Small-time frauds claiming to sell pre-IPO shares of companies like Facebook have already surfaced, according to the SEC.
He pioneered door-to-door stock sales as a means of raising capital from from small-time investors.
To grow, we wrote, the online auctioneer had to reach beyond small-time merchants--without abandoning them.
Rivera was a small-time hustler who had a history of promoting tires-to-energy schemes, among other things.
The challenge was to persuade Giuliani Partners to associate itself with a small-time rent-a-cop company.
Nottingham's gunmen mostly fit the pattern of small-time thugs as opposed to disciplined gangs.
Masterminding that human bazaar was Sheikh Hussein al-Zubayi, a small-time religious figure at a Baghdad University mosque.
When Fusaro Sekiguchi, a small-time Nagoya manufacturer, founded the firm in 1974, lifetime employment was a birthright.
That is one reason why he leaves the 5, 000 or so small-time smugglers in this area alone.
Their forebears were small-time professionals, provincial lawyers, factors or land agents, a surgeon, a chaplain, even an archbishop.
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Their methods tend to be less subtle (and their fees higher) than those of the old-style small-time operators.
The Bloomberg report almost commends Alibaba management for their sober analysis and desire to look out for small-time investors.
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Who knew that a crew of pathetic, small-time real estate salesman (that's Glengarry Glen Ross) could be so heart-wrenching?
Self-defense has increasingly put patents out of the reach of the small-time inventor.
Kael was a small-time movie critic who had recently arrived from Northern California.
An entrance of big foreign supermarkets, she said, would hurt small-time Indian retailers.
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Small-time moneylenders that competed with the church, were often denounced for usury.
Amandio Micolino, a small-time rancher, is reforesting river margins as required by law.
Hiring such a small-time outfit should have been something that internal compliance at PFGBest should have recognized as a problem.
For some in the working class here--the random cab driver, small-time actor, bellhop--Slim's fat-cat wealth is reason enough for suspicion.
The network griped about the dwindling audience and small-time advertisers that were pitching products for body odor and jock itch.
In Mexico's new political order, then, small-time rebels like Alvaro may be more in tune with reality than his hardline leaders.
In this French gangster drama from 1962, a small-time hood, Maurice Faugel (Serge Reggiani), returns to circulation after four years in jail.
It will consist of larger mechanized fields and less small-time family farms.
Smart foam tech might get us closer to those admittedly small-time dreams.
Feng Xiaoyuan, the former chief of animal husbandry, represented the small-time operators.
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The painful paradox for Ebay is that in order to maintain an upward trajectory, it must move beyond these small-time merchants--without abandoning them.
While some Indian consumers still prefer to have their furniture custom-made or go to small-time retailers, many appear to be embracing the one-stop-shop concept.
If a major columnist at The New York Times decided to critique some small-time political blogger, their target would be at a huge disadvantage.
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While Web news sites may be sapping big-city dailies' circulations, small-time papers are thriving by covering school board meetings, town festivals and school lunch menus.
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