Their manufacturers will learn the painful lesson that their tablets are too small and increase the size next year, thereby abandoning both customers and developers who jumped on the seven-inch bandwagon with an orphan product.

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The Ion small sedan and the Vue small crossover will be replaced (not a moment too soon) late next year, and then Saturn will get at least one other small car.

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It is also too small: it abates only 330m tonnes of CO2 per year, and billions of tonnes must be cut.

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It is also too small: it abates only 330m tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, and billions of tonnes must be cut.

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But for a lot of schools that are too small or academic to contend for the big matchups that come after New Year's, this bit of gridiron is the only post-season play to shoot for.

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Another mark of quality: For four consecutive years, Infosys has ranked on our listing of the world's best small companies (though it might not qualify this year, because it may have become too big).

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Inadequate in the smaller Jetta and a cruel joke in the Passat, the 2.5L will be replaced with a small-displacement gas-turbo engine for model-year 2013, and not a second too soon.

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The government used to ring-fence money for road safety, but the pot was too small to meet demand - Manchester alone has 500 traffic calming bids, and can only do a handful each year.

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In a sign no Google effort was too small to go unnoticed by Microsoft, John Sampson, a director of Microsoft's federal politics operations, last year urged at least one member of Congress from Washington state not to support a Google event in Seattle last year called "Get Your Business Online" that catered to small businesses.

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