It is often small decisions – whether made or deferred – that shape health care costs and quality.
The room is often small and sometimes it is uncomfortably warm or cold.
In customized or flexible manufacturing systems, the collected data used for analysis is often small.
Inter-class variation is often small (many cars look alike) and may be dwarfed by illumination or pose changes.
And in many aviaries, hens have access to outdoor space, though it is often small and hard to reach.
But in chess, the margin between a No. 1 seed and most of the field is often small, and the top player is usually not the prohibitive favorite.
By Erin Overbey November 19 , 2012The writer Brendan Gill once said, "It's in the nature of The New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention".
A bench press is often small enough to be picked up manually; but the press that stamps out the roof of a car is generally about three stories high and capable of exerting tons of force.
Indeed, it is often small agencies that come up with clever ideas: the subservient chicken was not the brainchild of Madison Avenue, but Crispin Porter & Bogusky, a mid-sized agency in Miami.
The writer Brendan Gill once said, "It's in the nature of The New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention".
And it is often small things he looks for objects associated with a particular place, researcher or event.Collections of computers, and domestic appliances such as television sets and washing machines, are growing especially fast.
