Coffee chain Starbucks has agreed to pay more UK corporation tax, after a public outcry over how little it pays.
But only a little it had better be: in times like these it is not economists but markets that count.
The mortgage market is still young: a startling aspect of Moscow's wild property-price boom is how little it is driven by mortgages.
He knew exactly what was meant, and also how little it signified.
As an institution matures, little by little it shifts from serving its original purpose to serving the ends of those who control it.
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Business owners have realized that, with a little IT support and a few hugs, a typical PC can now last for 5-7 years, even longer.
Moreover, the oil and gas boom obscures the fact that Russia has little it can sell apart from what it can dig out of the ground.
The Bank of England has moved a long way from its stony stance last summer, when it argued that there was little it could do to affect three-month interbank rates.
His face relaxed and opened up, and Vivian saw how great the barriers were between a person and his happiness, and how little it took to make him think they were small.
Northumberland Estates said it was working hard to find a long-term solution but said there was little it could do "in the face of such very extreme weather conditions until the culvert can be cleared".
Moto never had a lot of stake in the Symbian game to begin with, and what little it did have was in the UIQ camp -- the camp being killed off in Symbian's transition to an open platform -- and what's more, the company has made no secret of its ambitions to become an Android powerhouse.
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It is certainly a significant figure, but it means little unless it is compared with the cost of care for people of normal weight and for those who are underweight.
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It matters little if it is performance enhancing drugs to win a sporting event, inside information to put on a fast buck trade, padded Vatican contracts, or Goldman Sachs putting its own profits before those of its clients.
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Although it has recently risen a little, it is still extremely low.
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The bigger suppliers have an advantage because they generate their own power, selling most of it to consumers, with little of it going to wholesale markets.
They said that some of it may be familiar, but little of it is expected.
This last is probably the most illuminating roster to me, because it invites attention to players that often get very little of it.
We just got it unboxed and toyed around with it a little -- it's not the smallest 15.5-inch machine we've ever seen, but it's not a clunker, either.
The UK and Sweden, while not opposed to the tax in principle, have both warned that it makes little sense unless it is applied globally, as investors will simply move their trading activity to a different country in order to avoid paying it.
But with Azerbaijan - it's so far away and we know so little about it.
Though it is hot at every drug company, most say little about it for fear theyll tip their hands.
It is also said to be more energy efficient, consuming so little power it is able to remain on for a considerable time after it has been powered down.
It is produced by a movie producer, Mark Tarlov and in very little time it has become the Pinot Noir of choice.
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It's a little slow, and it's maybe a little bit better for (Nadal).
It is my prediction we will never know the whole story because it is not in the interest of JP Morgan Chase to try the case, but to pay as little as it has to in order to seal it up forever.
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In fact, it seems a little crazy that it takes that much work to get coverage.
"It looks a little crazier than it normally would but we're moving ahead, " said Tom Gilmour, the town's commerce director.
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