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In the United States the Small Business Administration establishes small business size standards on an industry-by-industry basis, but generally specifies a small business as having fewer than 500 employees for manufacturing businesses and less than $ 7 million in annual receipts for most non manufacturing businesses.
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In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.
Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.
National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.
( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.
In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.
Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.
In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.
After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.
`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.
The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.
There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States.
The rise of the giant corporations in Western Europe and the United States dates from the period 1880-1900.
He says: `` beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy ''.
During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.
And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.
`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.
This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.
but Wright stayed in the United States.
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* Federation of Small Businesses, a lobbying group of the United Kingdom
For example, much of the United Nations action to tackle illegal arms proliferation is raised in the UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms.
* Final document in the framework of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms
Hill's heirs established the James J. Hill Reference Library in St. Paul, which is considered by the Small Business Administration the premier source for publicly accessible practical business information in the United States, and many SBA programs rely on the Hill Library's HillSearch service to provide business information resources to small businesses nationwide.
The species is classified a " Small wild / exotic canid " by the United States Department of Agriculture, along with the coyote, dingo, jackal, and arctic fox, and is considered the only species of fox, other than the domesticated silver fox, which can properly be kept as a pet.
The new agency would include the Office of the United States Trade Representative, currently part of the Executive Office of the President, as well as the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the United States Trade and Development Agency, and the Small Business Administration, which are all currently independent agencies.
In Armies of the Young: Child Soldiers in War and Terrorism anthropologist David M. Rosen discusses the murders, rapes, tortures, and the thousands of amputations committed by Small Boys Unit of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) during Sierra Leone's civil war (( 1991-2001.
In 1973, Governor J. James Exon issued a proclamation designating Seward " Nebraska's Official 4th of July City "; in 1976, the city was chosen to host Nebraska's July 4 celebration for the United States Bicentennial ; in 1979, a resolution in the U. S. Congress named Seward " America's Official Fourth of July City — Small Town USA ".
Huntingdon was named by Budget Travel magazine's readers as 5th Coolest Small Town in the United States in a poll conducted by them.
In July 2005, CNN's Money Magazine listed Mequon 19th among its 100 Best Small Cities in the United States, ranked jointly with Thiensville, a village surrounded by Mequon.
Small Brown Bike is a band from Marshall, Michigan, United States that started in 1996.
Saranac Lake was named the best small town in New York State and ranked 11th in the United States in The 100 Best Small Towns in America.
* United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States ( OHRLLS )
The band's following single " Itchycoo Park ", released on 11 November 1967, is Small Faces ' best-remembered song and was also the first of the band's two charting singles in the United States, reaching No. 16 in January, 1968.
Small numbers may be casual in the western United States and Canada.
A. Neville Thiele in Australia, and later Richard H. Small ( who taught and did design work in Australia, England, and the United States ), first comprehensively adapted electronic filter theory to the design of loudspeaker enclosures, particularly at the low frequencies handled by woofers.
The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States ( UN OHRLLS ) coordinates UN support and provides advocacy services for Least Developed Countries.
Founder members include Sheffield Wednesday, Newton Heath ( Manchester United ), Nottingham Forest, Small Heath ( Birmingham City ) and Grimsby Town.
Members of the new Second Division are Ardwick ( Manchester City ), Bootle ( league members 1892 – 93 ), Burton United ( 1892 – 1907 ), Crewe Alexandra, Darwen, Grimsby Town, Lincoln City, Northwich Victoria ( 1892 – 94 ), Burslem Port Vale ( 1892 – 1907 ), Sheffield United, Small Heath ( Birmingham City ) and Walsall.
Darwen and Newton Heath ( Manchester United ) are relegated from the First Division while Liverpool and Small Heath ( Birmingham City ) are promoted.
The 1958 Act officially allowed the U. S. Small Business Administration ( SBA ) to license private " Small Business Investment Companies " ( SBICs ) to help the financing and management of the small entrepreneurial businesses in the United States.
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