Those businesses that have floated on the market may be mature, or slower-growing, or simply overweight in one sector.
There can't be many self-sufficient drunks in the world, autarkic alcoholics who never once have to burden the off-license but who simply press whatever fruit, flowers or vegetables are growing in their gardens and transform the juices into alcohol.
Over one-third of Americans are now registered as self-employed, becoming small businesses in a P2P economy of professional services and retail, or sub-contractors in growing sectors such as healthcare and data collection and analysis.
She is a member of the Church of God in Christ, one of the fastest growing denominations - black or white - in the country.
Unlike American cities, whose populations are growing slowly or are even in decline, Asian cities are booming.
Or in-house lawyers who are getting ensnared in the growing thicket of federal regulations.
As prices deflated and opportunities shriveled, Japanese grew less interested in either starting or growing families.
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So far as this Court has been made aware, there is no such fruit growing in the wild or occurring naturally in any part of the world.
So firms are reluctant to be the first to close a factory lest it should lead to lower market share, or to forgo investment in a growing market.
This partly explains why food bought from local producers either directly or at farmers' markets is growing in popularity, and why local-food advocates are now the keepers of the flame of the food-activism movement.
Besides Sybase and our mobile device management and app development platform, there are plenty of competing firms (though our position is that most of those are less integrated solutions that will, for large or growing firms, create more cost in the long run).
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Since it is virtually certain that full disclosure of sources and amounts of their conflicting revenues will be required either as a result of growing client sophistication or SEC rule in the near future, firms today are implementing strategic changes intended to blunt criticism once the numbers come out.
That is one of the problems - I think we all think food poisoning is just as normal as, say, in growing toenails or corns and it isn't - it does have a cause and it does have an outcome and it could be stopped if more of us made a fuss.
But those who would appreciate shopping for high-quality clothes in the comfort of your own home or that of a friend might be interested in a growing trend, the Amway-like private clothes sale.
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The only way to remain successful now is by continually moving in to growing markets--even if these markets have little or nothing in common with where you've been historically.
Sales in existing lines are still profitably growing at double (or triple) digit rates, and enhancements keep Apple in front of competitors.
But corn farmers, or indeed any others who want to turn to growing nuts, peaches or chillies for wimps instead, are in trouble.
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For more information on these or others in the show's growing lineup, check out GDC 2013's official Schedule Builder, which continues to add new talks every week.
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No matter how many privacy settings you set on your online profile, there are no settings that allow Facebook itself from viewing it, or saving it in an ever-growing database.
Russia insists it is complying in full with the sanctions, but has expressed growing dissatisfaction with a lack of progress in easing or lifting the blockade.
The talk at the dinner parties in Davos is about how companies can best prepare for the growing volume of information, or how the global health context is in flux.
North Wales Police will also be using the campaign to reinforce Operation Sodium - a campaign which launched during the summer in response to the growing number of young people involved in collisions linked to drink or drug driving, particularly in rural areas.
For all its cosmopolitan ambitions, the governing elite of German business is still made up almost entirely of men in their 50s or 60s, mainly with an engineering background, whose formative experience was growing up in the post-1945 Wirtschaftswunder, where production was king and shareholders were all but invisible.
Then, divers enter the water, working in the nursery or transplanting the growing coral.
Whether either party intends it or not, there is a growing racial divide in the electorate.
Whether women are fans or executives, their presence in baseball is growing.
Many of the ideas are half-baked, idealistic or charmingly flawed but they reflect the optimism about or, at the very least, growing interest in start-ups.
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