Alsatian wineries tend to be family run, intimate operations and production is almost always small lot and high quality.
Small, highly automated metal or plastic parts in small lot sizes.
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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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.
This small braying lot was to produce the mules that the conquistadors rode across two continents, their offspring arriving in Mexico ten years after the defeat of the Aztecs.
There are a lot of small businesses that make a lot of really bad decisions.
It is energy dense, it carries in a small volume a lot of usable energy.
After all, most of the capital then came from the state, and stockholders were a small, undemanding lot.
In summary, the entire family uses this small business a lot.
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The biggest challenge that I hear from small businesses right now actually has to do with financing, because a lot of small businesses got their financing from community banks.
There were a lot of small residential developers who turned to real estate as a sideline, so there are a lot of apartments on the market right now.
And bundlers are people who bring together a lot of small contributions into a big bundle.
And a lot of small businesses are just going to drop their coverage altogether.
That, as strategists will readily recognise, is pinning rather a lot upon small stirrings.
There are a lot of small businesses that are hungry for loans out there right now.
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We hear a lot about small (usually 750-1500 polled), (often biased) polls run by the mainstream media.
Overall, though, small companies have a lot to gain and little to lose from hyping their products.
"A lot of small firms don't realize that they're ultimately liable" for fraudulent payments, Mr. Faulkner adds.
Now, there aren't a lot of small businesses across the country that are making that kind of money.
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Sky-high fuel prices mean for a lot of small airlines, competitive advantage is gone, at least for now.
It will buy a lot of small things to build the social Internet.
Microfinance encourages the poor to save but, unlike the Grameen Bank, BRAC also lends a lot to small companies.
Marketing is one of those tasks that a lot of small businesspeople think they can, or simply must, do themselves.
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Senator BARACK OBAMA (Democrat, Illinois, Presidential Candidate): We had an awful lot of small town mayors at the Democratic convention, I assure you.
You've got a lot of small business owners who are ready to grow, ready to hire, but they just can't get financing.
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And a lot of small businesses are still having trouble getting credit.
The police knew Mark, as he had had a lot of small accidents, but they also knew him by name and reputation.
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Science and NASA are big business for a lot of small businesses.
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But these are tough times for a lot of small business owners.
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