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"You are a young woman who owns a small business. Over the past four years, you have had stomach problems. Whenever you traveled for work, you would have to stop to have a bowel movement. Your bowels were moving three to four times a day. Although you had no cramps, you did have a foul odour to your stool. You had been feeling a lot of stress with work and also about your digestive issues because they were embarrassing. You had to plot your tra vels along with known pit stops that had a washroom. You decide to check in with a local Homeopath. You cut back on sugars, white bread and fried foods." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"He owned a small business and expected to continue making a comfortable living. He was known for his meticulous work and his scrupulous honesty. Since he and his wife Cindy did most of the work, he had limited expenses, and he was generous to the relatives he employed. Harry was an elder of his church with considerable responsibility for administration and teaching. He and Cindy had no children; their family was the church and the community surrounding it." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"According to a case study from the Green Gazelle project of the Center for small business and the Environment, NaturaLawn of America now has over seventy-three independendy owned franchise locations servicing over forty-five thousand environmentally concerned customers in twenty-seven states and generating over $24 million in annual revenues. In 2002 alone, NaturaLawn of America reduced the usage of petroleum derivative fertilizers by over 2." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"It is surprising that small business, which covers far fewer of its employees than big business, does not push to eliminate the connection. It puts small business at a recruiting disadvantage, while big business is able to reap the tax benefit. In a Microsoft website editorial, Joseph Anthony argues for small business to support universal coverage.8 Divorcing health insurance from being a direct work "benefit"—really wages, but not generally perceived as such—would level the playing field for business, both domestically and internationally." - Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H., Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System (Get the book.)

"The National Federation of Independent Businessmen, the biggest and most respected small-business organization in the country, had determined that Glenn and Metzenbaum each voted against small business 70 percent of the time. Only a few other senators in the country were worse. We did find Regula had a plus. He voted for small business almost 90 percent of the time. Regula was, therefore, half good but was a gutless wonder when it came to servicing you with regard to government injustices." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) "I next went to the small business Administration and was directed to a division of the S.B.A. that was relatively new called Advocacy. It was specifically set up to protect small businesses from unjust acts from regulatory agencies. I was turned over to an agent within this division named Jerry Lawson. My first contact was with one of Mr. Lawson's assistants, and he certainly was encouraging. He said, "Keep the faith, baby. We'll take care of you." This all sounded too good to be true, and as it turned out, it was." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"We can give this money not as charity, but as an investment in the latent ambitions of poor people in villages and squatter cities, on the condition that the recipients magnify this seed by starting a small business or enlarging an existing one. In addition, we can strongly encourage them to take some small portion of their growing investment to help someone else as well. This is a virtuous circle that keeps on giving, paying its benefits forward generation after generation. It's a beautiful thing, and it's the only type of love you can dispense with money." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In due course she succeeds in building a small business out of this, adding a second source of income to the household. However, unlike Raghu's income from manual labor, Vimala's investment continues to grow—to create goods to sell—even when she is not working on it. They have started leveraging the power of credit. Vimala pays back the loan, and finds that SEWA has begun a new program allowing borrowers to open a micro-savings account through which they can earn some interest. For the first time in their lives, Vimala and Raghu have started levering the power of time and money." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "A number of small business and entrepreneurial individuals are now saving and reselling this salvaged wood for interior use. Like any antique, a reclaimed-wood floor not only looks beautiful and unique, it holds the character of its past. Think of the story hidden within a wood floor made from the support beams of an old granary or a barn roof." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Smaller Circles, Enormous Impact mmmm The virtues of helping a person in the Global South jump-start a small business are undeniable, but what do we do if we can't afford to make a two-hundred-dollar gift on our own? We can turn our twenty dollars into two hundred dollars by coordinating our donations through giving circles. Giving circles are easy to set up and easy to manage: we donate a small amount of money and ask our friends and coworkers ro match our donation." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"However, the long hours and high stresses required to run a small business had made it easy to neglect his health and now he was in my office looking for help. "I just seem exhausted all the time and I can't seem to remember things the way I used to," he said. "Yesterday, I almost drove my pickup off the road because I fell asleep at the wheel. Hey, it was 3 P.M.; that's just not right." Tom was seriously overweight, he smoked, and his blood pressure was 150/100. Tom looked like a setup for diabetes—really, he was a setup for disaster. His marriage was also under a great deal of stress. " - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"Meanwhile, the House Committee on small business (Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology), chaired by Representative Ron Wyden, had called for a series of congressional hearings to investigate charges of off-label promotion by the biotech manufacturers. Among the allegations investigated were charges that "doctors were receiving cash payoffs, sometimes disguised as 'research grants,' to prescribe hormone drugs to patients even when they lacked obvious clinical diagnosis of hormone deficiency" (Wyden, 1994)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.)

