Small stores and retail businesses were privatized between 1990 and 1994, however, greenfield investments by foreign retail companies like Tesco, Cora and IKEA had a much bigger economic impact.

" This definition has been adopted by the Small Business Administration as well as by many federal, state, and municipal agencies for the purposes of awarding government contracts to minority owned businesses.

Small groups of whites made brief forays by car into Greenwood, indiscriminately firing into businesses and residences.

Small and middle-sized businesses make up about a quarter of the cantonal economy.

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.

* Small businesses

Small private businesses were allowed and restrictions on political activity were somewhat eased.

Small businesses, such as the “ Effingham Canning Company ” and Potato Barrel manufacturing mills, became big businesses.

* The Small Business Development Center provides workshops and advising for small and independently owned businesses in the region.

Small farms and well-established small businesses remain the economic core of Easthampton.

Small businesses flourished in two strip-mall-type shopping centers in the middle of the area, on land provided by the developers.

Small and middle-sized businesses employ a significant number of people, both in the city as the two municipalities.

OPIC ’ s Department of Small and Medium ‐ sized Enterprise Finance offers qualified small businesses a streamlined approval process and direct loans from $ 100, 000 to $ 10 million with terms from three to 15 years.

Small business loans eventually allow small business owners to make their businesses their primary source of income with 67 % of the borrowers showing a significant increase in their income as a result of their participation in certain micro-loan programs.

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.

Small businesses on Dalrymple Street in Greenock, Scotland

Small businesses are normally privately owned corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships.

What constitutes " small " in terms of government support and tax policy varies by country and by industry, ranging from fewer than 15 employees under the Australian Fair Work Act 2009, 50 employees in the European Union, and fewer than 500 employees to qualify for many U. S. Small Business Administration programs, although in 2006 there were over 18, 000 " small businesses " with over 500 employees that accounted for half of all the employees employed by all " small business ".

Small businesses can also be classified according to other methods such as sales, assets, or net profits.

Small businesses are common in many countries, depending on the economic system in operation.

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.

Small animals such as crabs, snails frogs and small lizards and snakes may supplement the diet, with such protein-rich food often being broken down and fed to the young.

Small publishers regularly releasing titles include Avatar Comics, Hyperwerks, Raytoons, and Terminal Press, buoyed by such advances in printing technology as digital print-on-demand.

Public discourse ranged in tone from organized arguments by tobacconist and medical practitioner John Williams, who posited that " several arguments proving that inoculating the smallpox is not contained in the law of Physick, either natural or divine, and therefore unlawful ," to more slanderous attacks, such as those put forth in a pamphlet by Dr. William Douglass of Boston entitled The Abuses and Scandals of Some Late Pamphlets in Favour of Inoculation of the Small Pox ( 1721 ), on the qualifications of inoculation's proponents.

Before the advent of rock and roll, concept albums had their original heyday in jazz of the early to mid ' 50s with artists such as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, the latter of whom would record numerous concept albums for Capitol throughout the last half of the ' 50s such as In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Where Are You?

Small atoms in some crystals can occupy interstices without high energy, such as hydrogen in palladium.

Small, stable specimens such as carbon nanotubes, diatom frustules and small mineral crystals ( asbestos fibres, for example ) require no special treatment before being examined in the electron microscope.

He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums ( such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin ' Lovers, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice ' n ' Easy ).

His " Own Your Own Home " campaign was a collaboration to promote ownership of single-family dwellings, with groups such as the Better Houses in America movement, the Architects ' Small House Service Bureau, and the Home Modernizing Bureau.

Pictures such as Small Merzpicture With Many Parts 1945-6 used objects found on a beach, including pebbles and smooth shards of porcelain.

After supporting roles in the television series ER ( 1996 ) and films such as Wag the Dog ( 1997 ), Small Soldiers ( 1998 ) and The Virgin Suicides ( 1999 ), Dunst transitioned into romantic comedies and comedy dramas, starring in Drop Dead Gorgeous ( 1999 ), Bring It On ( 2000 ), Get Over It and Crazy / Beautiful ( both 2001 ).

Many impressive objects visible only from the southern hemisphere, such as the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, are not listed.

The Nirvana song " Rainbow Chaser " is thought to be the first-ever British recording to feature the audio effect known as phasing or flanging throughout an entire track, as distinct from occasionally within a song such as the Small Faces in " Itchycoo Park ".

Panspermia proposes that life forms that can survive the effects of space, such as extremophiles, become trapped in debris that is ejected into space after collisions between planets that harbor life and Small Solar System Bodies ( SSSB ).

Small, high-value items such as iPod players or cell phones must be in locked glass display cases, which means the owner may need additional staff to unlock the cabinets for items customers want to examine.

Small seeds, such as fennel and mustard seeds, are used both whole and in powder form.

Small devices, such as hearing aids and watches, commonly use silver oxide batteries due to their long life and high energy to weight ratio.

Small sections of very dark filter glass, such as a # 14 welder's glass are effective.

Small irons heated by a battery, or by combustion of a gas such as butane in a small self-contained tank, can be used when electricity is unavailable or cordless operation is required.

In reaction to these hardships, Waits recorded Small Change ( 1976 ), which finds him in a much more cynical and pessimistic mood, lyrically, with many songs such as " The Piano Has Been Drinking ( Not Me ) ( An Evening with Pete King )" and " Bad Liver and a Broken Heart ( In Lowell )".

Small TNOs are thought to be low-density mixtures of rock and ice with some organic ( carbon-containing ) surface material such as tholin, detected in their spectra.

The band members were five friends from Creggan and the Bogside, who originally drew inspiration from such artists as the Beatles, Small Faces and Lindisfarne.

Small Wankel engines are being found increasingly in other roles, such as go-karts, personal water craft and auxiliary power units for aircraft.

Small molecules generally have few degrees of conformational freedom, and may be crystallized by a wide range of methods, such as chemical vapor deposition and recrystallization.