It shows that some firms design and manufacture innovative products, while others upgrade their technological capability or merely strive to attain execution competence.
As Silver's book The Signal and the Noise puts it, we can merely "strive to be less subjective, less irrational, and less wrong".
Merely striving to maintain any standard at all in the face of the power of commercial pop is an accomplishment in itself.
Writer deplores this excessive influence of cantors, who according to the writings of the late Rabbi Max Schloessinger, merely strive for showy vocal effects instead of striving to preserve religious tradition.
As lawmakers and regulators respond to the financial crisis, they are not evaluating the practice of securitization thoughtfully, asking when and whether it beats traditional bank lending; they are merely striving to restore securitization to its precollapse levels.
By comparison, they insisted, they were sticking with actual ballots and merely striving for accuracy by demanding a manual recount -- on top of the mechanical recount -- in several counties.
The court demanded just one revision: rather than merely "striving" to obtain the approval of the Bundestag's budget committee before issuing guarantees to other euro countries it must always obtain prior approval from the committee.This demand is likely to have an effect on changes now being contemplated by the Bundestag.
"Mad Men's" Don Draper seems to take getting caught cheating on his wife in stride; Nurse Jackie believes that taking prescription drugs is enabling her to juggle work and family better; and the manipulative Patty Hewes in "Damages" is merely striving to remain at the top of her field.
It's more likely, though, that Shields is a grower and that Grizzly Bear are artists not merely computing business plans, but striving for a 21st-century take on widescreen American orchestral rock, as their ambitious album closer, Sun in Your Eyes, suggests.
And if you're only striving for equilibrium — which is all but impossible — you will merely continue doing the same thing, year after year, as the world moves on.
