As for Intel, their batting average on forecasting even quarterly revenues accurately is truly spotty.
Once you manage to get on the airport Wi-Fi, access is often spotty and slow.
Yes, some consumers are spending, but any return of confidence is shallow and spotty.
McCaw could still call it a victory, particularly given his spotty history and Clearwire's iffy prospects.
Obviously McCartney is a brilliant songwriter, even if he's had a spotty solo career.
In the Wild West, when law enforcement was spotty or nonexistent, vigilantes sometimes stepped in.
Yet given all these advantages, a spotty financial performance is the best they can do?
Although the U.S. has loads of natural gas, adoption of natural gas vehicles has been spotty.
Closer to the heart of the disaster, collapsed phone lines and towers left communications spotty.
The speech received at least one hearty boo, and when it was over, the applause was spotty.
Doing this on a spotty internet connection is like trying to run a 10K in climbing boots.
Entrepreneurs are also turning to individuals--who have a long, if spotty, history as investors of last resort.
Conspiracy theorists exonerate spotty teenage stay-at-homes, blaming instead various governments and even the canny software makers themselves.
During vacation last week, I purposefully visited high mountainous places where data plans were spotty at best.
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Those Internet and mobile providers have since reconnected, though users have reported that communications remain spotty.
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The U.S. government is helping China get a handle on emissions levels and shore up spotty enforcement.
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Audio settings are designed to prolong battery life and ensure smooth streaming even under spotty network coverage.
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The result of all that lawmaking: lack of coordination, spotty sharing of best practices and ultimately, little accountability.
Each platform faces numerous technical hurdles, and the availability of either technology--let alone a choice of services--remains spotty.
Do her many international moves and spotty employment details read like the perfect cover-up for a deep-cover spy?
Insurance coverage for the procedure is spotty, physicians say, but at least some major insurers do offer reimbursement.
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That's a complex job, involving regional pricing, marketing and advertising decisions, and Coke's recent performance has been spotty.
Since 2001, the track record for drivers starting in front in the Daytona 500 has been pretty spotty.
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In the decades that followed, Britannica struggled through new owners, spotty sales, world wars and feeble attempts to innovate.
Over the next several hours, communications with the man were "spotty, " he said.
"It's still spotty and not uniformly effective, but there's increasing military pressure against the whole area, " concedes one diplomat.
While Clemens' endorsement activity has always been spotty, he's had some short-term successes.
Computer service on which its hosts were dependent was often spotty.
Godfrey obtained a court injunction forcing the phone company to restore access, but he says compliance has been spotty.
This has prompted some snide references to France's spotty war-time history and hints that it has something to hide.
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