In Yemen, dozens of tiny private generators have sprung up to service households not reached by the inadequate grid system.
His tiny private school, made of rusting sheets of corrugated metal, was struggling - too many orphans, no money, no textbooks.
And third, many of the cuts are tiny by private-sector standards.
In 1998 Parrot Cay debuted, on a tiny, private cay accessible only by boat, and early in 2005, The Palms resort on the "big" island of Providenciales (population: 6, 000) opened, promoting its spa as its centerpiece.
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The operation, E-Quest Partners, is a tiny yet ambitious private equity outfit he launched a year ago with his Venezuelan brother-in-law, Alejandro Zubillaga.
Yet if even a tiny proportion of a company goes private, the company's legal status changes and competitive salaries can be offered to its managers.
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Weeks recalls a trip to Ekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains in October 1996 when she had lunch at a tiny restaurant inside a woman's private apartment in a nondescript building.
Now, the school is home to many American students who wished to enroll at a top-ranked British university, which carries the prestige of an elite, private American college at a tiny proportion of the cost.
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It has extended its trading hours to match other exchanges, and it recently began allowing private investors to trade continuously in tiny packets of shares.
Living conditions in these are basic at best - a one-room family-house with a tiny shed-like kitchen-conversion and often no private toilet - but it is this unusual mix of ancient aristocratic architecture and current-day, salt-of-the-earth locals that gives the hutong alleys their unique character.
Amid the dozens of private art galleries on Insadong street you will find tiny craft shops bursting with creativity (check out the four-storey Ssamzie complex) - look for pale green celadon vases, pen-and-ink drawings and calligraphy, and world-class stitching at Kukjae Embroidery.
And, in any event, the tiny trickles of video from Google's own cameras are already dwarfed by private feeds from billions of little-guy cameras.
In addition, two small groups of carefully selected private investors, one in America and one in London, were sold tiny stakes in return for access to their experience and contacts.
Why, then, does Grassley the tax-cutter want to stick private equity--which includes coastal giants such as Blackstone, as well as tiny Iowa firms such as Aavin in Cedar Rapids--with doubled taxes?
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