"Looking at the numbers, it seems to me that what the nuclear physics officials are trying to do is keep everybody alive, but just barely, this year with an eye to making a decision in 2014," Vigdor says.
The case, Schuette v Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, does not concern the constitutionality of affirmative-action programmes themselves: the court banned quotas but upheld the use of race as an admissions "plus factor" in Regents v Bakke in 1978, in Grutter v Michigan in 2003 and again, just barely, in last spring's Fisher v University of Texas.
The chief executive of Official Charts, Martin Talbot, talked up the £20m revenues from vinyl this year, calling them "an incredible turnaround from barely £3m just five years ago" – though vinyl still only accounts for 2% of the overall music market in the UK.
In 2000, though barely known just a year earlier, Putin won the presidency.
Newspaper companies are losing advertisers, readers, market value, and, in some cases, their sense of mission at a pace that would have been barely imaginable just four years ago.
High speed computing, global connectivity, cloud computing and 3D Printing provide you - or your competitors - with an innovator's toolkit that barely existed just a decade ago.
It did, just barely, in 1998.
It was surpassed only once, just barely, in 2004.
Matamata caught its star, just barely, in 1998, when a farmer named Russell Alexander — jovial, bald and blunt — saw a stranger with binoculars peering across his land.
The chart shows that resistance (line a) was just barely overcome last week.
