Word: small
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reads the papers like a hawk; Tony, not so much. But they are both worried that the days when they could afford an elective surgery with the doctor of their choice may be coming to an end. Tony and Ira ran small businesses in America all their adult lives; they understand budgets. They think the government is going broke - and in their early years, they've seen governments go broke before. They have seen big ambitious government plans do great damage, and so they maintain a deep suspicion of even the best intentions. I truly hope they are wrong, that...
...Party-shot isn't going to send the amateur photographer the way of the switchboard operator. Still, for version 1.0, it is an adequate stand-in at large gatherings, and can come in really handy at small ones, like a family birthday, when nobody wants to be on camera duty. It guarantees that there will be some sort of photo documentation, making it a fairly cheap form of insurance against a lazy or distracted human photographer. It also guarantees, I suspect, a proliferation of even more mediocre photos on Facebook...
With JPMorgan Chase & Co. providing the money and Facebook providing the voting platform (Facebook users logged on to vote and were encouraged to become "fans" of their favorite charities), 100 organizations—including our very own PBHA—emerged as the cream of the crop among small, local charities. Emily M. Parrott '09, a PBHA nonprofit management fellow, told us that PBHA is the only charity out of the top 100 to serve the Cambridge and greater Boston areas. Starting Jan. 15, the association will be competing in another round of voting for the grand prize: a cool...
...terms of overall market size, India remains relatively small with about 1.8 million vehicle sales a year compared with China's 6 million. But the economy of the world's second most-populous country is growing by about 7% a year, offering tremendous upside. There are just 11 cars on the road for every 1,000 Indians, according to a Deloitte report, compared with 511 in the U.K. and 22 in China...
...buyers worldwide shift away from gas-guzzlers to smaller vehicles, India appears destined to become a hub for manufacturing small cars for export, says Shekhar Vishwanathan, deputy managing director for Toyota in India. Toyota has designed a new small car for India, which is slated to start rolling out of the Japanese giant's plant at Bidadi on the outskirts of Bangalore by the end of 2011. Toyota plans to eventually export the car to South Africa and other developing markets...