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Larry R. Holden, the president of the Medical Device Manufacturers Association, a trade group that represents small medical supply companies, expressed less support for Novation's reforms than for Premier's.

But amid the turmoil involving the major players, most of the country's smallest banks are doing well, in large part because they did not get into subprime loans, said a spokeswoman for a trade group that represents small banks.

"There is a formula that will allow it to grow and shrink according to economic needs," said Tamar Jacoby, the president of ImmigrationWorks, a group that represents small businesses on immigration matters.

But for the moment, most of the country's smallest banks are doing well, in large part because they, like the bank here, did not get into subprime loans, said Karen Tyson, a spokeswoman for the Independent Community Bankers of America, a trade group that represents small banks.

The commission initially made light of the complaint against its clearance of the Sony BMG merger when it was lodged, 18 months ago, by the Independent Music Publishers and Labels Association, a lobby group that represents small record companies.Will Neelie Kroes, Mr Monti's successor, now have to reform the commission's merger regime still further?

The blue area that represents small variance tends to be wider.

The National Federation of Independent Business, a powerful lobby that represents small-business owners, said such mandates amounted to a job-killing tax on small companies.

"She has a very strong background in enforcing competition rules against dominant firms," said Ilsa Godlovitch, the legislative affairs director of ECTA, a Brussels association that represents smaller telecommunications companies.

Good luck, says Matthew Polka, a former cable operator and president of the American Cable Association, a trade group that represents smaller cable companies.

McDowell said he was abstaining because his previous employer, CompTel, a trade group that represents smaller telephone companies, had lobbied against the merger.

Because census districts are often equivalent to school districts that represent small communities distinct from one another and the relatively small size of the neighborhoods the dilution of neighborhood effects is minimized.