He dreams of a newspaper group with a tiny core of journalists whose copy is adapted for use across a swathe of papers, upmarket and downmarket, regional and national.Mr Montgomery has put some of this theory into practice.
The myth has staying power because there is a tiny core of truth within it.
Money must be "shorn of its specious promise" he says; let the state underwrite a tiny core of deposit-taking banks.
Mansion tax objections show how much the national discourse is controlled by a tiny core of London homeowners, oblivious to everyone and everywhere else.
The second variable in Apple's profitable secrecy is that beyond a tiny core of intrepid investigative reporters, there isn't exactly a revolution brewing over demands for greater disclosure.
Most of the mass must be concentrated in a tiny core, now called the nucleus, with the electrons hovering around it.
Unless temperatures are extremely cold, raindrops don't just form in thin air; molecules of water vapor must actually aggregate around a tiny core.
So far it is only used by a tiny hard-core of geeks, but it too has shot up in price of late.
They settled for a tiny fraction of that.
Raw inspiration accounts for a tiny fraction of the effort needed to be constantly successful.
