• There lived a little boy who was misled by another little boy and this is what he said.

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  • And by spending a little time, and getting the right advice, I found out that I could be a lot more productive with my BlackBerry too.

    FORBES: I Apologize To My BlackBerry

  • The funds that aim to beat a benchmark by just a little and usually fail (after costs) to do so are being retired.

    ECONOMIST: Fund management

  • But Arends does delve into an important issue: no growth in revenue as the volume of actual trash disposed of has declined in the U.S. Manufacturers are using less packaging, consumers are re-using grocery bags, and little-by-little that overwhelming urge to reduce, re-use, recycle has gone from social movement to second nature for a lot of people.

    FORBES: Connect

  • By creating a little bit of competition and a little bit of fun through an internal application, they got much greater participation in that information sharing.

    FORBES: 'For the Win': How Gamification Can Transform Your Business

  • "In a very naive way, the advantage of quantum computing is that by being a little bit of zero and a little bit of one, you can do two calculations at once, " says Raymond Laflamme, a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.

    FORBES: Atoms Offer Giant Leap In Computing Power

  • He believes that the British people worry too much about the damage caused by free markets and too little about the damage done by big government.

    ECONOMIST: David Willetts reshuffles Toryism

  • Roy always said that Pam and Shelley, side by side, looked like Little and Large, because Shelley was tall and thin.

    NEWYORKER: Friendly Fire

  • The wee gadget, spotted by Engadget is a fun and cheap little invention by Japanese company Takara Tomy.

    CNN: A tiny Roomba for your phone and tablet

  • Many scandals have been unearthed first by outsiders with scrappy news sheets and little to lose by way of influential contacts.

    ECONOMIST: Gossip on the web

  • Yet high-speed rail has become an ideological issue, supported by Democrats and opposed by Republicans with little reference to the specifics of any given project.

    ECONOMIST: Don��t sell your car just yet

  • This towering steel-and-glass wedge is a monument to the runaway acquisitiveness of the eighties, and by the time the little monsters have chomped and guzzled (and sung and danced) their way through its cheerless offices and boutiques, Dante and his collaborators have trashed or at least lobbed spitballs at quite a few of the most unattractive aspects of life in these United States.

    NEWYORKER: Gremlins 2: The New Batch

  • This consists, first, of paying too much attention to the upstream development of new inventions and technologies by scientists and engineers, and too little to the downstream process of turning these inventions into products that tempt people to part with their money, and, second, of the belief that national leadership in upstream activities is the same thing as leadership in generating economic value from innovation.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • Make one little error in that little 8 yard by 8 foot situation and it's a catastrophe, he suffers from that...

    BBC: Interview with Sir Bobby Robson and David Davies

  • Yet, the hand wringing, bumbling generals led by a madman and backed by a German public with little appetite for war unleashed the blitzkrieg that would shatter the French and British forces in less than 7 weeks.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: We��ve Only Just Begun.

  • "The Bradley effect this time will likely be overwhelmed by the new registrations and by the shifts in little things, like black Republicans voting for Barack Obama, " Walters says.

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  • The first singles by Stiff Little Fingers and The Undertones got into the charts and stayed there for weeks.

    BBC: Army armoured medical vehicle Belfast 1978

  • But it was roundly criticised by Republicans and had little support among Democrats.

    FORBES: Fiscal Cliff Deal Repeals CLASS Act, Creates Long-Term Care Commission

  • By exercising a little discipline and eliminating down time at work, one could increase productivity by as much as 25 percent!

    FORBES: Pink Slip Or Promotion -- The Choice Is Yours

  • But Cat will earn most of its profit selling the 1, 000hp to 30, 000hp generators used by oil rigs and little Chinese villages.

    FORBES: Sharpening the claws

  • The public, for its part, was well used to both main party leaders by now and showed little interest in getting to know them better.

    BBC: NEWS | VOTE2001 | THE ELECTION BATTLES 1945-1997

  • Meal times at home have all too often become places where members of the family pass by and spend little or no time in contact with each other.

    BBC: NEWS | Programmes | Panorama | The system needs to be challenged

  • But every day, USAID and others are working to help Haiti recover and to rebuild, little by little, over the next months and over the years to come.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by The First Lady at USAID Agency visit

  • Burnley appeared buoyed by their goal and Little fired in a shot through a crowded area after Tony Warner failed to collect a cross, but it was somehow kept out.

    BBC: Burnley 2-2 Millwall

  • Interest rates can range from 15% for secured auto loans to as much as 40% for unsecured loans, appliances and electronics, driven by high demand for loans and little or no credit history for the borrowers.

    WSJ: Loans Surge to Asia's Growing Middle Class

  • Described by publishers Little Brown and Co as "blackly comic, thought-provoking and constantly surprising", there were mixed reviews for the novel when it was published in September, with Rowling variously described as "unadventurous", "bleak" and "brilliant" by newspaper critics.

    BBC: JK Rowling holds new novel

  • Mr Paterson is accused of performing "cleavage-sparing" mastectomies at Solihull Hospital and two private hospitals owned by Spire Healthcare in Solihull and Little Aston, Staffordshire.

    BBC: Woman's breast removal 'unnecessary'

  • Novels and stories always will be put down little by little out of personal feeling and personal beliefs arrived at alone and at first hand over a period of time as time is needed.

    ECONOMIST: Eudora Welty | The

  • In reply, Richards chopped on the first ball but Smith had the West Indies rattling along at around eight an over before he was undone by a delivery that kept a little low and he was well caught by Mushfiqur Rahim behind the stumps.

    BBC: Windies earn win over Bangladesh

  • We had a TV set by then, and the news was of trouble in Little Rock, school integration, black children protected by National Guardsmen, and white crowds shouting abuse at the frightened students who were being liberated.

    NEWYORKER: Mr. Bones

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