Its strength: anecdotes from other small-business owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [103 Best Web Sites] Reference

It would help small-business owners by eliminating the estate tax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is This The Right Medicine?] Reference

That's not the mood of the nation's No. 1 small-business spokesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Soon To Panic] Reference

Or it can be uncertain, like a stock (freelancer, small-business owner).    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Not Dumb To Own Bonds] Reference

Not all of those can properly be called "small-business owners," however.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Small-Business Bunk] Reference

That could encourage more small-business owners to start offering insurance.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Health-Care Reform Will Mean for You] Reference

These days I'm hardly the only small-business owner to face banking problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Show Me the Money] Reference

You've got small-business owners right now who are not taking paychecks home.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric Cantor: It’s All About Jobs] Reference

We should have the small-business guys represented in the hallways of Congress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Competing for Connecticut] Reference

"Most of them are small-business types," he said, "and they don't like lawsuits.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Warming Up Kerry] Reference

"He has the temperament of a small-business man who happened to become President.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Politics of Austerity] Reference

At the pharmacy or the dry cleaner, the owners and I trade small-business war stories.    From Wordnik.com.  [SUDDENLY WIDOWED AND FIGHTING THE IRS] Reference

Health Care: The small-business lobby says Clinton's mandatory plan will kill off jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Soon To Panic] Reference

Finally, small-business Web sites are less likely to fall victim to technical overkill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Size Matters: Small Is Good] Reference

Hoven, who has a small-business clientele, says he'll be building tax shelters for years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To The Shelter] Reference

"We want to pay increased attention to those vibrant small-business climates," says Rove.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROVE UNLEASHED] Reference

Those who could legitimately be called "small-business owners" would be even less than that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Change Is Wrong] Reference

Now, roughly 40 percent of his small-business clients file them and pick up big tax savings.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAN I DEDUCT MY PJS?] Reference

Moormann sounds like a typical small-business owner in Silicon Valley, but she lives in Berlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's A Woman's World] Reference

For that matter, Barack Obama would also be a small-business owner, by virtue of his book income.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Small-Business Bunk] Reference

But  this leaves out all but a very small fraction of those McCain counts as small-business owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Small-Business Bunk] Reference

The White House was unable to rebut the small-business charge that the Clinton plan would cost jobs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Big Blunders] Reference

Latent angels are a variant of angels -- small-business investors who have money to seed new companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [AWAITING THE CASH OF ANGELS] Reference

"The banks here are not small-business oriented," complains Sam Sloan, president of Small Business Hawaii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balancing The Checkbook] Reference

But last week Motley said he was speaking for the entire small-business community, and that's hardly the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Soon To Panic] Reference

Roughly 60 percent of the individuals participating in small-business investment clubs are actually "latent angels.".    From Wordnik.com.  [AWAITING THE CASH OF ANGELS] Reference

Despite government subsidies, small-business advocates say the cost of insuring workers would lead to major cutbacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scorecard: Rating The Health Care Revolution] Reference

Many small-business owners would indeed see their taxes go up if Obama is elected and raises the top income-tax rates.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Small-Business Bunk] Reference

The array of obstacles, from the doctors to the insurance companies to the small-business lobby, was truly formidable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Rattle For Health Reform] Reference

Tax attorney Sandy Botkin says many of his small-business clients are confused by how to treat rebates when they file taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Make A (Tough) Deal] Reference

Often, small-business owners think that the expense of protection -- such as buying software shields -- is not worth the risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Web Attack In The Workplace] Reference

At that time, the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center estimated that a total of 471,000 small-business employers could be affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain's Small-Business Bunk] Reference

Lenders not only profit from interest payments but also build a base of small-business owners who will continue to bank with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [10 Big Thinkers for Big Business] Reference

If this woman is taxed at the top rate, she's "making it" better than 99 percent of what could be considered small-business owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Change Is Wrong] Reference

CIT Group, the small-business lender that lost its way in an ill-timed foray into subprime, is a perfect example of those quick reflexes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Comeback Country] Reference