Beneath them is a mass of small and medium-sized firms that collectively employ around half of American workers and are heavily reliant on banks.
When these isotopes are combined at high temperatures, a small amount of mass is lost and a colossal amount of energy is released.
"The land mass of the country may be small but it is spread out over a huge area, so it offers a fairly unique logistical problem -- particularly if you need to implement a regular league season, " he said.
The frequency at which it happens is related to a small but significant difference between the mass of the particle and its antiparticle.
The compounds in their breath were analysed using a technique called secondary electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (SESI-MS), which is capable of detecting extremely small elements of the chemicals present in their breath.
Building up a little equity is a good idea, a democracy of property owners is a different thing from a country with a small group of rentiers and a mass of renters.
And systems and complexity theory suggest strongly that a relatively small number is in play when it comes to the size of the critical mass of folks in whom lost confidence can have sweeping, cascading effects.
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The debt-limit lever they can apply is long enough, the one-house majority they have as a fulcrum is strong enough, and the mass of spending they are trying to pry out of the budget, less than 8 percent, is small enough.
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But Mexico's newspaper market is still marked by its history: with many small papers, none has much influence among the mass of voters.
AIDS. The likelihood that a mutant protein can slip through unnoticed is small: the spectrometer can tell apart proteins that differ by less than a tenth of a proton mass in weight.
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