Small household building schemes would no longer need planning permission if they did not impact on the neighbours.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in July announced a pilot program to develop a new housing model for the city's growing small-household population.
Last year saw a record number of bankruptcies: as well as thousands of small firms, household names, such as Mr Kirch's companies, Babcock Borsig, an engineering firm, and Herlitz, a stationery maker, were brought down.
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Because of its small size, the household survey tends to be highly volatile.
Seven months later Mr Dunlap took over at Sunbeam, an American firm that makes small appliances and other household products, and began to apply the same approach.
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But like Burning Man, I can easily see it going from a small group participation event to a household name, becoming a global phenomenon, maybe as early as by next year.
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To the neighborhood shopper then, the small shopkeeper is an extension of their household.
But Mr Poterba says even this suggests an increase in consumption that is small by comparison with the increase in household stockmarket wealth.
The Pope has a small personal staff of nuns to run his household, to cook and clean, and a personal valet or butler.
Small studies by other groups are also finding common household chemicals in babies.
Joe Galli made DeWalt a household name thanks to his "swarm teams, " small armies of energetic college recruits who worked Nascar races, vocational trade shows and hardware supercenters.
While most parents know enough about covering outlets and keeping poisonous household cleaning products locked away from the reach of their small children, most homes still have less obvious safety hazards that can have disastrous results for curious tots.
They complain that even the small hydroelectric plant being built nearby will light only one light bulb per household here.
This resulted in the death of livestock, small harvests and a big drop in demand for labor, cutting into household incomes.
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The same is true of 3D manufacturing devices that allow small-scale producers to get back in the game of producing everything from household goods to complex mechanical proto-types at ever-lower cost.
With household electricity bills continuing to rise rapidly and global energy consumption increasing, a small LED bulb can have a very big impact.
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The 37-year-old is already a household name in India and, thanks to the book, The God of Small Things, she is now well on the way to becoming the talk of the chattering classes in the West.
The ultimate in energy efficiency will come when power producers can turn on and off small substations at a moments notice based on real-time data on energy consumption at a household level, and consumers can make power purchasing decision based on real-time metering of their consumption.
Netflix could potentially charge a small extra fee in order to make multiple streams available to households where the personalized service will make it easier for household members to access content that suits their viewing habits.
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