If I own a widget factory and half of my widget makers are only operating one shift a day and half of them are idle, I am not going to take out a loan to expand no matter how low the interest rates are.
They hadn't lost a set in Olympic competition until the other day, when they dropped one to Austria ("Pissed me off for a day and a half, " Walsh Jennings cracked later.).
Digging a bit deeper it is hard to escape the feeling that of the eight nations listed few have less of a plan to approach the powerplays and the second half of a one-day innings in general.
Scouted from across Spain, the 60 young players who live at La Masia play surprisingly little football - just over one and a half hours per day.
Targeted equally at growers and executives from Champagne houses, it involves 10 one-and-a-half day sessions over the course of a year, after which students can be considered for an MBA at the school, should they wish.
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At the squatter camp, I met a man who carries 40 litres of water in two containers, one and a half kilometres to his home every day.
My wife reminded me that I used to be marvel that the car would one day be a half-century old...and now it was only a year away from Social Security.
The announcement on Thursday follows the launch of NHS Direct Online earlier this week, which lets web users check medical symptoms and receive advice and boasted one and a half million hits in its first day of existence.
Over the next month and a half he proceeded to spend one full day in each of the forty-eight states, until in late October he made his way back to the Long Island runway from which he'd taken off on Labor Day weekend.
He announced the debate would be held the following day, on 20 March, and would last for one and a half hours.
Newton was a key figure in the Ashes-winning team of last summer, and scored two half centuries in a victorious one-day campaign in Sri Lanka which followed over the winter.
The basic literacy programme takes place over one and a half years, and is held for three hours per day for five days a week at the NFE centres, usually housed in local schools.
And over half are supposed to check between one and five times a day.
Then, one day when they were running a half-marathon together, Phil suffered an aneurism and was rushed to the hospital in a coma.
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The pipeline can import up to 1.2 million barrels per day and is connected through a network of crude oil pipelines to about one-half of U.S. refining capacity.
But soon after reaching his 68th one-day half century, Ponting was beaten in the flight by Swann and looped a catch to Collingwood, who was stationed at mid-on, a dismissal which sparked a seven-wicket collapse for just 80 runs.
He ended up playing four matches but only managed a half with Robert Karlsson in the day one foursomes contest against Phil Mickelson and Anthony Kim.
"I do yoga every day, and that has given me a lot of inspiration and ideas in the past one-and-a-half years, " he says.
Officials say that at one point earlier this year there was only a half-day's supply of gasoline in all of Baghdad, and gas lines stretched out of sight.
Several hours after a session which involved one-second pulses for five minutes followed by five minutes of rest, the rats began breathing normally for a day and a half.
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