You can choose to hire 2 quality employees at a slightly higher rate and 10 barely average employees at a lower rate and hope that the skills of the two quality persons rub off on the others.
In other words, the '87 Twins were a barely above average team.
But among the 105 teams that have won the Fall Classic, some were just barely above average performers in the regular season that benefitted from a well-timed hot streak, playing in a weak division or an opponent's collapse.
But over the same period, data from research firm FactSet says, investors in Chinese companies have on average barely beaten inflation, in dollar terms, by one percentage point a year.
The stockmarket is still at only half its 2007 peak and, although house prices have risen sharply this year in Shanghai and Shenzhen, the nationwide average is barely higher than it was a year ago.
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After a decade with average growth of barely 1%, a recovery would be more than welcome.
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In fact, making stuff only accounts for 9.7% of employment in the three northern regions, barely higher than the national average.
While many Asian countries worry about aging populations, Cambodia seems stuck in another era, where average life expectancy barely exceeds 50 years.
Despite the drop, bullish sentiment remains above its historical average, albeit barely.
Nevertheless, income per head in the northern triangle, plus Nicaragua, rose by 1.6% a year between 1995 and 2009, barely above the Latin American average of 1.5%.
Meanwhile, left-of-center thinkers tended to accentuate the negative, arguing that the lot of the average worker has barely improved at all, and may have actually declined, since the 1970s.
As discussed earlier, the weekly RSI formed a second bearish divergence and just barely moved above its weighted moving average.
As is, the average NFL career lasts barely more than three years.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) barely budged during the decade, so initial public offerings were scarce and small and medium-sized companies only had access to loans from commercial banks and a handful of insurance companies.
With a savings rate of barely 4% of GDP, the average US household is unlikely to be over-saving.
Players drive to neighboring Modena for home games, where the average attendance of 4, 000 barely fills a corner of Modena's 20, 000-seat arena.
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The weekly on-balance volume (OBV) made its high in February but formed a lower high in May (point 2), just barely making it above its flat weighted moving average (WMA).
Nowadays, candid and intelligent people--not to mention partisans--tell us that the average American's standard of living has barely budged in decades.
Beijing's average domestic water-consumption per person has barely changed in the past decade even though prices more than doubled between 2001 and 2004.
Dealers can barely keep it in stock, selling each one within an average of just 15 days of its arrival in the showroom.
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