Thousands of supporters are bused in -- totally out of proportion to the size of the state -- to stand for hours in massed ranks in the bitter cold, entreating passing motorists at street corners to honk their horns to show support.
Speaking to the BBC's Today programme, Ms Wilson - whose company advises large shareholders on voting issues - said it was the size of the pay-out that was concerning shareholders.
Washington (CNN) -- The Federal Aviation Administration this week is sending out scores of letters to small- and medium- size airports nationwide saying the agency may soon close their control towers because of budget cuts, unless they can convince the government that the action will harm the national interest.
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Germany says the EU should now seek an all-embracing deal, including on the size and scope of the bail-out fund, in time for the next summit in March.
In the color and milling about, my eye picks out a basketball-size cloud of pure white puffiness across the floor, a vision that turns out to be a giant Angora rabbit named Alice.
The bills primarily differ in what a state would have to do to be allowed to collect sales tax from out-of-state vendors and the size of the de minimus rule to exempt small vendors from collection.
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Even legislators who profess concern about the defense add-ons that you will need to propose are likely to support the "out-year" increases President Clinton had recommended, reducing the size of the total plus-up in contention and facilitating the forging of political support for its adoption.
Out-of-the-box, the LeafPresenter provides small and medium size businesses (SMBs) with a feature-rich mobile ordering and checkout device capable of accepting payments via their choice of processor or next-generation payment methods such as PayPal, LevelUp and other mobile wallets.
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Of course, second-lien debt is a niche product for issuers that require higher leverage than is usually available in the first-lien market, but that in many cases are locked out of the regular-way high-yield bond market because of size, credit quality, or complexity.
The armies with the exception of the Congolese government's are small, none of them over 20, 000 strong, and they are spread out over a sparsely-populated area the size of Western Europe, much of it covered in jungle.
"We have this garden zombie -- the size of a person -- crawling out of the ground, " he said.
The deal digs Mr Albanese out of a hole the size of Tom Price, the huge iron-ore complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia in which Chinalco stands to take a stake.
You have to watch your level here because it will blow your hair back, kind of like that guy in that Maxell commercial: we inadvertently woke our roommates up more than once because of the size of the block-rockin' beats that came out of the Zeppelin.
Austin, Texas, which holds the No. 2 spot, also stands out for its low cost of living, varied-size companies and diverse talent pool.
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The problem involves creating a golden-side-up stack of pancakes out of all different size pancakes, each of which is burned one side, with the largest pancake on the bottom tapering up to the smallest on top.
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Without punishment, the computer simulations suggest that co-operation would have died out in groups of this size.
The public scrutiny and press coverage the firm has received over the past few years has also changed the size of the buy-out deals it will consider.
In a statement issued in London, Mr Borodin said he was shocked at the size of the bail-out, and claimed that VTB's takeover of the bank was politically motivated.
Slit open the bag and mist the contents with water, and pearl oyster mushrooms will begin to grow, until they are spilling out the side of the box, reaching their full-grown size in about 10 days.
Connected to a TV and stereo, the book-size HP box draws entertainment right out of the computer and lets you manage it from onscreen menus.
But that leaves another 28m-odd waiting to register, out of a population probably twice that size, most of it in places without the relative efficiency of Kinshasa for running a high-tech electoral system.
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As well as its thriving defence activities, IAI also manufactures a mid-size business jet for Gulfstream and carries out cargo conversions of commercial airliners, a business that suffered during the downturn but which is now picking up.
If big growth is out of reach, do not destroy the value in a healthy mid-size company in a futile attempt to reach for the moon.
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To date, NetFlix still has the largest movie library overall although the size of the streaming-only content is not broken out.
Here you can see a life-size portrait of the lady, her sharp features etched out in profile, a transparent gown showing the curves of her body.
In the past, the premiums they paid into a central emergency-fund for bailing out troubled banks were crudely linked to the size of their balance sheets.
With Asterisk loaded onto a computer, a decent-size company can rip out its traditional phone switch, even some of its newfangled Internet telephone gear, and say good-bye to 80% of its telecom equipment costs.
But AID, which has rarely handled contracts of that size, has doled out only 5% of the total--barely enough to get started on the repairs to Iraq's primary port at Umm Qasr.
Corporate computing started out highly centralized on mainframes and other room-size machines, but since the introduction of the PC has been going through swings between the autonomy of the individual computer user and centralized management by the IT department.
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