Motorola reported a loss late on Wednesday that was smaller than Wall Street's estimates.
Yesterday, however, the S.& P. REIT index rose 1.08percentt, a gain that was smaller than the overall market's.
The computer workstation maker SGI reported yesterday that it had a first-quarter loss that was smaller than forecast.
Akamai Technologies jumped $2.04, or 34.2percentto to $8, after posting a quarterly loss that was smaller than analysts' predictions.
The company reported a profit decline that was smaller than analysts estimated as net revenue climbed to a record.
In essence, Newton treated an infinitesimal as a positive number that was smaller, somehow, than any positive real number.
China, meanwhile, was isolated and reeling from the bloodshed in Tiananmen Square, and straining to jump-start an economy that was smaller than Spain's.
Cigdem Bulut of Los Gatos, Calif., said her 3-year-old son, Arda, "got hyper" after she gave him a dose of Benadryl that was smaller than suggested to relax him on a flight to Turkey last summer.
While he attended Colgate University, he lived in student housing, always with roommates, except for one semester by himself in a room that was "smaller than the cells allowed under the Geneva Convention for prisoners of war," he said.
The number of jobs in the city, which is not adjusted for seasonal fluctuations, actually rose by 13,800 in February, a gain that was smaller than average, the Labor Department reported.
The Conference Board said yesterday that its index of leading economic indicators fell 0.5percentt in October after a 0.1percentt September increase that was smaller than previously estimated.
