If anything, it penalizes those who work hard because they spend time, energy and their own money to help students, only to get the same check each month as the worst teacher in the district (or an even smaller one, if that teacher has been there longer).
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But multiply that point solution by the number of offices around the world and the number of unique business needs that crop up, and an enterprise can one day find its ERP surrounded by dozens or even hundreds of smaller applications.
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Others have suggested we use nuclear weapons to "kick" an asteroid from its orbit, or even to shatter it into smaller debris -- a rather dim idea that misleads us into believing a single bullet is worse than the blast from a shotgun.
This creates opportunities for the likes of Chevron to buy promising offshore prospects from smaller rivals (or even from BP) and to extend its deepwater success.
They would rather see looser listing requirements at traditional stock exchanges (as is happening in Singapore), an Asia-wide second market linking many of the smaller exchanges, or even Nasdaq itself extended fully to Asia, with 24-hour trading and local listings.
Even the larger of the new areas serves mainly to hold one or two quests rather than a host of smaller ones, and so they feel linear even as the player is free to turn right or left.
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Even though the world is getting smaller and smaller, very few startups can yet afford to patent or even sell their product in all the relevant countries at once.
"Many families have to move into smaller or older flats, or even factory buildings, " he said.
Many iPad challengers, including the Galaxy Tab and the PlayBook, sport 7-inch screens, making them much smaller than the average notebook or even netbook.
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The grain could be the result of a smaller, closer impact or even a piece of space dust that has drifted down to earth intact.
For smaller companies like AtheroGenics or DeCode Genetics, or even for giants like GlaxoSmithKline without so much skin in the game, it may be much more difficult to keep up.
When there are lots of nucleation centres around, the small drops end up even smaller than usual (ten thousandths of a millimetre, or microns, across, instead of 50 microns).
Casual games and mobile apps provide a new route for small firms - or even bedroom coders - to reach a global audience at high speed with a smaller outlay.
Bottom line: fiduciaries of small plans can be just as sophisticated and just as knowledgeable as fiduciaries who serve large plans even though fiduciaries of smaller plans may pay a higher unit price or management fee for the same services.
Or, let my mother-in-law download just her email at an even smaller price point.
But even that deal was far smaller than similar online-advertising acquisitions by Google or Microsoft.
But even that deal was far smaller than similar online-advertising acquisitions by Google or Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ).
Within this group of people is an even smaller and wealthier subset of people, 1 percent of the top, or .01 percent of the entire nation.
"It is much more useful and informative to do one comprehensive natural-history study rather than numerous smaller efforts, and we encourage people to either pool their efforts or, even better, collaborate on one larger project, " says Sandy Walsh, an FDA spokeswoman.
There is even a suggestion in some surveys that smaller businesses are tempted to use unlicensed security software, or, worse, that which they are offered for "free".
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Thomas Marten ruled that air carriers may lower their prices to deal with smaller, cut-rate competition, even though such tactics could be seen as difficult or even brutal.
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