Compaq, using Dell-inspired quick inventory turns, still manages to eke out a profit in PCs.
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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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.
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.
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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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.
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.
If the Liberals can tie the PQ to the movement's intransigence, Mr Charest might yet risk an early vote and hope to eke out a win.
While obviously unfavored by investors fortunate enough to eke out gains from the scheme, clawback litigation is often the single highest source of funds recovered for victims.
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" Another leading liberal analyst, Parag Khanna, envisions a "shrunken" America that is lucky to eke out a meager existence between a "triumphant China" and a "retooled Europe.
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The residents were primarily subsistence farmers trying to eke out a living through both crops and livestock, but the U.S. Army knew little more than that about them.
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Major U.S. newspapers continued to struggle with declining circulation during the six months ended March 31, although a handful of scattered exceptions managed to eke out modest gains.
Close to the end of the first official open-floor day at IFA, Samsung managed to eke out yet another product we want to get our hands on, soonish.
Mr Ferguson told BBC News it was "silly" to eke out the schemes because every time a new one was introduced it caused problems on the edges of that zone.
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