But Goldman was still a fairly insignificant firm, in a business then considered sleepy and disreputable, when John decided to join in 1950, straight out of Harvard Business School.
One of the authors of a 1982 magazine article spouting the benefits of saving neighborhoods by putting more officers on foot patrols and focusing on issues that might appear insignificant in a city with one of the highest crime rates in the nation is working as a consultant on the project.
Rather than lightly hinting at a dollar fix, Paulson should recognize that the dollar is utterly insignificant except as a measuring stick that facilitates the wealth-enhancing exchange of goods.
On Sept. 11, 2001, America learned that a seemingly insignificant far-away country could turn out to be a major threat to our security.
In the end, even those differences may be too insignificant, and a hiring manager may have to simply go with their gut.
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"It was like my emails were somehow less official, " said Mr. Sinclair, who thinks disclaimers are legally insignificant and wrote a 636-word satirical one for the humor website McSweeney's.
It is also common for teachers to spend a not insignificant amount of their own money on materials for their students and there are at least a few training sessions they are expected to attend during the summers (on their own time).
In one case, a major content brand was notified that its PageRank had been dropped because of a nearly immeasurable, statistically insignificant, certainly inadvertent error on a few pages.
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Most of the foreign press corps in Australia covers the immigration issue not as a numbers story - for, globally speaking, the tally of unauthorised arrivals is fairly insignificant - but as a reaction story: why does such a comparably small issue generate such a big and angry national debate.
Ghosting through these orange-lit Mallorcan villages, the R potters with sublime ease, riding better than a standard Cayman S, despite being lowered a not-insignificant 20mm, failing to graunch over speed bumps, sucking lumps into the dampers like a tiny, perfect magic trick.
In Florida, Obama holds a statistically insignificant 2-point lead over McCain, 46 percent to 44 percent.
This may seem like a fairly insignificant step toward saving money, but the principle behind it isn't.
Three days after that much-hyped event, Gore led by 46 to 41 percent -- a statistically insignificant difference.
It would not be treating Somali piracy as a strategically insignificant nuisance.
After all, Syria is one of the few strategic partners Russia has left in the region, and a not insignificant buyer of our arms.
For the United States, Central America is a near neighbour, a source of migrants, a transit corridor for drugs and a not insignificant trading partner.
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In the course of taking from everyone to give back to everyone, the entitlement state reduces the total amount of income by a not insignificant amount.
It took decades, but that simple, seemingly insignificant transmission set off a global epidemic, or pandemic, that so far has killed or infected tens of millions of people.
It also allowed IAEA inspectors to enter its heavy water plutonium production facility in Arak - a largely insignificant concession since the plant won't be operational for two years.
He fears them because, though numerically insignificant, they are a powerful economic force: farming and related industries have in the past accounted for more than half of Zimbabwe's gross domestic product.
Regardless of how insignificant Norway is as a world player, it could distort the Western European perception of reality in South America in the same way it has done in the Middle East.
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How dare they say as they do, this was a very small insignificant amount of Mercury.
The issue is whether it will have a significant or insignificant impact on the business and its operations.
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Bill Bradley manages a tie with McCain, and loses to Bush by a statistically-insignificant 49 percent to 47 percent margin.
Now that there is a not-insignificant chance that Newt Gingrich will become president, we should consider what that might mean.
"Nobody in the history of mankind has ever experienced the Earth as a pale, insignificant blue dot in the sky, " he said.
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Sadly, a not-insignificant portion of those receiving benefits do exploit assistance programs.
In that moment I saw how everything we do, even the things that seem most insignificant cleaning up a mess or wiping our hands affects everything and everyone else.
The media landscape is so utterly fragmented today that it is possible to look ridiculous to most observers while commanding the devotion of a not-insignificant slice that will support you 100% no matter what you do, because they love you or what you claim to stand for, or because they despise your enemies (see: Sarah Palin supporters).
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