Those relatively smaller chains are feeling even more of a pinch than national giants like Macy's and J.
Therefore, what you get over the short term is more money chasing a relatively smaller amount of shares.
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First, the in-house funds might be relatively smaller in size to third-party funds.
Analysts say that Singapore tends to limit bank entrants in the city-state given its a small market and relatively smaller population.
As his relatively smaller tech investments in such companies as Amazon.com and Priceline tumbled, Citigroup's stock climbed 12% over the last year.
That translates into more money chasing a relatively smaller number of shares.
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This is because hardware constitutes a relatively smaller portion of our price estimate for IBM, making its stock value much less sensitive to changes in server forecasts.
Admittedly these smaller firms are much harder to learn about and the numbers of new hires they make each year are relatively smaller than their larger, more established competitors.
Pakistan's former foreign secretary Najmuddin Shaikh said even when the Kashmir issue is being discussed, the two sides can try and address other relatively smaller disputes to create a conducive atmosphere.
Since the board is forced to reduce overall Medicare spending by focusing only on these relatively smaller segments of Medicare spending, the cuts would have to be very deep to achieve overall per capita spending reductions.
The problem here is even if JBL is successful, it will continually run the risk of seeing its customers sucked into the huge FLEX and Foxconn machines that are designed to run profitably at lower operating costs than JBL can present at its relatively smaller scope and scale.
Relatively compared, smaller companies like Sovos Group, Dachis Group, Lithium Technologies, and others have had more time to specialize in this area, and build a following.
Hollywood.com's Paul Dergarabedian added that it is a relatively weak Christmas for blockbusting movie openings, allowing smaller films with Oscar potential to do relatively well.
Some franchises in smaller markets are relatively weak and unable to afford high-priced players.
Some 40% smaller than the relatively new Micro-SIM standard, there has been a lot of debate around this new form factor.
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It was a smaller outfit and relatively unknown, and, judging by the pictures, its head had easy access to the production lines.
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At that point you'll have a larger number of people going into retirement and a smaller number, relatively speaking, available to support the needs of the aging population.
Some smaller banks have relatively few competitors within their borders.
But in a statement to the stock exchange on Friday, Faroe said extensive modelling since then had confirmed "relatively poor oil quality, smaller than expected resource size and limited access to infrastructure".
The company said it had found relatively poor oil quality and a smaller reservoir size than expected at its Fulla prospect.
Both phones have the same WVGA (800 x 480) display, although the 620's smaller screen made the relatively weedy resolution less of an issue.
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Strategically focused patent portfolio development is a key process in protecting intellectual property and one that may enable a smaller player to have relatively large leverage in an industry, because it can obtain an asset of value to a competitor.
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Still, the 2.7-inch Clear Photo LCD plus-powered touchscreen display, HDMI output, and relatively compact size (26% smaller than the HC1) may actually help this cam live up to Sony's hype and become the first consumer-oriented HD model to the gain a foothold in the coveted soccer mom demographic upon its April debut.
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The reasons: On the smaller screens, ads are relatively bigger and more intrusive, so not as many can run.
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That's a lot of users but IDC's regional analyst Peter Hitchen rightly points out that places like China and India remain relatively poor alongside longer-standing but smaller Net populations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan and Australia.
There are, of course, a handful of smaller firms whose performances have been relatively impressive.
Two smaller markets are for people living in relatively unpopulated corners of the globe who need a basic mobile service or semi-fixed pay-phones.
Because the bond program is so much smaller and more obscure, it was relatively easy for it to become collateral damage in the sequester.
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Breaking down the UK-wide sample into sub-samples for smaller areas shows that where bills are relatively low - Scotland and Northern Ireland for example - respondents appear to be even more willing to pay a bit more.
The Indonesians' relatively recent arrival on the scene, together with their smaller numbers, makes them especially exploitable.
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