Compaq, using Dell-inspired quick inventory turns, still manages to eke out a profit in PCs.
If they are lucky, they eke out gross profit margins between 20% and 30%.
But occasionally, AMD would eke out a sustained victory because of a youthful injection of creativity.
An astute manager is forever scanning the horizon for ways to eke out a critical advantage.
Enough of them, the industry hopes, to eke out a small sales gain over last year.
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Eric Schmidt, analyst at SG Cowen, predicts Ciphergen will eke out a slight profit in 2004.
They want just to find some way to eke out another 1% on their margin this year.
That's where Bristol managed to eke out some good news for the first time in a year.
Among them, however, was Skilled Healthcare (SKH), which managed to eke out a gain of 2%.
Many of them are immigrants trying to eke out a living in what appear to be knockoff costumes.
Together, they own two and a half acres of tangerine and olive trees, enough to eke out a living.
He could yet eke out a victory, if the field remains divided enough.
The Loan 100, therefore, managed to eke out a modest 0.07% return during the month, up from 0.03% in October.
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And as long as they resist the temptation to grow, these small ISPs should be able to eke out a profit.
The way the newspapers are all crashing and burning it's making it even trickier to eke out a living doing it.
He says Dana has lowered its break-even point and changed its product mix to eke out profits even in a downturn.
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Under their stewardship, Taiyuan has only been able to eke out sales of about 3, 000 trucks annually over the past two years.
But compared to the first half of the twentieth century we are spending staggering sums to eke out smaller and smaller gains.
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Profits feel increasingly difficult to eke out despite access to new markets.
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It appears to be the only one of 500 cashmere-producing goat ranches in the country to eke out more than a meager profit.
That one might eke out a greater gain over any other at the end of any given year is the luck of the draw.
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It is far more preferable to them to eke out a living in this country illegally than face slow starvation in their own.
So adding new services is one way for a rail equipment company like Bombardier to eke out more growth and possibly fatten its profits.
The best place to look is America, where a long period of low inflation has taught companies ingenious ways to eke out modest budgets.
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Living in Bihar, India's poorest state, Shailendra says that farming is one of the only options available to help him eke out a living.
The company was only able to eke out 150, 000 PlayBook tablets during this time frame, however, which no doubt contributed to these reduced numbers.
Instead, they prefer to eke out a living from subsistence farming.
Odd stadium dimensions were born out of the impossibility of standardization and will remain as teams seek to market their uniqueness and eke out incremental advantages.
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The trick is to know when to eke out a gritty, ordinary half-century, and when you are in terrific form and can take on the bowlers.
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