Although small banks offer fewer products than larger rivals, they often do a better job.
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They are also less likely to tip over than larger, heavier vehicles including crossovers and SUVs.
Safety advocates say fertilizer-storage facilities are lower priorities for regulators than larger polluters, like power plants and refineries.
Small prints are ideal for children's rooms because they are less sophisticated than larger prints without being childish.
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Operating margins spread 150 basis points to 55.1% as MasterCard continues to grow faster than larger rival Visa.
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These organization typically employ fewer anti-fraud controls than larger companies, which increases vulnerability.
Research indicates that emerging managers often perform better across asset classes, and with less risk than larger, more established firms.
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Sources have also told me that smaller firms feel more legally vulnerable to complaints about unpaid overtime than larger firms.
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Insight's sales have been climbing 50% a year -- faster than larger rivals CDW Computer Centers, Micro Warehouse or Global DirectMail.
If Britain wants to attract a better class of MP, a more effective measure than larger salaries would be institutional reform.
To Denbow, the best capital allocators are the mid-sized miners, which he thinks do a better job than larger players like Barrick.
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In a 2004 referendum, the north-east resoundingly declined the offer of a regional assembly: as elsewhere, municipal identities are stronger than larger ones.
Jim Chisholm, a newspaper analyst, points out that small local papers have fared better than larger regional ones in many countries, including America.
Injuries caused by small ball bearings, which have been reported by some Boston hospitals, are potentially more troubling than larger shrapnel wounds, Dr. Sarani said.
In this study, which relies on data from the Census Bureau, the authors confirm that smaller companies created more jobs than larger companies during 1992-2005.
Hindustan Lever, a subsidiary of Unilever, pioneered the idea years ago, marketing its shampoos and detergents in single-use sachets rather than larger (and more expensive) bottles.
And as a small regional airline, the company's Embraer jets are more weight restricted than larger planes used by legacy carriers, meaning more bags get left behind.
And in part because small businesses pay higher administrative costs than larger ones, your employees pay up to 18 percent more in premiums for the very same health insurance.
As I recount in my book, The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream, small business (defined as firms having fewer than 500 employees) create more jobs than larger businesses.
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In all this, North Fork is not alone: regional banks have been more vulnerable than larger banks to the flattening yield curve because they tend to be more reliant on interest income.
It seems reasonable that Rackspace will have the most appeal to SMBs because of the value proposition of outsourced and scalable IT functionality, but this segment is more vulnerable to economy swings than larger enterprise customers.
And as a small regional airline, the company's Embraer (nyse: ERJ - news - people ) jets are more weight restricted than larger planes used by legacy carriers, meaning more bags get left behind.
Other managers, including Robert Horrocks, chief investment officer at Matthews International Capital Management, are increasingly hunting for Chinese small caps, which have been harder hit than larger firms over the past two years as banks tightened their lending standards, but are expected to gain as financing opportunities improve, he says.
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"Unlike Greenspan, Bernanke has a beard, so you can't see his whole face, " says Erin Crowe , who has painted more than 50 larger-than-life images of the Fed chairman, several of which can be currently seen at her "Goodbye Greenspan" exhibit at the Broome Street Gallery in downtown Manhattan.
Smaller than the larger and swanker CL- and SL-Class models and larger and costlier than the two-seat SLK-Class, the since-discontinued midsize Mercdes-Benz CLK-Class can be found in both sporty luxury coupe and convertible versions.
Even at that pace, GDP by 2000 will be more than six times larger than it was in 1980.
That bond-buying program is more than 60% larger than the U.S. Federal Reserve's monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities, as a percentage of the economy.
According to the chair of the parish council, Veto Pecchia , the replacement hall would be more than 60% larger than the current building and "right in the middle of a conservation area".
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The current monetary inflation that is the Bernanke boom-bust-to-be is already multiples larger than the monetary inflation that produced the tech bust and, at this point in the boom-bust cycle, even larger than the inflationary surge that gave us the housing bust turn Great Recession.
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