Employment among small-size businesses, defined as those with fewer than 50 workers, decreased by 6, 000.
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If it doesn't, credit conditions will get even tighter for the country's all-important small- and medium-size businesses.
Now she can fit all the plastic waste she generates in one year into a small Ziploc-size bag.
Potential trouble spots include medical equipment and hospitals, Internet service providers and small- to medium-size businesses throughout the region.
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The gains in the small- and mid-size businesses were concentrated in the service-providing sector of the economy, which saw a gain of 109, 000.
The OECD also found that small- and medium-size businesses often held back payments to suppliers or slowed tax payments to try to fill the gap.
And small-and medium-size companies have been the engine of our economy.
Even in the hardest-hit economies such as Spain, Ireland, or Portugal, groups of healthy small- and medium-size businesses and middle-class households exist that constitute good risks.
Parker's top domestic pick is Allegiant Travel, which flies from small- and mid-size cities to leisure destinations like Las Vegas and South Florida, providing service with full-size jets.
One bright note came from small- and mid-size businesses, those with 499 employees or less, which saw employment growing by 84, 000, while large business saw a drop of 26, 000.
Parker's top domestic pick is Allegiant Travel (nasdaq: ALGT - news - people ), which flies from small- and mid-size cities to leisure destinations like Las Vegas and South Florida, providing service with full-size jets.
For the first time in our history our credit markets have been rendered incapable of providing sufficient capital for small- and medium-size businesses, while starving startups and would-be startups of the wherewithal to grow to their full potential.
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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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.
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One of the things that we're looking at is -- medium-size small businesses -- is the ability for financing.
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And at some point Congress will have to clean up the antigrowth messes in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that are disproportionately damaging small and medium-size companies.
Much of that support went to big producers of capital goods like Boeing and General Electric, but the vast majority of Ex-Im Bank transactions are aimed at small and medium-size exporters.
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Half a dozen well-funded shops lead the charge in supplying small and mid-size businesses with fancy digital features that once were available only to rich corporate titans--videoconferencing, always-on Internet access, web hosting and more.
It was in 2008 that Egnyte launched its cloud-based file sharing service, with a focus on small and medium-size businesses.
Stephen Sondheim may be a Broadway baby, but most of the best revivals of his musicals have been mounted in small-to-medium-size theaters and accompanied by chamber ensembles, not budget-busting pit orchestras.
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We have agreed to address a set of next-generation trade issues, including removing frictions in the global supply chains, helping small and medium-size enterprises grow and better plug into the global trading system, and adopting smart, market-oriented innovation policies.
The two giants see their fastest growth coming from small and medium-size businesses in the years ahead.
We hooked up PCs at small to medium-size businesses so workers could share information.
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It targets small and mid-size businesses, a niche often ignored by big insurance companies.
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Instead, he bought shares in small and medium-size companies, which benefit more from growth in Japan.
It also can help supercharge growth, especially in the small and medium-size business markets.
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Introducing several desktops geared specifically to small and medium-size businesses is also smart, Baker says.
The current dehydration has made it extremely difficult for small and medium-size businesses to get needed loans.
There is recognition that if unemployment is to fall then small and medium-size companies need to be helped.
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