By 2006, First Quality had 28 employees and $5.5 million in revenue and was barely breaking even.
Despite selling some 2.8 million copies a week, the News of the World was barely breaking even.
The blue dawn was barely breaking over the Hudson River as more than 3,400 people shuffled barefoot along its banks at 98th Street in Manhattan.
It was a fraud that went on for more than 15 years, complete with "family meetings" to create records to fool the auditors, who seem never to have caught on that something was amiss, even as a company that was barely breaking even was reporting more than $1 billion in nonexistent profits.
Dawn was barely breaking.
Yet two new polls released Monday show Romney trailing former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum who, just weeks ago, was barely breaking into double digits.
By the conclusion of the second leg, the tour had grossed over US$311 million from 44 shows, making it the highest-grossing tour of the year; despite this, the high production costs, approximately US$750,000 per day, meant the tour was barely breaking even.
The hospitals say they were appalled to find that UnitedHealthcare wanted a reduction of 7 to 10 percent in reimbursement levels at a time when its largest hospitals are barely breaking even.
Only Fiat, hit by a collapse in Brazil and a depressed Italian market (partly thanks to the end of government incentives for people to buy new cars), is suffering: its car business is barely breaking even this year.
When you're barely breaking even it's difficult to accept, especially when you think tennis is a big sport.
