• One way to size-up the world is to divide people into four categories.

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  • Full-size pick-up, like the Chevrolet Silverado, saw sales rise 15% from May.

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  • Adelman and her partners are putting the finishing touches on their new venture--Size Me Up--which offers an online application designed to give shoppers a quick and easy way to translate their size from one label to another.

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  • In the U.S., by contrast, voters must get to know--and size up--aspirants during the presidential campaign itself.

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  • The 2010-11 Premier League season will see top flight clubs forced to comply with rules over the size and make-up of their squads.

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  • The technique allows statisticians to make guesses about the size and make-up of a population based on only a small sample.

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  • National governments have deliberately stuck to a short brief: to decide the size and make-up of the commission, and the nature and weighting of voting by countries in the Council of Ministers, once the Union is bigger.

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  • Soon after the first of the new reactors becomes operational, in 2017 at the earliest, the new-build industry will begin to add to the size of the clean-up industry.

    BBC: EDF completes UK nuclear line-up

  • 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.

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  • Security camera footage from the aquarium shows the seal making several unsuccessful attempts to scale the barrier fencing, hampered by her sheer size and physical make-up.

    BBC: Seal scales fence to reach pup at St Andrews Aquarium

  • As such, steady declines in start-up size, which stretch back more than a decade, could explain the slow labor market recovery following the previous recession in 2001, as well as today, according to Brian Headd, an economist at the SBA's Office of Advocacy.

    WSJ: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean

  • The MAINGEAR Solo 21 All-in-One offers up to 16GB of DDR3-1600 memory and supports full size hard drives up to 1TB of storage, an mSATA SSD up to 256GB for maximum storage performance, and optional eSATA for fast external storage.

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  • Third objective, to stabilize Afghanistan and the Afghan government enough so that Afghan national security forces could be trained up -- could expand in size and be trained up so that they could gradually take over security of their country, take the security lead.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • To assume that a start-up, small, mid-size, or even relatively large company can universally adopt and apply the business practices of Fortune 500 companies is just not realistic.

    FORBES: Successful Leadership Requires The Right Order Of Operation

  • With its 4.6-inch display, the Ion matches up in size to other large-screen handsets, measuring 5.24 x 2.7 x 0.46 inches (133.1 x 68.6 x 11.7mm).

    ENGADGET: Sony Xperia Ion review: an Android handset with a split personality

  • The oddsmakers at Congressional Quarterly reckon that the Democrats have 199 safe races and 37 that lean their way the size of their current line-up.

    ECONOMIST: Will the Democrats be able to hold on, and for how long?

  • Many stocks have been riding their 8- and 21-day moving averages, giving me conviction to maintain a portfolio approach with a hedge of fluctuating size based on the set-up.

    FORBES: Big Earnings Coming From Google, Apple, IBM, ISRG

  • New to the Cyber-shot line, the TX30 model features a Magnifying Glass Plus mode that zooms in for a fascinating super-size, magnification (up to 15x) of close objects such as fish, plants, insects and more.

    ENGADGET: Sony brings Cyber-shot HX300, WX300 and TX30 to the US with fast autofocus

  • That allows them to take up an incredible amount for their size, making them attractive for the clean-up of pollutants.

    BBC: 'White graphene' soaks up pollutants and can be re-used

  • According to a 2009 study by consumer media research firm Borrell Associates, nearly 60% of small and medium-size businesses that deploy search-marketing budgets through resellers end up canceling their account within a year.

    FORBES: Technology

  • "There is a lack of decent-size acquisition opportunities in catering--Compass and Sodexho have mopped up most of them, " says Bevan.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Just imagine how you'd contend with a vehicle longer than an Olympic-size swimming pool that takes up nearly three lanes.

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  • So by agreeing to a little free access, these big companies are hoping to head off a government break-up of their size and clout.

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  • The result is a compact unit with two Humvee-size primary wheels for one soldier or more and up to a 2, 000-pound pallet of gear, extending with today's technologies into also being a soldier's ready robot - big robot - to take on high risk tasks, scouting maneuvers, resupply or deception tactics.

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  • She's controlling a million-dollar ultrasound machine that is heating up and destroying jelly-bean-size sections of a fibroid tumor that has caused the patient in the next room serious discomfort for ten years.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.

    ENGADGET

  • Airlines have been excited by the Boeing 787 as the first mid-size, long-range airplane, which would allow airlines to open up routes where they don't have enough demand from passengers to justify a larger plane like a Boeing 747 or an Airbus A380.

    CNN: Q&A: Dreamliner woes explained

  • Diagnostics for All, a Massachusetts-based start-up that has developed paper-based diagnostic tests the size of a postage stamp, chose to commercialise its idea in the developing world so as to circumvent America's hideously slow approval process for medical devices.

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  • And that includes, by the way, export promotion not just for large companies but also for medium-size and small companies, because one of the challenges -- I was up in New Hampshire yesterday, and you saw this terrific new company that had just been started up -- it's only got 13, 14 employees at this point.

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  • The workers were making laptop batteries pinkie-size cylinders, to be lined up and encased in the familiar plastic brick.

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