As so often with TM, there was also precious little marketing and promotion involved.
Push may not have won these big awards but with media moguls Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry signing on as executive producers, Precious has enjoyed dreamy promotion, some say hype.
The major labels seem wary of more visible promotion for fear of damaging the precious "cred".
But this time an eight-match barren spell left precious little time for a revival and the promotion express was derailed for another year.
Welcoming spring, a wedding, a birthday, a promotion, all these are the most precious moments in everyone's life.
The Norwich manager Alex Neil refused to criticise keeper John Ruddy for the gaffe that handed a precious point to one of his side's main promotion rivals – Ruddy fumbling Derby youngster Jamie Hanson's corner into the net.
Many teachers, however, contend that in spite of its failure to end the practice of automatic promotion, summer school offers foundering students a precious second chance to improve their reading and math.
Most of the large department stores plan months in advance what they will showcase in the precious window real estate, often tying merchandise to store promotions.
"We know our aim is promotion so every point that we are playing for is precious," he said.
The State's costly promotion of the NWRC, despite its clear lack of benefit and racial bias, wastes the precious time of young people and providers, and diverts resources away from programs proven to get young adults into the workforce.