"We attended any meeting that might even distantly relate to our project: the Vermont Sheep Breeders Association (VSBA) annual meetings, the Vermont Sheep Summit, the "Future of Vermont Agriculture," small business Administration meetings, the "Vermont Food 8c Agricultural Products Export Workshop" sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy, and even meetings with the Dairy Goat Promotion Board. Senator Leahy was involved in a number of initiatives that impressed us both." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"Other former Eastern Bloc countries are flourishing with a mix of small business, banking and new technology industries. With the growth in the European economy, the sometimes-onerous European and Scandinavian taxes ease up, which throws more money into the mix. The underemployed sectors in urban areas start to hum with viable new ways to bring the disaffected or thriving underground economy into the mainstream. Russia finds ways to spread more of the wealth, curbing corruption, mafia barons and oligarchs, so that there is more money in the economy for the average person." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"Today, coaches purposely will get thrown out of a game by a referee to motivate their team. And small business owners may, to raise their workers' morale, tweak an obnoxious customer. We mental health professionals are certainly not taught about out-rageousness and revitalization. Instead, we are taught to fear even the appearances of inappropriateness. So it is quite understandable that most mental health professionals are simply not willing to risk their professional image for the sake of raising morale." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"And the economic house could be elected through the device of enfranchising economic "stakeholders" such as investors, labor, management, small business, consumers, and environmental interests. The laws enacted by these three legislative houses would be approved and interpreted by a tricameral judiciary consisting of a court that would rule on global economic and environmental issues; a court concerned with international human rights; and a court empowered to settle disputes between nation-states and to maintain the jurisdictional limits of world law." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"All of the women were wives of coffee farmers and each had started a small business with the loans from their village bank. Maria and four other women had pooled their loans to buy thread in bulk at a substantial savings. This allowed them to sell their weavings reasonably and bring needed income to the household. She proudly pointed upward at the new tin roof that her savings had purchased since my last visit. I asked her if there was any resentment among the men when women bring good money into the house." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "She predicted she would be able to make the rent and take care of her family after six months (pretty good for a small business anywhere!). She wanted to expand her offerings to include cosmetics, which were not readily available in her neighborhood. We gave her a cash grant to buy the inventory. While we were visiting, several customers stopped by. Maria filled their orders from her wheelchair. The boys raced the bread, fruit, and soft drinks over to the barred window and returned to Mom with the money." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "We could provide needed training for each person and then find work or set up a small business back home if it looked like a good match. Polus Center would develop individual service plans to assist each person with the often difficult dynamics of reintegration into his or her former, now radically different life. Dona Olga would be happy that her clients were being provided for and helped back to a productive, meaningful life. I agreed that Dean's Beans would pay for the first two repatriations, and we would then have a track record with which to approach other groups for future funding." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"It had become obvious that the highest point of susceptibility to devastating regulatory action for a small business comes to that point when they are very visible, yet have no government influence, relatively little money to fight in court, and no large legal staff. This susceptibility really increased when a company trespassed on a protected territory of a vested-interest corporation. Now the reason for the incredibly swift and unjustly severe action by the Consumer Protection Network with regard to our diet bread became quite understandable." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"The fruit is so well regarded by Oriental lovers that the ownership of just one tree can make a man as well off as if he owned a small business. It's a rough life, though, for owners often have to sleep under their trees to guard them. In the late 1920s Durian Fruit Products of New York City launched a product named Dur-lndia as a "health-food accessory." The bottles sold for nine dollars a dozen, about a three-month supply." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"Corinne Cooper, professor emeritus of law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, went into business for herself in Arizona after her academic career and struggled to obtain health coverage as the owner of a small business. She asks, "Is insurance only to protect the people who don't need it?" Even those who have top-of-the-line health coverage find out belatedly that it's not enough when a major illness strikes. A TEACHER LEARNS A LESSON For most of her life, Lynn Oldham was in excellent health." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

