Estimates of Internet sales are often barely more precise than the ancient method of forecasting sales by analyzing goat entrails.
Here, in one of the country's most famously liberal neighborhoods, they are sometimes cherished but more often barely tolerated, even scorned.
Although aluminum has a lower melting point than other cladding materials, the flat plate design maintains a low fuel temperature, as the plates are often barely more than 1.25 mm thick.
Facing stagnant and declining revenue, others, such as Oracle and IBM, are trying to have it both ways, milking legacy businesses while dabbling with cloud offerings that are often barely more than a managed services veneer.
Now the divide between peer and parent is barely visible and the biggies are more often found discussing PhD achievements, global travels or job promotions: 33 people catching up on all the year's stories.
They are casually dispatched – some messages are barely more than a signature – but are often the more telling for that: they catch Angela on the wing, shooting her mouth off.
More often, I am barely keeping up with the news cycle, uncertain which stories deserve my children's attention and which I might just fume about on a text message to my husband.
But they win by barely more than the spread a lot less often than slight favorites do.
The streets are barely wide enough to accommodate cars, and the traffic more often consists of women leading donkeys hauling hay and firewood.
Sometimes the best you can do is extraordinary, even heroic, but more often you are lucky if it is barely enough.
Sidestripe is barely out of alpha and still frustrating to use because more often than not the Sidestripe box remains empty.
