really was.
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The food is made in-house daily, including small bites like the LG Cocina salad, with caramelized walnuts, apples, fresh strawberries, blue cheese crumbles and balsamic-honey dressing, and sandwiches, such as a roasted portobello on ciabatta.
Moreover the kind of cost-benefit assessments agencies do are indifferent to the individuals (like small business and their would-be employees) forced to privately bear the costs of those public benefits.
Much like the forgotten American middle class, small businesses are the backbone of America, and they receive far less government attention than big business, despite the fact that they actually employ more people.
And it begins with the tax-and-mandate scheme that undermines the employer-provided health care system that has made it possible for small businesses like the one I used to run to provide health benefits for millions of our employees.
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They are also much too quick to assume that the sort of blueprints that work for city states like Singapore or small countries like Denmark might work for goliaths like the United States.
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The entire dark chassis may seem basic and highly minimalistic, but there are small intricacies like the chrome borders, hidden port covers, and wave-shaped hinges that just make this thing feel more like a computing piece of art than a basic bargain-basement PC.
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