And for the typical American family, it is a big deal.
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The risk of developing bunions - bony growths on the big toe - is linked to your family, not your shoes, a US study has shown.
The family is looking for a smaller home as the current house has become too big for them.
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However, the most sensitive challenge she faces is the call for reform in the way South Korea's big family owned businesses, also know as chaebols, are run.
Electrolux, a maker of household appliances and, like Saab, part of the Swedish Wallenberg family's industrial empire, is a big investor in Hungary.
The foray by Big Money into the single-family landlord business is becoming more sophisticated.
Free college tuition for the whole family is an ingenious way to gin up a voting interest toward big government in this right-leaning group.
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With several hundred politicians, diplomats and academics milling around one of the region's capitals, it is more like a big family gathering than an international summit.
On a serious note, the event underlines the fact that big business in Latin America is still largely dominated by family groups.
That economy is a mixture of big cattle ranches in the south, family farms in the north, and around Porto Alegre, the capital, locally-owned shoe, wine, chemicals and metal-bashing industries.
And the family farm is largely a quaint historical artifact: today agriculture increasingly is big business pursued by shrewd corporate operators, who are even more adept at politics than economics.
Prada is one of the few big Italian firms that seems intent on keeping family control, even as it adds brands to its stable.
This new appellation, just over the border from Sonoma, is still largely unknown, but with a big Jackson Family presence it may not be for long.
And today, it's because of these schools that one out of every two wide-eyed freshmen who who arrives on their campuses with big backpacks and bigger dreams is the first in his or her family to go to college.
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The big-wheel trend is a small one that helps designers give even everyday family cars more aggressive, racier looks.
This is a big step forward, and happened in part because of the advocacy of family members whose daughters have died because of teen violence.
Curtis is not totally crazy: a big storm does arrive, and he takes the family into an underground shelter, a space that he has spent a lot of money expanding and making comfortable.
Where sharia poses genuine dilemmas for secular countries with big Muslim minorities is not in the realm of retribution but in its application to family matters such as divorce, inheritance and custody.
It is being headed by the family of the late Michael Marra, who had wanted to establish a Dundee Big Noise orchestra.
It is also hammering out the future governance of Bank of Ayudhya with its other big shareholder, the Ratanarak family, led by billionaire Krit Ratanarak.
But now is the time to get started, and remember to work friends, family, and Angels before you tackle the big boys and set your sights on a windfall IPO.
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