New Zealand made a steady start in reply as Craig Cumming and Jamie How took the score to 30 before Maharoof made the breakthrough by bowling Cumming for 13.

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Looking at previous Opens here on TV, having watched film of Seve here in 1984, the key seems to be to get off to a steady start, score in the middle and keep it together on the way in.

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That may start a slow and steady movement in the right direction, but I am not overly optimistic.

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As such, steady declines in start-up size, which stretch back more than a decade, could explain the slow labor market recovery following the previous recession in 2001, as well as today, according to Brian Headd, an economist at the SBA's Office of Advocacy.

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For the stock market, with its steady rise since the start of 2012 and in January 2013, it should pick up more steam this year, powered by a buildup of basic optimism as opposed to a fear-based market attitude.

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Robin Thomas left a steady job in the spring of 2012 to start his own venture, RGFT (Really Great Freaking Things).

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The weak economy might have inspired more students to start up their own businesses - with a steady upward entrepreneurial trend in self-employment.

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Oaktree received lower marks from analysts than Forum Energy and MRC Global and warned from the start that investors in its IPO should expect its financial results to fluctuate significantly, without steady earnings growth.

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As the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) pointed out in the economic report published with the Budget, Britain's market share in the export of global services was broadly steady after 2007, but since the start of 2012 it has fallen sharply.

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