It is an exhausting lineup, especially for a still-slight company that was conceived as a boutique and founded, eight long years ago, largely on faith and other people's money.
When a regional competitor, Caldor, closed in 1999, Bradlees enjoyed a slight upswing, but company officials said it was not enough to keep the stores open.
Even though there was a slight improvement in company equipment purchases in 2004, overall levels of equipment investment in Germany are again around 87% of levels in 2000, while building investment is continuing to decline, reaching 85% of 2000 levels.
Not to slight Glenn Danzig and company, but seeing D-Unit live is a mind-bendingly holy experience at least if viewed from within a space-time vacuum.
That is still slight, but many companies are no longer expanding.
Although the chief executive of the theater's owner, Cinemark, flew to Aurora immediately after the shooting, Ms. Teves and other family members said they felt slighted by the company.
A connection to the CIA can be a slight disadvantage for companies when doing business overseas, particularly in China or the Middle East, where people are leery of the affiliation with the intelligence agency.
But ultimately bad timing, poor sales (possibly poor skill on my part), and the slightest bit of company bureaucracy hindered my chances to move forward.
But ultimately bad timing, poor sales – possibly poor skill on my part – and the slightest bit of company bureaucracy hindered my chances to move forwards.
Kind of divisive, that, really – some players laugh along while others struggle to raise the slightest smile to company names like Lifeinvader, the fifth game's parody of Facebook.
By contrast, second-tier companies have "slight" deficiencies in their businesses, while third-tier companies "are less likely to be successful as stand-alone companies," as Mr. Noto's note puts it.
