Big halls are way better than small grottoes.

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At Jobs Council town halls in Dayton and Minneapolis, small-business owners expressed frustration about the challenges in obtaining financing and assistance.

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Under the plans, the "super hubs" will maintain vehicles, while the small community points, located in GP practices or town halls, will contain rest facilities for staff.

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Other facilities include a small children's library, exhibition spaces, lecture halls, a school for information sciences and a planetarium, this last being a separate, spherical structure poised at one end of the vast outside plaza like an orbiting satellite.

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Small talk before meetings start, coffee breaks, and running into people into the halls all provide a litany of unscripted, unorchestrated interactions that make it difficult for people to package themselves.

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The "clients, " as the small business owners are called, are a different breed from what's usually found wandering the halls of Ivy League business schools.

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