As for the backlash against dumbed-down electronic dance music, that is now out in the open.
Some may think a master's degree offers so much more than a dumbed-down undergraduate degree.
"What they're showing you now is a dumbed-down version of what this technology is capable of doing, " she said.
A-levels to get to university is the new, dumbed-down, exam system for 18-year-olds.
Mr Harford, who works at the Financial Times, is an amiable guide for the non-specialist reader, neither too lofty nor dumbed-down.
And the money should be used for serious upgrades to the network, not dumbed-down information systems that tell passengers what they already know.
By the same token, in the highest rungs of even our dumbed-down democracy, cultural capital is a similar marker for career and mating success.
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Next, Montgomery wanted to remake Scott's line of low-end bikes aimed at women, which he says were previously just smaller, "dumbed-down versions" of men's bikes.
He has been formally advised by the Pentagon that continued adherence to it has required developmental tests to be curtailed, dumbed-down or otherwise made less useful than they could, and should, be.
It's a modern-day Western -- a souped-up and dumbed-down "Rio Bravo, " if you will -- with Schwarzenegger making like John Wayne as border town Sheriff Ray Owens, the last man standing between a runaway bad guy (Mexican drug baron Eduardo Noreiga) and his freedom.
The other mistake that has preyed on my mind has to do with the VW Jetta, which I crucified in a column a few months ago as being de-contented, dumbed-down and sadly cheapened Americanized, as part of Volkswagen of America's master plan to increase sales by lowering the brand's price point.
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And it does so in a dumbed-down Esperanto that its audience can't fail to understand -- the universal language of commercial TV sitcoms, with their constrained cultural vocabulary and their subtext of harmlessness: Don't be offended, none of this really means anything, it's just a goof about a lot of dumb stuff going down around us.
The former chief inspector of schools in England has been asked to examine claims that the exams watchdog, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), pressurised exam boards into lowering results to counter claims that A-levels had been dumbed down.
The positive statistics may not end the perennial debate over whether A-levels have been "dumbed down".
Over recent years, critics have said A-levels are being "dumbed down", with grades continuing to rise.
"More projects get made, more material is available, but a lot of it is dumbed down for the general audience, and the intimacy of fan-run conventions is now almost a thing of the past, " he said.
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