"I'm tired of getting only minuscule bits of information from a school and then having to make a decision based on it," Mr. Stancik said.
And many parents object to being lectured by Londoners like Mr. Oliver, whose angry television show "Jamie's School Dinners" first alerted the nation to the horrors of school food like "Turkey Twizzlers" — minuscule bits of meat processed with many nonmeat products, molded into shapes and deep-fried.
If the Senate approves the new bill, products that use these minuscule bits of plastic will be entirely banned in California by 2020.
"She was saved thanks to a succession of small gestures, a little bit of attention, and, in this moment of total craziness, these minuscule gestures accomplished big things," Torreele said.
That is a minuscule number.
The hefty pasta e fagioli contains not just macaroni noodles but a dazzling diversity of pastas, and the spinach salad is generously laced, not with minuscule bacon bits, but with substantial squares.
He was surprised by the enormous amount of bodily energy required to focus onto a very small spot, and how a minuscule, nearly invisible bit of fuel, once sparked, can quickly amplify into a flame and then a fire.
As usual, PVH's latest is a supreme example of uber-deep techno with five cuts of shuddering kicks, minuscule clicks, and the occasional bit of wispy instrumentation wafting overhead.
Development economists have long surmised that some very poor people may remain trapped in poverty because even the largest investments they are able to make, whether eating a few more calories or working a bit harder on their minuscule businesses, are too small to make a big difference.
