Consider than Microsoft shares eked out a mere 28-cent gain in the past week.
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Since then, the information sector decline has slowed and last year the area eked out growth of 0.4%.
But neither company has yet eked out a clear advantage in what could be a spirited marketing battle.
Even in 2008 and 2009, as the credit crisis raged, YA Global Investments Fund I eked out small annual gains.
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In a district that had more Democrats than Republicans, 41-year-old Democratic state legislator John Murtha eked out a 230-vote victory.
In spite of the looming costs, BP still eked out a profit in the fourth quarter from a year earlier.
In 2007, Mayweather eked out a split decision over Oscar De La Hoya, who was past his prime at that point.
Described in typical industry gobbledygook as a "multistrategy, market-neutral arbitrage" fund, SRI eked out a net 0.07% return its first six months.
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On Tuesday, the blue-chip index eked out a gain of three points, or less than 0.1%, despite declines in the broader market.
The Droid DNA just eked out the win over honorable mention winners: the Galaxy Note II and Nokia's Lumia 920.
Including dividends, mortgage REITs have eked out an average annual total return of 4.8% since 1971--not much better than the 4.5% inflation average.
McLaren, however, found the cool temperatures to their liking and consistently eked out faster times than the Ferraris in all three qualifying sessions.
Republican Jim Gerlach has eked out victories here during the past two elections, beating Democratic opponents by just a couple of percentage points.
Over the four years 2008 through 2011, U.S. productivity climbed a cumulative 5.8% while the OECD overall eked out only a 3.4% gain.
The economy eked out a 0.5% expansion in the fiscal year ended in March after two years of contraction, but that is not helping.
At the latter, opened in 1965, David Hockney and a fellow art student, Patrick Proctor, eked out their grants by helping in the kitchens.
Take the Monterey Murphy New World Biotechnology Fund, which has eked out 6% annual growth since becoming a biotech fund four and a half years ago.
But whatever advantages are eked out through tactical guile, Labour's main problem, aside from the economic gloom, is the perception that it has run out of ideas.
Rounding out the list, Windows Phone and Windows Mobile account for nine percent, largely thanks to sales of HTC handsets, while webOS and Symbian each eked out two percent.
But after a 21% rise in 2010, his Japan Fund eked out a 3.6% return in the 12 months ended Jan. 31 as the earthquake and tsunami disrupted Japanese businesses.
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World number one Woods , who eked out a scrappy 70 on Thursday, got off to a flier by sinking long-range birdie putts at the first and fourth holes to get to two under.
Vice President Joe Biden was recently dispatched to Democratic stronghold Jefferson County in the important swing state of Ohio, in part because Obama barely eked out a win over John McCain in the predominately white, working-class community.
One of the stocks that bucked the broader market trend today is DaVita HealthCare Partners ( DVA), which eked out a tiny gain on a day that the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 300 points.
Building the subscriber base, and with it expanding their platform, is the primary goal of these companies, which includes the likes of TiVo and Boxee, and Roku has eked out an enviable position in the crowded field, Hargreaves explained.
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Both Mad Men knock offs, which attempted to replicate similar 1960s nostalgia, fell extremely short (The Playboy Club was canceled after only three episodes and Pan Am barely eked through its first season, only to be unceremoniously axed in June 2012).
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Meanwhile, there were newly ascendant challengers like Baylor, which featured the 6-foot-8 tour de force Brittney Griner and came into the NCAA tournament ranked No. 1, and Notre Dame, the Big East Conference winner that had eked past UConn three times this season.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, a former Knight-Ridder paper that was acquired last year by McClatchy and then sold to a local investor group, eked out an average daily circulation gain of 0.6% to 352, 592, a notable improvement from the 7.6% year-on-year decline it recorded during the previous six-month period.
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