Today, assistants can perform a small set of tasks, each saving me a few precious steps (or clicks) along the way.
Meantime I am forced to walk precious extra steps or turn around and go home.
Even the front car, typically crammed with those eager to conserve a few precious commuting steps, was just about empty.
Apple has taken precious few steps to solve the integration issue — and in some ways has built an ecosystem to make sure that when users do want to "integrate" it will be with other Apple devices and services.
In semiconductor manufacturing, the spatial pattern of failed devices in a wafer can give precious hints on which step of the process is responsible for the failures.
In an unexpected passage Mr. Selya is mocked by Mr. Asnes and Mr. Bowman, who perform a precious dance with mincing steps on tiptoe.
The kitchen was precious because he had stepped inside, the chairs, because he had sat in them.
The choreography is less of a mess than an unedited collection of Mr. Dorfman's pet steps, too precious to him.
Well, the precious footfalls of baby steps are at least pattering in the distance.
