• American capital markets are far and away the most liquid and efficient in the world, despite a minuscule national savings rate and a tax policy that swerves between counterproductive and comical.

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  • Bronfman still owns a minuscule piece of the Marlins and even received a token World Series ring for the 2003 championship season.

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  • Step by step, Sara ended up on a fourth round of chemotherapy, one with a minuscule likelihood of altering the course of her disease and a great likelihood of causing debilitating side effects.

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  • Five games is not a minuscule sample, and to watch the Knicks in this past week is to witness a sad team transformed.

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  • In the US, BBC America will ask fans to wait just six hours after the episode is broadcast in the UK before screening it across the continent, a minuscule timescale when you look at the wait some television series have to wait to get a cross-Atlantic screening.

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  • There has long been a minuscule Jewish presence in India, happily encountering no anti-Semitism.

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  • As light from the sun hits the sail, it imparts a minuscule but continuous acceleration.

    ECONOMIST: A satellite that tidies up after itself

  • Tumblr, which will remain based in New York, has a minuscule 175 employees, compared with Yahoo's 11, 300.

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  • Only the Czech Republic saw revenue fall by a minuscule 0.5%, as crisis encircled the globe in 2008.

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  • Cloistered in a corner of the web in 90-minute segments beginning at midnight, these debates are reaching a minuscule audience.

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  • That left it a minuscule 0.28% from its record, which it set as the financial crisis was warming up in October 2007.

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  • They are the darlings of collectors eager to buy what only a minuscule cadre of connoisseurs will even recognize, let alone can afford.

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  • When the year began, the domestic producers were estimated to have a minuscule 3% of the market, although it may have doubled since then.

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  • India's exports to Pakistan are surging, by over 30% a year, but from a minuscule base (garlic crosses the border in the picture, below).

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  • Even the largest universities command a minuscule share of the market.

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  • Its four tournament opponents shot just under 29 percent from the field (61 of 211) and a minuscule 15.4 percent (14 of 91) from behind the arc.

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  • Seth Shostak, an astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, speculated in 2011 that there could be 30, 000 habitable worlds within 1, 000 light-years of Earth, a minuscule distance by galactic standards.

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  • Her big message in the Facebook IPO S-1 document is that the Web is still proportionately still a minuscule amount of advertiser spend per time spent on it compared to TV.

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  • Certainly in the long history of egregious or bonkers pay policies, Aviva looks by no means the worst - though it is one of a minuscule number ever to have lost these votes.

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  • Painted on a minuscule panel, it might be one of the haunting works he produced on pieces of wood cigar boxes while confined in a mental hospital during the years preceding his death in 1919.

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  • As with tainted spinach or lettuce--and even though, as a proportion of the whole, only a minuscule amount may be bad--no one will buy any of it until it's known where the bad produce is.

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  • This unique feature enables LFTRs to consume their fuel so thoroughly that they can even use the spent fuel from other reactors, cleaning up our legacy of nuclear waste while producing a minuscule amount of waste themselves.

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  • Given their abundance, neutrinos with even a minuscule mass would account for much or all of the so-called dark matter of the universe stuff that astronomers know is there because of its gravitational influence, but cannot actually see.

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  • Despite the ongoing EBITDA expansion, the loan default rate has ticked up to 0.56% this year following bankruptcy filings and out-of-court reorganizations by Coach America , Tensar, Hawker Beechcraft, and Bicent, from a minuscule 0.21% at year-end.

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  • As a result, field trials with these plants are 10 to 20 times as expensive as experiments with virtually identical plants modified with less precise, conventional techniques, so only a minuscule fraction of potentially important plants developed in university and corporate laboratories ever make it into field trials.

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  • Theoretically, budgeting would mean that adopting a new nanny-state regulation that may offer a minuscule improvement in safety would be directly weighed against the much greater and more cheaply achieved benefits of (just for example, there are loads of them) painting white lines down the middle of unmarked public country roads.

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  • Demonstrating the fallacy of the Keynesian dogma that government should increase spending and deficits to cure recessions, the Harding spending cuts yielded large surpluses (used to pay down World War I indebtedness), and yet, by 1922, GDP was rising and unemployment falling, plummeting to a minuscule 2.4 percent by 1923.

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  • In this, the stream of video and audio data is recorded as a series of minuscule spots on the disc's surface that have been gently fried by a laser beam and turned from their normal crystalline condition to an amorphous state that has different reflective properties.

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  • Development economists have long surmised that some very poor people may remain trapped in poverty because even the largest investments they are able to make, whether eating a few more calories or working a bit harder on their minuscule businesses, are too small to make a big difference.

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  • When you are trying to hit the ball on a sweet spot that is minuscule to begin with, playing shafts that are a half-inch too long or short will make this nearly impossible.

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