Sentences with phrase «of the smaller nations in»

You wouldn't immediately match an ultra-modern crypto currency with farmland investment in one of the smallest nations in the world, but tiny Vanuatu is blazing a trail for the use of bitcoin.

One of the smallest nations in the world, New Zealand, has become a key trading partner with one of the largest, China.

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The agents were particularly interested in the facility's practices when it came to an even smaller subset of those scheduled drugs: the highly addictive pain medicines containing oxycodone and hydrocodone that have been at the center of the nation's opioid epidemic.

Canada might be a trading nation, but we are mediocre traders: in its report on trade, the growth council said the majority of the country's smaller enterprises don't trade at all.

«National Small Business Week is a chance to honor our nation's 28 million small businesses and renew our commitment to fostering the entrepreneurial spirit that is central to the American experience,» says SBA Administrator Maria Contreras - Sweet, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, in a stateSmall Business Week is a chance to honor our nation's 28 million small businesses and renew our commitment to fostering the entrepreneurial spirit that is central to the American experience,» says SBA Administrator Maria Contreras - Sweet, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, in a statesmall businesses and renew our commitment to fostering the entrepreneurial spirit that is central to the American experience,» says SBA Administrator Maria Contreras - Sweet, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, in a stateSmall Business Administration, in a statement.

In mid-June, the nation celebrated the contributions and achievements of small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with the 50th anniversary of National Small Business Week (Nsmall and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) with the 50th anniversary of National Small Business Week (NSmall Business Week (NSBW).

For most of the nation's history, Hispanics have played informal, yet largely small roles in advising U.S. presidents.

California topped the nation in small business filings for reorganization or liquidation: The state's metro areas claimed four of the top five slots on the most - filings list.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

There were high hopes for the G20 when President Barack Obama declared at a summit in Pittsburgh in 2009 that the group would thenceforth be the guardian of the global economy, replacing the smaller Group of Seven industrial nations.

In a report published in February, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page projects the cost of elderly benefits will increase from $ 36 billion today to a peak of $ 142 billion in 2036 - 37 — but as dire as that fourfold increase may sound, that will amount to a relatively small portion of the nation's economy (3.2 % of GDP), and Page estimates that «the federal fiscal structure is sustainable.&raquIn a report published in February, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page projects the cost of elderly benefits will increase from $ 36 billion today to a peak of $ 142 billion in 2036 - 37 — but as dire as that fourfold increase may sound, that will amount to a relatively small portion of the nation's economy (3.2 % of GDP), and Page estimates that «the federal fiscal structure is sustainable.&raquin February, Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page projects the cost of elderly benefits will increase from $ 36 billion today to a peak of $ 142 billion in 2036 - 37 — but as dire as that fourfold increase may sound, that will amount to a relatively small portion of the nation's economy (3.2 % of GDP), and Page estimates that «the federal fiscal structure is sustainable.&raquin 2036 - 37 — but as dire as that fourfold increase may sound, that will amount to a relatively small portion of the nation's economy (3.2 % of GDP), and Page estimates that «the federal fiscal structure is sustainable.»

In the ongoing saga between the nation's biggest banks and small retailers, the courts today ruled in favor of small businesseIn the ongoing saga between the nation's biggest banks and small retailers, the courts today ruled in favor of small businessein favor of small businesses.

Todd McCracken, NSBA president, said in a statement that with many leading proposals containing «penalties of up to $ 75,000 and 10 years in prison,» small business support for nation wide expansion and implementation of the existing program is likely to decrease.

In the ongoing saga between the nation's biggest banks and small retailers over swipe fees, the courts rule in favor of Main StreeIn the ongoing saga between the nation's biggest banks and small retailers over swipe fees, the courts rule in favor of Main Streein favor of Main Street.

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

As a significant contributor to the nation's economy — 40 % in Dubai, and 60 % of the overall UAE economy — the small and medium business (SMB) market is a highly dynamic one with unique connectivity needs that must be supported.

The SMB sector plays an important role in the UAE's well - diversified economy, comprising 95 % of small business and employing 42 % of the nation's workforce.

All this was just a small part of the party that cost at least $ 1 million in a nation where just about everyone ekes out a meager existence.

By 2016, the number of small firms operating in six or more nations will more than double, the report found.

Currently, Minneapolis has the fourth highest concentration of small businesses in the nation, thanks in no small part to the city's variety of financing programs designed to help Minneapolis - based businesses.

The author of Small Giants and co-author of The Knack (with Inc. columnist Norm Brodsky), as well as two books with open - book - management guru Jack Stack, Burlingham joined the magazine's staff in 1983 and has developed an unmatched ability to get inside some of the nation's most fascinating organizations.

The Next Evolution of Marketing can be applied to billion - dollar brands or small businesses, to consumer marketers and B2B firms, in both highly developed markets and developing nations around the world.

