Timing can make a good sports investment look mediocre relative to the stock market.

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On the other, the academic achievements of its schoolchildren, measured in international tests, look only mediocre.

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It is undeniable that on an off day, Hoggard can look decidedly mediocre.

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In a rising market, leverage makes mediocre performers look like geniuses.

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Some WinMo vendors produced great devices, while many others produced mediocre devices that made the platform look bad.

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Companies are organized in such a way as to kill good ideas, not let them bloom, but at the same time they flood their pipelines with mediocre drug candidates in order to look busy, long before the development of those experimental medicines should have stopped.

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