That is why states with the initiative and referendum process must protect the interests of small businesses whose influence is too diffuse to easily organize.
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It is, he says, like EU referendums in Denmark and Ireland, when politicians from small countries wielded immense influence.
CDU. But the Free Democrats rarely win much more than 5% of the vote, the minimum needed to enter parliament, and their policy influence remains small.
But Ms. Ting says there's a problem with modified market weighting: It gives undue influence to small stocks that may be difficult to buy and sell because they're thinly traded.
Whatever team she puts in place, Miss Megawati seems unlikely to press hard for asset sales from the bank-restructuring agency, for deep cuts in subsidies, or for reducing the government's influence over small business and agriculture.
Small brokerages are fighting the merger of NASD (formerly known as the National Association of Securities Dealers) and the regulatory arm of NYSE Group, contending that the combination would do little to serve investor interests and would significantly diminish the influence of small brokerages in policymaking and other matters.
Small brokerages are fighting the merger of NASD (formerly known as the National Association of Securities Dealers) and the regulatory arm of NYSE Group (nyse: NYX - news - people ), contending that the combination would do little to serve investor interests and would significantly diminish the influence of small brokerages in policymaking and other matters.
In no small part because of the influence of Second City, an evening of humour in Chicago is much more likely to come from improv and sketch comedy than stand-up.
Within this relatively small realm of online-marketing influence, what gets diners excited and into the car to go eat out?
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But Mexico's newspaper market is still marked by its history: with many small papers, none has much influence among the mass of voters.
's interest was considered by analysts to be too small to give the owner any influence, yet too large for many prospective buyers in a tough economy to obtaining financing.
Investigators in Europe, Japan and the U.S. suspect a small number of traders of trying to influence other bank employees to manipulate interest rates such as Libor and Tibor.
When Bill Gates, James Dimon, Nouriel Roubini and Mick Jagger choose to spend five days in the same small Swiss town, what they crave is influence.
In return for a relatively small amount of money, it has gained great influence in Cambodia.
Small firms are to be granted a bit more influence over the industry-wide agreements on pay and conditions that are foisted on them by unions and big business.
The corollary of this is that our influence in how the company operates is also small.
But Prince Alwaleed's relatively small stake in Twitter isn't likely to have such influence.
He also noted that he could influence those bid and offer prices himself with very small orders.
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Mr Martino is one of Italy's few avowed liberals, but his influence on economic policy has, sadly, been small.
We wind up in a place where small but passionate groups of people can wield a disproportionate amount of influence and implement bad ideas that do not and can not work.
The UK, as a "small island nation", had to be part of it to have influence.
But although small shops compete vigorously with one another on price and quality, their influence on big supermarkets is negligible.
Because search advertising revenue is concentrated in a small fraction of high-value search terms, a Google deal could influence far more Yahoo!
This makes small contributions from large numbers of Americans largely irrelevant, and multiplies the influence that the wealthiest Americans have over our political system.
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Countries like to influence their neighbors, and large and powerful countries that are surrounded by small and weak countries are usually capable of doing this.
The small but influential firm buys the equity or debt of troubled companies and then uses its influence to push for restructuring.
Perhaps their short histories and small, discreet offices, which seem slightly out of place when compared with their ability to influence events in the financial markets, cause a certain amount of unease.
Mark Robins of the small-cap research firm Robins Group also suggested Glassman could be making the offer to relieve himself of outside influence.
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