"RF)-based technology used for home and small business wireless networks, and for most public wireless Internet connections. There are various subsets of the 802.11 standard; the most popular is 802.11b, which uses the 2.4-GHz RE band and is more commonly known as Wi-Fi. address the location of an Internet host. An e-mail address might take the form johndoe(S)xyz.com; a Web address might look like www.xyztech.com. See also URL." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"It puts small business at a recruiting disadvantage, while big business is able to reap the tax benefit. In a Microsoft website editorial, Joseph Anthony argues for small business to support universal coverage.8 Divorcing health insurance from being a direct work "benefit"—really wages, but not generally perceived as such—would level the playing field for business, both domestically and internationally." - Bob LeBow, M.D., M.P.H., Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System (Get the book.)

"He voted for small business almost 90 percent of the time. Regula was, therefore, half good but was a gutless wonder when it came to servicing you with regard to government injustices. We had gone through just about every elected government official and government agent whom we paid for the service of protecting us from injustice. We were refused from top to bottom, starting with the president down to the lower bureaucratic agencies. We were not only refused but treated rudely and told by many that they didn't even have to give us the reason why they would not help us." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Instead, the talk was of preventing "ruinous" competition and saving small business and the American way of life. The new forms of industrial organization (corporations, holding companies, and so-called "trusts") were all denounced in the most strident terms, even though as later antitrust cases would demonstrate, they were generally lowering prices in the marketplace. That small business interests lobbied for antitrust protectionism and for laws restricting the charging of lower prices is beyond historical dispute (see, especially, the Clayton Act of 1914 and the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936)." - The Disinformation Company, Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Secrets and Lies (Get the book.)

"They found themselves in an increasingly competitive small business, and few had real business experience or special administrative acumen. Instead of the usual billing practices for one patient at a time, physicians had to negotiate contracts on an annual basis with not one, but many insurers. Practice management became an entirely new field involving competitive advantage, market share, negotiation, and cost accounting. And while the cost of care was increasing, insurers were reducing physicians' fees, sometimes abruptly and without warning." - Jerome P. Kassirer, On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health (Get the book.)

"Reverse osmosis system manufacturers whose products can claim certification by NSF International and the Water Quality Association include EcoWater Systems and Rainsoft. (See Health and Medical Organizations in the Appendix for more information about these companies.) BOTTLED WATER Because of concerns over the safety and health effects of tap water, many people today are turning to bottled water. Bottled water is usually classified by its source (spring, spa, geyser, public water supply, etc." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Energy Star-certified equipment and save more than 3,500 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, worth at least $265 at today's average commercial electric rates.51 The EPA estimates that if all Americans did this with small offices alone, we would save some 21 billion kilowatt hours and 2.3 billion pounds of carbon dioxide. That is equivalent to taking 807,000 cars off the road, she said. The typical household spends $1,500 a year on energy bills. With Energy Star, you can save up to 30 percent, or more than $450 per year." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The president of the company, Steve Spiritas, characterized USDA's actions as an "all-out assault by the federal government on our small business." He charged USDA with "manipulating the testing results, suppressing critical information,. . . [and] using bullying tactics to support a position that a federal court has told it has no legal, logical, or scientific basis."51 He also pointed out that meat supplied to Supreme Beef bore the stamp "USDA Inspected and Passed," meaning that USDA had certified its safety." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

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