As of this year, they had a market share measured not in points but in hundredths of a point.
"We're 24 points behind United -- but we're not 24 points behind in quality, " said defiant Liverpool manager Brendan Rogers.
Instead, they lost and cost themselves not only 3 points in the table but also nearly 1.75 points in the residual standings.
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Despite the loss -- just their second in the league this season -- Barca are still way out ahead of on 68 points, but not in an unassailable position just yet, as the match winner Ramos pointed out.
You know, not very long ago when inflation was in the 1, 000's of percentage points it was not a country where it was easy to believe in the future.
"We're disappointed not to get three points in the end, " he said.
Not only are the three points not easily defined, they are in many ways at odds with one another.
Not surprisingly, both shows are overwhelmingly Northern in their points of view: the South, its economy crippled, could not sustain much of a market for wartime art.
There is substantial upside potential in rare earth mineral stocks, and though a decisive bottom is not yet in place, risk-controlled entry points are evident for three leading producers.
Wilkinson is the highest-ever points scorer in Test rugby history and would have scored even more points had he not suffered from an appalling string of injuries since kicking England to World Cup glory in 2003.
Richard Schultz, a political scientist at McGill University in Montreal, points out that the Bloc has not made sovereignty an issue in the election.
These are not the only points of agreement in a campaign that has been bland by Italian standards.
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Apple has done a very good job of not only addressing pain points and in many cases it has built entire ecosystems around those pain points.
Andre Agassi closed the gap between himself and Champions Race leader Lleyton Hewitt to just 43 points, but not in the manner he would have hoped for.
However, for completeness and accuracy, the text below includes ( in bold ) my recollection of points made during the meeting, but not included in my handwritten notes.
Other brighter points are that where HMV has refitted its stores so that they contain many more high-value technology items, such as tablets, and electronic stuff, the sales decline isn't as bad - sales in those stores are about four or five percentage points better (or not as ghastly) as in older-format stores.
Ferreira fought back in the final set and had two break-points in the seventh game but could not capitalise.
Petro, who has played in only 21 games this season, scored 10 points in the first quarter but did not take another shot.
In October 2002 the spread was over ten points, not that the numbers meant much, given the panic in the markets at that time.
But the strategy fared poorly last September in a special House election in Nevada, in which the Democrat lost by more than 20 points, although it was not the sole issue in the election.
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Vonn is not alone in her quest, and she points to female golfer Anneka Sorenstam as an inspiration in her battle.
Probably not, unless someone points them out in a compelling way.
But one of the points I did not make in the original article is that many, if not most internships take place during the school year, and are awarded academic credit.
Schools minister Jim Knight said that the gap in achievement between 11-year-olds on free school meals and those who were not had narrowed by three percentage points in the last four years.
No lawyer for Ijaz had ever contacted me, I was never threatened with legal action over the column, and I did not retract it, points I made in a follow-up column March 21.
It not only points out a critical challenge in aligning venture funding with the needs in the medical space, but it also pinpoints specific and systemic hurdles that prevent those of us working in healthcare from achieving great outcomes.
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When it is all over (if you have survived) and you have the information you need, I hope you have the future of our country in mind and not just some idealistic points of view so that you could be the subject of the next Sean Penn movie.
What we have heard in just a few days is a lot of different points of view not just from Republicans, but sometimes from the very same Republican in a matter of hours or days about whether or not they even support giving tax cuts to the middle class here in America.
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