"I haven't watched basketball in years," she said, because it's "too demanding on your time," in contrast with football's manageable Sunday-afternoon concentration.
As Greece's government found, debts that seem manageable one day can quickly become unsustainable the next if conditions in financial markets or the economy abruptly shift.
Connecting with the people around you can also make health challenges, including type 2 diabetes, more manageable in the day-to-day.
While not covered by insurance, the cost was manageable — $190 a day.
Crowds are also more manageable "after Labor Day but before the end of September, when the Halloween events start".
It may be crowded after work on Fridays, but it is much more manageable on a Saturday evening.
Those negotiations, aimed at forcing hedge funds and other private holders of Greek debt to accept large losses in order to make the country's debt load more manageable, will resume Wednesday amid rising concerns about the consequences of failure.
I don't usually sell K unless I'm at a festival (interacting regularly with ket-heads is only really manageable in three-day stints once a year), but I've been around enough of it to identify any ketamine dealer's standard customer.
Before April 21, Dr. Chen said, Taiwan had only 29 probable SARS cases, growing at a pace of two or three a day, a manageable rate.
At first I thought he was making a failed joke, an attempt to make the difficulty of the day seem manageable.
