There are influential people in a small-world network, but this tends to come from connections to an unusually diverse set of people, rather than having an unusually large number of connections.

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If HMV closes down completely, World Music Network and its fellow small labels, queuing up for repayment with the rest of the chain's creditors, might never get paid at all.

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The league drew an average of 269, 000 viewers per game on ESPN2 this season, or a small fraction of what the sports network draws for the World Series of Poker.

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The country now boasts legions of thriving small businesses and a fair number of world-class ones whose English-speaking bosses network confidently with the global elite.

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The app economy is centered in the U.S. in no small part because a decade ago we unleashed fiber optic and mobile network investment, and America surged to become a world broadband leader.

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