The result was vehicles such as the Ford Five Hundred--a high-quality but ho-hum-looking sedan that was supposed to be the brand's new flagship.
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Only this year did Dosoretz disclose to shareholders that he is a half-owner of a Florida company called Oncology Consulting Services that directs lower-paying HMO patients from Humana (nyse: HUM - news - people ) to radiation clinics owned by Radiation Therapy Services.
Major League Baseball's free agent shopping season is shaping up as a ho-hum affair.
And besides, who wants to be known for shoddy build quality and ho-hum designs?
The most interesting thing about the nation's most storied community is its hum-drum banality.
Amid reports of a ho-hum holiday season, you really have to wonder about current consumer mindset.
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After a decade of ho-hum results, magnetic memory got a boost with the discovery of giant magnetoresistive materials.
The Cruze replaces the ho-hum Chevy Cobalt, which just couldn't compete with other small cars in its class.
The reviews are unanimous: the Taymor version was a spectacular disaster, and this new one is a ho-hum success.
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"In a more ho-hum market it would be a huge challenge, " he says.
To avoid the typical, ho-hum answers, one company, The New England Consulting Group, uses a methodology called Super Groups.
When repurposed for uses that are ho-hum at best or redundant at worst, data is not nearly as interesting.
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She looks closely at the ho-hum holiday sales and sees few customers.
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The nearly edge-to-edge display lends the Yoga 11 a certain panache -- enough, possibly, to make you forget the resolution is a ho-hum 1, 366 x 768.
The new celebrity-chocked (Penelope Cruz, Courteney Cox Arquette, Lance Armstrong), teen-focused ads for Coke Classic are refreshing after a long spell of ho-hum advertising.
Perhaps he is hoping for a hoe-down on the Texas-Arkansas state line, with Mr Friedman and Ho-Hum trying to persuade other indies to run next time.
What showed up for the arrival photo call and on stage were clothes that ventured nowhere outside the realm of the ho-hum cocktail dresses and the sloppy.
Nationally, Martha Stewart Living's ratings in February dropped to a ho-hum 1.5 (one rating point equals almost 1 million TV households), down from 2.4 two years ago.
The flip side is that some funds that look ho-hum in a hot market have done a top-notch job of delivering returns and moderating risk in down markets.
All in all, the outfits of the singers and the occasional actors at the Billboard Music Awards have been ho-hum save for a bright spot in between the forgettable ensembles.
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Michael Niemira, chief economist of the International Council of Shopping Centers, sees a ho-hum spring selling season and expects sales growth in the 2013 spring season to be weaker than in 2012.
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Some moonlight in their new venture while holding down a traditional corporate gig, or use larger and longer freelance projects where the work might be ho-hum to balance out a growing portfolio of smaller, more exciting clients.
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Rounding out the ho-hum specs for all three devices are a USB 1.1 connection, SD slot, PictBridge support, and that old standby, QVGA video capture (thankfully it's at least 30fps), although so far pricing remains a mystery.
To that, Britain understandably says ho-hum.
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In spite of all this new technology, there's already some worry that the new iPhone might be ho-hum precisely for what hasn't changed -- from what we can tell through numerous shell leaks, the next iPhone may appear eerily similar to what we already know.
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