If our roulette wheel tilted to small companies leaves you uneasy, play it safer.
This is simpler, faster and cheaper than the lawyer-intensive process of negotiating bilateral licences for intellectual property, the high cost of which discriminates against small companies, leaves patents unused on the shelf and hampers innovation.
But while that leaves only a small share for states to pay, many states have argued it still leaves too much, given tight state budgets.
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In other respects, governing as a large minority party might not be much trickier than governing with a small majority, which leaves prime ministers perpetually vulnerable to backbench rebellions.
In a humiliating blow to the once proud, gas-guzzling Hummer SUV, engineers at GM have re-imagined the poster child for environmental apathy as a completely green vehicle that not only leaves a small "footprint" in its wake, but actually promises to give something back to nature as well.
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Once one country leaves, however small, the fiction that it is a permanent currency union is exposed.
If the Dow Jones stays close to its current level of nearly 8, 000, then the impact on consumer spending may be small, as that still leaves the market 25% higher than in December 1996.
In the wild, adult night monkeys eat leaves, insects and small lizards and frogs.
That leaves farmers and the small towns dependent on them with little voice.
New this year is a small arborvitae with chartreuse-yellow leaves instead of green.
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The plant was small, with spiny, silvery leaves, woody stems and blue flowers.
The coati is about the same size and shape as a raccoon and is omnivorous - eating leaves, fruit, small rodents, birds and eggs.
Fiordland's forests are predominantly made up of beech trees, whose tiny, regular leaves dot the canopy with small, delicate brushstrokes.
Growing AAA is labor intensive: The plants need daily watering, spraying and cutting back, producing a trash bag full of unwanted leaves each week for a small grow.
The company founders were researching how small silicon compounds and calcium could bind to leaves and other organic material to produce fossils.
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The coati is an omnivorous animal and it was likely to be surviving on fruits, berries and leaves as well as mice and small birds.
Inside, keep your body off the ice or ground (the Inuit put their sleeping blankets on top of a bed of sticks and reeds) and create heat-trapping "loft" (it's what keeps you warm in a sleeping bag) by layering a few small blankets or big trash bags, with leaves or crumpled newspapers in between.
That is one reason why he leaves the 5, 000 or so small-time smugglers in this area alone.
When Noamkulaleko Sitole(ph) decided to attend the University of Cape Town, she became a pioneer of sorts, part of the small percentage of young people in her hometown that leaves for college.
At home, in the long hooded cloak she wears as a Druid priest, Cat stands at a small altar on which is the sculpted form of a woman, green leaves and an apple.
In fact, if you make good prudent decisions about the big things like what you drive and where you live, it actually leaves a lot of flexibility to not need to sweat the small stuff at all.
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It is recognisable from its broad, shiny leaves, white flowers and, above all, its fruits that resemble small pomegranates.
Coating the leaves in the vinaigrette, however, is essential as it tenderizes the small cabbages and draws out their flavor.
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That leaves the Allianz ADR, which trades in dollars and pays dividends in dollars, for small U.S. investors avoiding the complications of currency conversion.
At MIT, an auditorium was roofed with a swooping parabolic curve, and the brick walls of a small, round chapel were washed with daylight flowing from a ceiling oculus through the gilded, floating leaves of a Harry Bertoia sculpture.
Sipping lemon-ginger tea on the cushions of our house's rooftop pavilion, I watch the first light spangle the leaves of the poplars along the village's irrigation stream, see lambs herded into a small willow-walled corral, a woman in a black robe and orange head scarf testing her lower back after filling her buckets.
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