Even expedition ships, where spartan accommodation is almost a point of pride, are offering creature comforts.
By last November, they were paying a premium of almost a full point.
Ms. BRANDY VOSE (Airline Passenger, Logan International Airport): They've taken all these precautions, but now it's the liquid thing, and it's kind of almost a moot point, you know?
Cousin then almost rescued a point for his side when he won a free-kick on the edge of the penalty area in the dying moments of the game but could only rifle the resulting shot over the bar.
On September 10th the average rate on a 30-year mortgage was 5.79%, almost half a percentage point below the average rate of 6.25% the previous week.
Although the company experienced some product pressure, gross margins improved sequentially by almost half of a point.
Utilities are up almost a full percentage point, three-fourths of a percentage point.
According to Moody's, a rating agency, the third-quarter delinquency rate of 3.89% was almost a full percentage point below the historical average.
Rising home-energy bills, which have jumped by nearly 15% so far this year, will add almost half a percentage point to consumer-price inflation in February.
In a landmark study titled Boys Will Be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence and Common Stock Investment professors Brad Barber and Terrance Odean of the University of California, Davis, documented that men traded 45 percent more than women and ended up having their net returns reduced by almost a full percentage point compared to women.
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Despite his decision to pick a largely second-string side, Blackpool almost left Villa Park with a point after a lively display.
The airline's seatback entertainment consoles offer a broader variety of TV, movies and music than most, but the real innovation is that they also allow passengers to order food and drink at almost any point during a flight.
Almost all of us go through a wild stage at some point but almost all of us are financially constrained when we do.
With their record of finding elephant fields, "it becomes almost a statistical play at some point, " Musselman says.
With their record of finding huge fields, "it becomes almost a statistical play at some point, " Musselman says.
Levitt, who understands his career as the study of incentives, accepts that economists, and especially he, view certain issues from a cold, almost withdrawn point which other people could consider immoral or inhumane.
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"My conflict with this grape is that it has been written and spoken about for way too long as a grape that helps to define the South African category, almost to the point of rendering the category a proverbial 'one-trick pony, ' " he wrote in an email, comparing it to Mendoza Malbec from Argentina and Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand.
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"The danger is that we could be reaching a point where nuclear weapons would become almost conventional, and there will be the possibility of a nuclear conflict at some point... that would be a turning point in human history, " he said.
Though manager Don Mattingly said publicly that Rice would almost certainly receive a promotion at some point during the year, the call never came.
Brooklyn led by as many as 21 points and almost saw their reserves squander a 15 point lead with 3:52 left in the fourth quarter after Blatche's 3-pointer made it 103-88.
Now that the winter solstice is almost upon us, a big turning point each year in the dark North Atlantic, WEEKEND EDITION food essayist Bonny Wolf tries to understand the food's appeal.
Almost everybody who has been successful or who has been in a successful organization learns something about dealing with change, and there is a fundamental methodology that almost everybody has been taught that, up to a certain point, seems to work well.
At 29, Roddick has settled into the role of the cranky vet, and before 18, 000 at the Garden he played the clown, chucking his racket in playful frustration (though at one point almost accidentally hitting a ball girl) and briefly mimicking Nadal by pulling up his sleeves, exposing his biceps and imitating the Spanish champion's loopy topspin strokes.
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Three years ago, Kughn reached a turning point when he almost died of an auto immune disorder that afflicted his lungs.
We are now at a point where it is almost impossible to imagine a functioning capital market without an oversize role for government.
Instead, Mr Howard produced a ten-point plan that almost, but not quite, met their demand.
In Asia the Nikkei is at almost exactly at the same point it was a year ago.
And, at this point, the Leap is almost a third the price of the Kinect for Windows 1.5.
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And Paterson struck again almost immediately to open up a useful 10-point cushion.
At that point, I could almost hear a cheer rise up from the swollen ranks of the Crusty Laid-off Newspaper Guild, Local 99.
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