Small wonder that Happy Halloran detested the Navy and its spokesmen.
Through his extensive world travels, Dlish creator Verge Manuel made two keen observations: that people without deep pockets will still shell out for flavour indulgences, and that small baked items make people happy.
Nevertheless we are very happy to take these small steps together with innovative companies.
Most are happy to keep it small to stay manageable, grounded and fun.
What makes Dearing happy is working with small start-up teams on projects that matter to the world, with people who are underdogs.
Slovenia is such a small country and I am very happy and proud I can take this gold medal back with me.
But I have just flown across the greatest country that ever was, in my own small airplane, and I feel insanely happy.
At one extreme are companies such as Zappos, the online shoe retailer, that obsess about keeping even small-ticket, occasional customers lastingly happy with their purchases.
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The romantic model being promoted by Time and agri-intellectuals like Michael Pollan hearkens back to European and Tolstoyan notions of small family farms run by generations of happy peasants.
But being a "small D" democrat, I'm happy to report that the veil of privacy surrounding penthouse living is finally being lifted in a new book titled "Up On the Roof" (Princeton Architectural Press).
Sometimes the motive is nothing more than keeping a good customer happy following a miscommunication involving a relatively small sum of money.
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But as more portable devices--like digital cameras and camcorders--come with FireWire capacity, the Windows machine cartel may consider small concessions too keep the high-end digerati happy.
If future experiments prove that such genes are essential to the bacterium's happy existence in the gut, then small molecules might be administered to block this pathway and make El Tor's life rather more difficult.
I'm happy to defend the need to provide small businesses an ability to pool so that they can have the same purchasing power that the big companies have and drive down their premiums and drive down their rates for their employees.
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"It's unbelievable that my parents were happy back then when they were allotted their small apartment, " thinks Sarah Stotzner.
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This year's list of the Best Small Companies is a good place to mine lessons for happy--and not so happy--marriages.
The happy result: a more level playing field between small and large businesses.
However, he stressed the gene was only a small part of the process - there are many different ingredients to a happy marriage.
It is notable, too, that Poland's new prime minister, Jerzy Buzek, is happy to trace his ancestry back to the country's small Czech minority.
However, small companies and the huge infrastructures and economies of handset manufacture have often not been a happy combination.
Happy Now tells the story of a policeman (Gruffudd) who arrives in the small Welsh town and becomes involved in the unsolved murder of a girl 14 years earlier.
Mr Ebner would have had only a small role in the merged group, one theory goes, which is why he was probably only too happy to see the deal fail and played his part in ensuring that it did.
After meeting with President Obama, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House leadership several times, I am happy to say that significant progress has been made on making sure that health care reform is good for small business and good for the economy.
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