From where she stood, her elbows resting on the railing three floors above, he looked, despite his gray hair and beard, like a small child waiting for permission that he was almost certain would not be granted.
Small businesses are waiting for the Senate to act on a bill that would cut their taxes and provide them greater loans and investment opportunities with which to expand.
After publishing its report, NHS Tayside said it was disappointed that "unacceptable practices" had been identified in a "small area" of waiting times management.
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And all the while, small business owners kept waiting for help.
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There is a small queue in the waiting room as she and her dental nurse inside the surgery give one of her young patients a filling.
After every event, there's a small throng of people waiting to ask one more question, get an autograph or have their picture taken with the leading GOP candidate.
Maiman saw him in the lobby of the courtroom after the sentencing and watched him pacing back and forth as he pondered the small cadre of photographers waiting to capture his photo.
My boss-to-be was waiting with a small sign that had my name in large black letters.
The center looks like a generic counseling office, with a few small offices linked to a waiting room.
In the meantime for the month of January, add these to-do items to your small business checklist instead of waiting to work on them later in the year.
And last month, after plenty of political obstacles, after months in which thousands of small business owners across America were waiting for the loans and tax cuts they badly needed to grow their business and hire new employees, I signed into law the Small Business Jobs Act.
But today her application sits in a queue waiting for passage of the Small Business Jobs Act currently before the Senate.
It's a small way of relieving the stress of waiting for news about her husband, Manuel Arturo Sanchez, one of six men trapped inside the Crandall Canyon Mine.
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Some small companies find online hobnobbing more effective than waiting for folks to find their Web sites.
He is waiting for a loan from the Small Business Administration.
For the on-the-go entrepreneur looking to develop the next big app company or small business with a cult Pinterest following, waiting on forming an incorporation or LLC for their dream start-up seems practically pointless.
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In fact, just this morning, a story showed that small businesses have put hiring and expanding on hold while waiting for the Senate to act on this bill.
In attempt to keep them waiting, Stacy took day-old stale pita bread, baked it in the oven, spiced it up and broke it into small bite sizes, which she then served to her waiting patrons.
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The young woman waiting in the arrivals hall looks anxious, her small mouth pinched and unsmiling.
Yet in China, in some small village or large city, there is a charismatic individual waiting.
Some enterprising small concierge companies have emerged in recent years to do the waiting for you in your home for a fee.
In its report on the wider status of waiting lists, Audit Scotland concluded that in a small number of cases patients had been inappropriately marked as unavailable for treatment, but it could not say whether these were deliberate.
There is an annual limit of 140, 000 green cards for employment-based immigrants, so the ceiling means that while immigrants from small countries like Belgium and Guinea have a good chance, the waiting list for citizens of populous countries like China and India can last for decades.
Ever since the hurricane destroyed their home in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Dionne Thompson(ph) and her five children have been sleeping on cots with hundreds of other evacuees in the small town of Gonzales--communal living, no privacy, waiting for a real place to call home.
And there were finally articles in USA Today about how small businesses were holding off making investments or hiring because they were still waiting to see if this thing would pass.
The officials, who would not be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation, also described the small boat as having made a series of maneuvers, but emphasized they were waiting for more details about what exactly happened.
Just from watching people who pull out their BlackBerrys, it seems to us that most of them are hiring it to help them be productive in small snippets of time that otherwise would be wasted, like reading e-mails while waiting in line at airports.
Even while many around me told me not to take the risk of going to a small outfit in Malaysia, I knew at once that it was the exact opportunity I was waiting for.
And, it will benefit thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners across the country, including the more than 1, 000 who are right now waiting to get an SBA Recovery loan.
One of my favorite movies is "Waiting for Guffman, " Christopher Guest's sardonic yet ultimately hopeful 1997 comedy about the fictional small town of Blaine, Missouri, and its against-all-odds attempt to put on a one-day musical for the town's 150th birthday.
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