• As for T-shirts, a size small, short-sleeved number from Ralph Lauren Sport equates to a medium "Favorite Tee" from Gap, and a size 18 crew-neck T-shirt from Petit Bateau.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As for T-shirts, a size small, short-sleeved number from Ralph Lauren (nyse: RL - news - people ) Sport equates to a medium "Favorite Tee" from Gap, and a size 18 crew-neck T-shirt from Petit Bateau.

    FORBES: What Size Are You--Really?

  • The state pre-schools, however, fall short of set standards for class size and staff-to-pupil ratios.

    ECONOMIST: Despite budget cuts, reformers are pushing ahead

  • Although it is sobering to know the short life of most businesses your size, I believe it is better to know what you are dealing with.

    FORBES: The Ephemeral Micro- Business, What its Owners Should Consider

  • National governments have deliberately stuck to a short brief: to decide the size and make-up of the commission, and the nature and weighting of voting by countries in the Council of Ministers, once the Union is bigger.

    ECONOMIST: Prodi��s new team

  • But ultimately these devices may have a bigger role in developing countries, where full-size medical equipment is in short supply but smartphones are becoming common.

    NPR: Physical By Smartphone Becoming Real Possibility

  • Bill McGuire, professor of geophysical hazards at University College London, has written a book entitled Global Catastrophes: A Very Short Introduction in which he calculates the size of objects big enough, if they struck Earth, to end life as we know it.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Which is the short explanation for why many small and medium size businesses complain that banks are letting them down - and why it has become such an important economic and political issue to stimulate lending to a sector so central to the capacity for recovery of the UK economy.

    BBC: How business can bypass banks

  • The currency swap program is now one-sixth the size of QE2, which signals that short-term U.S. dollar funding markets remain extremely strained.

    FORBES: By Madeline Schnapp

  • They are social phenomena: addictive, fad-oriented and often short-lived, they can also be unequalled in size.

    FORBES: Sorting Out the Clouds

  • It is also nothing short of scandalous to suggest that an animal of that size was 'lethal'.

    BBC: Animal Underworld

  • In short, the empirical experience shows that growth in the size of government comes at the expense of growth in the private economy.

    FORBES: The Policy Value Gap, Part 1: A Fiscal Perspective

  • Given a stick too short to be useful, and a stone of the right size, they chose the stone.

    ECONOMIST: Tool use by non-tool-using animals

  • But through this new work they aimed to investigate whether known cross-cultural differences in body size preferences linked to stress were also mirrored in short-term stressful situations.

    BBC: Stressed men drawn to heavy women

  • Speaking of win-win solutions, watch this short video to learn how Landi Renzo was able to double in size and also support its growth strategy.

    FORBES: Believe The Hype: Natural Gas Is The Next Big Thing

  • In copper, managed-money accounts stayed net-short for a second week in a row, but reduced the size of their position by adding gross longs and cutting shorts.

    FORBES: Speculators Add To Gold, Silver, Palladium Bullish Positions --CFTC Data

  • While the thin girls were wearing shorts, I was wearing sweat pants because my thighs were the size of their waists, and those pants were embarrassingly short because I was taller than the average adult, but still shopped at (pre-teen clothing store) Limited Too.

    BBC: Jennie Runk: My life as a 'plus-size' model

  • Because of its size and limited capacity, SkyRoll is marketed as a short-trip solution and it is, but it is also a long trip solution if you can get by with two suits or jackets, as a second checked or carry-on bag, because you are still going to get the wrinkle free benefit.

    FORBES: Wrinkle Free Business Travel Made Easy

  • The company insists that it is illiquid, not insolvent, but the size of the loan suggests that its problems go beyond a short-term cash crunch.

    ECONOMIST: American finance

  • In short, Jordan, bereft of its famous ruler, will be cut down to size.

    ECONOMIST: Jordan��s new king

  • If JP was recording the position value of each tick of the trading day, the size of the array would quickly exceed the memory limits of most computers in a short amount of time.

    FORBES: J.P. Morgan Did Not Learn Any Lessons From 2008

  • It wasn't -- it's not just about ensuring that there is -- that any compensation should be more directly tied to long-term equity versus short-term cash, but you have to make a strong evaluation about the sheer level and size of your compensation in the environment in which we exist.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

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