The reason why many food items find themselves on the "dollar menu" is because of their smaller portions.
Government spending will also rise, because, again, a small portion of the people not enrolling in employer plans will now go to Medicaid or the subsidized marketplaces, where they'll receive some form of financial assistance from the government.
The distribution of ratings will not narrow simply because subjects have a smaller portion of the scale to work with when rating all versions of some sequences.
Because the cost of oil makes up a smaller portion of the price of gasoline, prices here have climbed far more modestly.
While additional regulatory fine-tuning will be needed as the global financial system evolves, we should not cast aspersions on the entire asset class of derivatives because a small portion of them were misused.
The gains, however, weren't enough to turn the tide in Romney's favor, in part because those groups are a smaller portion of the electorate than they used to be.
In particular, the economic impact of tax increases is smaller when they go to the rich rather than the middle class, because the rich consume a smaller portion of their marginal income.
Excess Al and less than a full equivalent of TiC were added because a small portion of Al will be lost during high-temperature processing, and carbon deficiencies exist in most Al-containing MAX phases.
The union claimed it saved a pile of money with mail order but says it relented only because a small portion of its members pleaded for the continued convenience of going to corner drugstores.
John Osterweis, manager of the Osterweis fund, likes Genworth Financial, an insurance company whose stock has been hammered — unreasonably, in his opinion — because a small portion of its business involves underwriting mortgage insurance.
