In Newt Gingrich's America, if a young African American male is killed for nothing more than being in the wrong neighborhood at the wrong time, it is somehow a problem if the President suggests, barely, that there might have been a racial dynamic to the events.
Movement director Ann Yee keeps the stage in flux, suggesting a barely contained turbulence.
In some cases, Olmos's images suggest, murder barely registers in the first place.
Polls suggest that barely more than half, if that, of Americans see things that way.
Opinion polls suggest that barely a quarter of Basques are diehard secessionists; a study by the BBVA, the big local bank, suggests they would be much less well off on their own.
Lord knows there's enough of them – one recent poll suggests that barely half (51%) of those who voted for the government in 2005 now say they will do so again.
This pollster suggests that barely more than half of the people who supported Labour at the last election (which it lost) would support the party at an election tomorrow.
This news was swiftly followed by the release of some 2011 data from a pilot scheme, conducted by China's health authorities, which suggest that barely 80% of China's urban tap water meets standards.China, which is desperately short of all sorts of water, faces considerable challenges with the little it has.
Tests by the Home Depot, America's biggest purveyor of FSC-stamped products, suggest that barely a third of customers would pay a premium of 2% for a certified product, not enough to green even Western retailers.The second cloud over tropical certification schemes, as Wal-Mart may find, is doubt about their reliability.
Yet the sad truth is that six years from now, in 2015, the data suggest that barely half will have an earned a degree and, out of the vast pool of students who do not attend elite institutions, only four in 10 will do so.
