• But Arends does delve into an important issue: no growth in revenue as the volume of actual trash disposed of has declined in the U.S. Manufacturers are using less packaging, consumers are re-using grocery bags, and little-by-little that overwhelming urge to reduce, re-use, recycle has gone from social movement to second nature for a lot of people.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Even a 95th-percentile blog--judged by its quality--has little chance of making it into our busy reading schedules.

    FORBES: My Life As a Blogger

  • Despite dip early in the New York trading day, many U.S.-based insurers were little changed by mid-afternoon.

    FORBES: U.S. Insurers Could Escape Japan Quake With Limited Damage

  • No Microsoft - we are a little bit concerned by the anti-trust suit against the company and the transition to Windows NT in the latter half of 1999.

    CNN: WATCHING WALL STREET

  • Her arrest triggered a 381-day boycott of the bus system organised by the then little-known Rev Luther King Jr, and the protest led to the desegregation of the transport system.

    BBC: NEWS | Americas | US civil rights icon Parks dies

  • In the past couple of years, though, three factors LNG from Qatar that was no longer needed in shale-gas-rich America, a little energy-market deregulation by the European Union and a drop in overall demand have helped to loosen the grip of Gazprom.

    ECONOMIST: Shale gas should make the world a cleaner, safer place

  • Will runs around in slow motion, exactly like the Six-Million-Dollar Man, and flies through the air as if launched by little off-camera trampolines.

    NEWYORKER: Wolf

  • The company, which is co-owned by Casey, does little other than sell Rose-signed memorabilia.

    WSJ: Pete Rose Works Full-Time Selling His Signature in Las Vegas

  • Italy, unable to reform, has made a virtue of a low-wage, low-productivity economy, with little social mobility, a choice given respectability by the preaching of a complacently anti-capitalist Church.

    NEWYORKER: Booted

  • By the time he was bundled out in the second round of Wimbledon by little-known George Bastl, Sampras cut a rather pathetic figure.

    BBC: Sampras' legacy already in place

  • It leads to a narrowing of the curriculum and a widespread teaching-to-the-test mentality that is little better than teaching by rote.

    FORBES: The Deep Pockets Behind Education Reform

  • Wales had a higher proportion of residents reporting that their day-to-day activities were limited a little or a lot by a long-term health problem or disability (23%) than any English region.

    BBC: Census 2011: Number of Welsh speakers falling

  • And that number--published by the New York tabloids--is little more than an educated guess made on the back of a napkin.

    FORBES: Bush's Plan: Too Much, Too Soon

  • As with the Lakers riot last year in L.A., window smashing, car-flipping, and looting was well-documented by lots of Little Brothers.

    FORBES: Cup o' Justice: Coffee Chain Blenz Sues Vancouver Rioters

  • The electrically controlled door was solid steel, with a seven-inch-by-twenty-eight-inch aperture and two wickets little door slots, one at ankle height and one at waist height, for shackling him whenever he was let out and for passing him meal trays.

    NEWYORKER: Hellhole

  • In the disaggregated report, the copper net-long position for the managed-money accounts rose by a little less than 300 contracts, to 16, 438, as they cut more gross shorts than gross longs.

    FORBES: FOCUS: Speculators Add Again To Precious Metals Futures, Options -- CFTC

  • But - apart from Milner's injury-time drive, which was well saved by Boaz Myhill - City created little and West Brom deserved to take their place in the last 16.

    BBC: West Brom 2-1 Man City

  • Those countries - led by Britain - who always wanted Europe to be little more than the market, have won - at least for now.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | EU's 'Waterloo' summit angers press

  • Lea Corinth, who is studying international business and Spanish at the University of Westminster uses the re-reading technique - rated by the researchers as being of little use.

    BBC: Revision techniques - the good, the OK and the useless

  • This was the closest Ribery would come to affecting the game from his central playmaker role and, as against Uruguay, Anelka was largely anonymous and was replaced at half-time by Andre-Pierre Gignac, who also offered little in his 45 minutes on the pitch.

    BBC: France 0-2 Mexico

  • The bright yellow, fully Sprint-ified UI theme is an acquired taste, the reversed direction of the QWERTY slide takes a little getting used to, and we found the soft buttons by the d-pad just a little hard to single out.

    ENGADGET: Hands-on with the Sprint Mogul by HTC Mobile

  • Once again, the result is better-behaved transistors and reduced power consumption as little as half that demanded by old-style transistors, says the firm, with no loss of performance.

    ECONOMIST: Transistors

  • Forty-two-year-old Edward Scheetz walks by them, looking a little pale and very out of place.

    FORBES: Betting The House

  • If you are a fan of reality TV, you have probably noticed an overabundance of house-flipping shows, and each show paints a picture of a little hard work followed by nearly risk-free profit for those who endure.

    FORBES: Are Distressed Homes Worth Buying?

  • The club is to submit an application for Hernandez - who is known by the nickname Chicarito, which means 'little pea' - and if it is granted, he will become a United player on 1 July.

    BBC: 302 Moved

  • The greatest strides, however, have been made by a little-known former contractor called Harmony.

    ECONOMIST: South African gold mining

  • The long awaited Jurassic Park 4 will be directed by little-known director Colin Trevorrow, Universal Pictures has said.

    BBC: Colin Trevorrow

  • All in all, the chair is reminiscent of an apparently prescient song by little-known Canadian folk rockers Moxy Fruvous.

    FORBES: Ten O'Clock Tech: The Explorer E-cliner

  • Half of the World's children are immunized by vaccines made by a little-known company, Serum Institute of India, in Pune.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The first is that the bulk of Britain's pension deficit resides in thousands of smaller plans offered by little-known companies.

    ECONOMIST: Why pension deficits are proving so hard to shift

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