Issues with running water, scarce electricity and more contributed to headaches big and small, according to passengers and their loved ones.
We are all besieged by unending phone calls, meetings, e-mails and text messages, with questions to answer, concerns to address, problems to solve and fires to put out big issues and small, planned sessions and surprises.
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So to Amazon, to Overstock, to every etailer out there big or small, I say take a hard look at your abandonment efforts, or lack thereof.
Then we have a company called Shahmoon TV whose Street Ads use large HD video posters to bring big-screen advertising to small scale stores, enabling businesses to interact with passers-by, feed live information, and communicate directly with those consumers.
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The San Francisco-based organization founded by Brent Schulkin organizes campaigns that harness the collective purchasing power of consumers to incentivize companies, big and small, to become more socially responsibile.
Though he spent his legendary career speaking in front of thousands, VJ managed to deliver a number of very big messages to the small crowd that occupied gapCon.
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Is it so hard to picture this migration: Big-box to small-box, to no-box at all?
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With our training we have been able to perform search and rescue for missing persons, provided rehab to firefighters working fires big and small, run shelters for persons displaced due to hurricanes, and even assisted with assessing damage due to tornadoes and severe storms.
But what's big to a small biotechnology company is not so big for a drug giant, even one that has notable gaps in its drug pipeline.
To ensure that there was ample talent to fulfill demand, actors and directors, big and small, were legally bound to a specific studio, which wrote and shot its movies on its own lots, processed them through its own labs, and released them through its own distributors for exhibition in its own theaters.
And his working party supports tax breaks for equity incentives to lure managers from big companies paying big salaries, to small companies that cannot yet afford generous pay.
My goal was to offer my skills to help find a way for a small organization to make a big difference.
But regulators still tend to imagine that power will flow in one direction only: from big plants to small consumers.
As a consumer, I think we should be able to buy a big soda without having to buy two small ones.
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So there had been progress in that the -- more people now are aware of what the playing field looks like, where the compromises can be found, and what it takes to build upon a smaller package to the biggest possible package, and the hard choices that getting from small to big require.
Labour has already won backing from some large firms for its plan to sign the European Union's social chapter and set a national minimum wage, policies which are likely to be far more damaging to small firms than big ones.
Counterintuitively, the way to get big is to start very focused and deliberately small.
But if they are to succeed, companies both big and small will first have to assuage growing concern over the privacy issues associated with collecting information about people's movements.
And getting that balance right has less to do with big government or small government than it has to do with smart government.
That it is, after all, possible to overcome political resistance to a foreign takeover of a big Italian financial institution will provide some small cheer to investors.
If we do not want firms to grow too big to fail we cannot make it cost prohibitive for small firms to succeed.
Stewart is working on ways to adapt videos to whatever screen a user is viewing, from a small mobile device to a big screen where friends pool their most loved videos for a party.
It still may be impossible to estimate exactly how big (or small) the eventual cost to the drugmaker will be.
If you live in a small city, be willing to drive to a big airport to use an award ticket, since short trips on small jets can limit availability.
And this is all before we set up the exchanges that will allow 30 million Americans to get access to care and will allow small companies to finally get the same deal that big companies get, and people being part of a big pool that gives them a better deal across the board.
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What may make sense to big countries, however, can look dangerous to small ones.
But we are not willing to accept the "my way or the highway" approach backed by Congressional Republicans that asks the middle class and seniors to bear all the burden while the very wealthiest individuals, big corporations and oil and gas companies continue to enjoy big tax loopholes that are unavailable to middle class Americans and small businesses.
Fendi's iPad case is gorgeous, but it turned out to be heavy and too big to slip into another bag easily yet too small to carry wallets, keys and other items.
But also looking at whatever legislation comes out of this process to ensure that our ability to stabilize the financial system and ensure that credit flows from banks and lending institutions to families and small businesses and big businesses through capital and what they need to run their business.
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