Most of its foreign employees and manufacturing facilities were already located in the Caribbean, and Gildan's founder and then CEO Greg Chamandy explained in a press release that the small island nation was attractive because of its high literacy rate and excellent telecommunications system.

They represented the boards of trade and chambers of commerce in cities as large as Montreal, the nation's economic and cultural hub, and as small as Elmira, a newly incorporated town of 2,500 in southern Ontario.

My conclusion is that developments in the global economy during the past 50 years have greatly reduced the economic disadvantages of small nations enumerated for his time by Hamilton.

Wells Fargo, the nation's No. 1 SBA lender 7 (a) in dollar volume for six consecutive years (U.S. SBA data, federal fiscal years 2009 - 2014), established these relationships with the intent of providing small business owners with an additional financing solution that may better meet their lending needs.

The small nations of the Nordic region like Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland have much in common besides cold weather and long, summer nights.

What began as a small, focused Enbridge campaign with northern First Nations grew into a political juggernaut that arguably contributed to the Harper government's 2015 defeat, after the pro-tanker Conservative party lost more votes in B.C. than in the rest of the country combined.

«The highest rated presenter at our Fortune Small Business magazine «Sales and Marketing Summit» — in front of hundreds of our nation's top mid-market CEOs and executives — David cut through the jargon and provided a practical and example - filled presentation on how executives can actually utilize the Web 2.0 revolution to drive business to their companies.»

She is active in numerous outside groups and shareholder coalitions focusing on responsible investment practices including the Investor Network on Climate Risk and the United Nations backed Principles for Responsible Investment, for which she served as the Co-Chair of the Small Funds Initiative Work Stream.

On September 18, 2017, the worst natural disaster in the history of Dominica ravaged this small island nation.

A key sponsor for Energy for Defense II was the APC, headquartered in the Twin Cities and operated by Defense Alliance, one of the nation's three U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)- funded Advanced Defense Technologies Clusters.

APC is headquartered in the Twin Cities, and is one of the nation's three U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)- funded Advanced Defense Technologies Clusters.

She described Beijing's view of these islands as more than just individual small nations, but collectively as an important factor in China's ability to resist Western containment.

Simmons founded CMIT Solutions of South Charlotte in mid-2008, just as the nation's economy was souring and small business owners were cutting their spending.

US small businesses employ 56.1 million of the nation's private workforce, compared with 51.6 million employees in the enterprise sector

Being a franchised network of IT consultants to small businesses, CMIT Solutions is expecting to expand from 130 locations to 500 locations across the nation and from only having units in 32 states to all 50 states within the next couple of years.

In its prime it was the latest Hot Thing in our capitalist economy, transforming what had been a nation of small owner operated stores into gigantic specialty national chain stores with enormous buying power and the ability to price the mom and pop shops out of existencIn its prime it was the latest Hot Thing in our capitalist economy, transforming what had been a nation of small owner operated stores into gigantic specialty national chain stores with enormous buying power and the ability to price the mom and pop shops out of existencin our capitalist economy, transforming what had been a nation of small owner operated stores into gigantic specialty national chain stores with enormous buying power and the ability to price the mom and pop shops out of existence.

The C.D. Howe Institute hosted a small group of thinkers drawn from Canada's foremost leaders in First Nations education on April 15, 2016.

Today, there are thousands of thriving solar small businesses in every state throughout our nation that leverage American ingenuity to ensure that more of us have an opportunity to capture the American dream.

For more detailed explorations of the themes mentioned in this report, stay tuned to the Insureon blog in January, where we'll explore tips for buying the best equipment and furniture; ways women business owners can increase revenue; and how small business looks different in the nation's cities, suburbs, and rural areas.

The raids follow moves by the finance ministry to identify ways to tax the market that has become as big as the nation's small - cap Kosdaq index in terms of daily trading volume.

New Jersey is one of the top five smallest states in size but ranks as the number 11th most populous state in the nation.

Its gold, gas and diamond holdings are few smaller and they're counted by the nation's central bank in its $ 9.7 billion of dwindling foreign reserves, a paltry sum for any country.

While both nations» figures are expected to be positive the concurrency of their release could increase the markets sensitivity to any difference, large or small, and in turn lead to high volatility in the price of the pair.

The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and with it came independence for the small Baltic nation of Estonia.

The majority of the guests of our federal prisons come from the small minority (which is higher outside the cities, in rural Canada and among First Nations) who live in poverty.

It's also one of the smallest states in the nation, clocking in at the bottom 10 for both size and population.

I'm the co-CEO of DRAFT (https://draft.com/), the founder and former CEO of CoachUp.com, the nation's leading sports coaching company, lead investor and Chairman of Athletes of Valor, a venture - backed social impact startup that helps veterans transition from service to career, and a small, early investor in nearly 50 startups to date.

«There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community,» explained Dean Gary Hall in a news release about the windows that include small Confederate flags as part of their interpretation of Lee and Jackson.