But the company's profit still rose as a result of a smaller provision for tax payments during the quarter.
When, in 1924, her father died suddenly, leaving small provision for his family, a fairy godmother came to Alicia's rescue.
After five years at various jobs, he returned to Glasgow and opened a small provision shop, whose success led him to open other shops throughout the United Kingdom.
"This regulation could be modified or reversed, especially if Republican leaders try to use this small provision to perpetuate the 'death panel' myth".
The businesses that opposed the $7.50 wage, represented mainly by the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, challenged a small provision in the proposed living-wage law that would allow those enforcing a living wage to have wide "access" to a workplace.
In a small provision in the budget bill, Congress agreed to allow banks to house their trading of swaps and derivatives alongside customer deposits, which are insured by the federal government against losses.
A small provision buried within the Workers' Compensation Act, a bill before the Illinois state senate, could wind up as a big headache for Chicago's retired football stars.
Even Bush called on Congress yesterday to temper one small provision in last year's energy bill that offered oil companies a quick tax write-off of the costs of oil exploration.
… The picture of such huge expenditures of money and effort for construction, with not even a small provision aimed at technical progress, is heart-rending to the creative scientist, engineer, or industrialist, who has come by experience to realize and to take advantage of the permanent value of research.
The pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare coupled with a small provision buried in the law could give Republicans in the new Congress the opportunity to power-boost free-market health reform.
Today's decision was about a different, much smaller provision of the bill, known as the millionaire's amendment.
