• She got a famous character with a so-so story and no songs at all.

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  • Clever marketing helped Dietrich Mateschitz turn a so-so beverage into a billion-dollar brand.

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  • Little brings her more of a thrill than taking a so-so sentence and making it shine or giving an alright paragraph more of a punch.

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  • When I decided to break away from my cubicle-bound life, I was 23 years old, the daughter of a protective family in India and had graduated from university in Singapore only two years earlier with a not-so-helpful Economics degree and a not-so-comforting amount of student debt.

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  • If students facing large debts decide that a so-so course at a so-so university isn't so attractive after all, there may be summer sales, with places going cheap in clearing, or perhaps early-bird discounts for students who make a particular institution their first choice.

    ECONOMIST: The birth pangs of a market in higher education

  • Like we suspected, that astronomical name is attached to the conspicuously grounded Jasper: as long as the listing is accurate, we're looking at a 1.2GHz dual-core processor (toned down from the 1.5GHz rumor), a 4-inch, 800 x 480 display, a so-so 3.2-megapixel back camera and a 1.3-megapixel shooter at the front.

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  • But he does know the difference between a solid Emmys hosting job and a so-so one.

    CNN: Kimmel promises 'genuinely weird stuff' at Emmys

  • Xu's trick: a genetic quirk called a transposon--a so-called jumping gene--that his team stole from the genome of the cabbage looper moth.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • At the time, both sectors had been hit by the effects of the war in Iraq, a so-so economy and severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The latter, a viral illness first reported in Asia, was blamed for 774 deaths in 2003 and whipped up fears that aircraft cabins were prone to contagion.

    FORBES: Aerospace And Defense? Fly Commercial

  • There were subsequent plans to introduce an admissions system based on actual A-level grades - a so-called post-qualifications applications system - but this was abandoned last year.

    BBC: 'Unfair' university admissions claim

  • The law was written for two private corporations so that a tax -- so that a corporate raider -- and this happened in the '80s -- would buy one unprofitable corporation, use their tax loss write-off to benefit the profits they were making another corporation.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • But it's 20 times better than doing a so-so Twingo and then spending the next eight years crying about it.

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  • After a so-so training session, he tersely told her that she just wasn't jumping "anywhere near her potential" and that she could soar so much higher if she just believed in herself.

    WSJ: Suhr relishes breaking indoor pole vault mark

  • Phil Mickelson, enduring a so-so season despite winning at Pebble Beach, surprised everyone last week with mid-tournament rounds of 64 and 65 at the Scottish Open before fading in the final round to tie for 16th.

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  • Former PM Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, himself a onetime army chief, grumbles that civilians cannot possibly understand the workings of the military - a not-so-veiled criticism of his successor Chuan.

    CNN: A Fresh Approach

  • The big differences between a not-so-smartphone and a good one are the design, the keyboard and the connectivity.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And when a hitter turns a hanging slider or a not-so-fastball into a line drive, you can call it clutch hitting.

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  • It also packs a dual-SIM setup, a not-so-curious feature for Chinese handsets that often have to swing between different networks.

    ENGADGET

  • What do we gain, first, by releasing the memos, but, secondly, what do we gain from indicting lawyers for their opinions -- if that is a possibility here -- or holding a so-called 'truth commission.

    CNN: King: Crisis and controversy dominate Sunday talk

  • Mrs May also said measures would be taken to enable a UK court to decide whether a person should stand trial in the UK or abroad - a so-called forum bar.

    BBC: Gary McKinnon extradition to US blocked by Theresa May

  • But few people in Hollywood believe Iger will succeed Michael Eisner--a not-so-subtle slight to both men.

    FORBES: On The Cover

  • However, many Conservatives have been pressuring the government to commit to a referendum on the question of whether the UK remains in the EU - a so-called "in-out vote".

    BBC: Eric Pickles

  • To transport the one-ton rover and position it near the mound, engineers devised a complicated system that includes a 52-foot (16-metre) diameter supersonic parachute, a rocket-powered aerial platform and a so-called "sky crane" designed to lower the rover on a tether to the ground.

    MSN: NASA rover closing in on Mars to hunt for life clues

  • However, many Conservative MPs want him to go further and to commit to a referendum on the question of whether the UK remains in the EU or not - a so-called "in-out vote".

    BBC: Nick Clegg: UK 'valuable' to US partly because of EU

  • However, I do think there was a time, until a not-so-recent past, where there was a shame in getting caught.

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  • Mr George's lawyers indicated they would seek to appeal to the Supreme Court - a so-called "leapfrog" appeal.

    BBC: Barry George loses compensation case

  • But they do not breed more than once a year - so it is a long term exercise.

    BBC: Banker backs alpaca flock

  • "We may get to that point - if necessary - a so-called 'limited number' of visitors, " Mr Paolucci said.

    BBC: Sistine Chapel ceiling at 500: The Vatican's dilemma

  • Harris had a distinct agenda in taking the surveillance to the ultimate level and populating the bunker with extreme types: performance artists, political activists, filmmakers, and others hand-picked for a not-so-quiet experiment.

    FORBES: 'We Live In Public' is not how we live

  • Those specially trained dogs which round them up, hunters who wage aerial assaults, shooting the goats from helicopters, and finally what the conservationists confess is an underhanded weapon--a so-called Judas goat, which has a tracking device placed on it.

    NPR: Common Intruders Threaten Galapagos Species

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