Gifts from grandma, sure, but today UPS is more about serving the small-lot shipping needs of a nation flowering with eat-and-sleep entrepreneurs.
The secrets: The kind of old-fashioned, small-lot, artisanal distilling all but abandoned by the big Cognac houses, and the added fruit character of the local pinot noir.
But what it gave us, with its short, 200-foot block lengths and small, 20- to 25-foot lot sizes, its direct and easy navigability, is a walkable, personal city at human scale, where every street is an endlessly varied and inviting series of visual experiences, of constantly changing shopfronts, restaurants and buildings of infinite styles and uses.
"A lot of small-business people really rely on equity in their homes to help their small-business credit, " says Eric Seifert, senior vice president of commercial lending at Muskegon, Mich.
Terms like small-batch, micro-lot and ultra-premium get tossed around liberally at times, with even the bigger producers trotting out their own versions of small lot, special wines from their massive portfolios.
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The fact is, small-scale 3D technology needs a lot of work if people like me are going to be able to use it.
We hear a lot about small (usually 750-1500 polled), (often biased) polls run by the mainstream media.
The odd-lot investor, as the small shareholder is often referred, tends to panic and sell in severe downturns, locking in a loss.
And as the odd-lot investor theory goes, small buyers of stocks usually come into the market during the high point, and sell in the low point.
Our engineering team is fairly small, and there are a lot of high-priority tasks that need to get finished.
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My startup, a company called Egnyte that provides hybrid cloud storage services to small- to medium- sized enterprises, requires a lot of infrastructure.
"We are losing a lot of small companies that support medium-sized business like ours due to financing problems, " said Flavio Radice, chief executive of Pietro Carnaghi, an Italian company that is the world's largest maker of vertical lathes.
Now, nothing is free, and it's true that when reform becomes law, businesses of a certain size who do not offer their workers health care coverage may be required to contribute to the costs -- and that makes a lot of small business owners nervous.
Like a lot of airlines, Virgin has small touch-screen displays embedded in the back of every seat.
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Puris and Bernbach now know both worlds, having met with 465 small media outfits, including "a lot of not-so-good ones, " Puris says.
There are a heck of a lot of them - the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis) and the Least Developed Countries bloc (LDCs) have more than 70 members combined.
Sky-high fuel prices mean for a lot of small airlines, competitive advantage is gone, at least for now.
But as a single person with two small dogs and not a lot of stuff, a three-bedroom house is big.
At present, we have around 400 asylum-seekers, which in a small town like Dover is a lot.
The screen may prove frustrating if your games include reading a lot of small text but most Game Boy Advance arcade-style games look and feel great on the Micro.
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Simplicity, when applied correctly, has a more profound and long-lasting effect than a lot of information crammed into a small space.
The odd-lot investor, the industry term given to investors who buy small blocks of under 100 shares, are usually late to the party.
In Germany biogas is already being fed into into the national gas grid and in Sweden and Spain, vehicles including buses are run on biogas, but they still use an awful lot of oil overall and most of the small number of gas-powered vehicles are run on petroleum-gas.
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Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.
So we ran to the airport parking lot, got into her small black Toyota and headed south on I-95.
When working in the past for a guidebook company, I came across a lot of business travellers who preferred the intimacy of these small, family-run guesthouses to the corporatised sameness of a chain hotel.
And while that may not sound like a lot, just think about it -- just think about those small number of votes spread out across an entire state, across hundreds of cities and thousands of precincts.
The issue -- the canard the Republicans put out there is that a lot of small businesses file as S corps, I believe it's called, and under the individual income tax code, 97 percent of them would not be affected by this.
Owners of small firms tend to wear a lot of hats, but might not have the know-how to operate complicated technologies.
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All told, there's a small deluge of new features that could amount to a lot, even excluding new hands-free elements like Smart Scroll.
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