He wound up bouncing between both rolls in 2008 and then turning in a mediocre year as a starter in 2009.
Such behavior might make sense when a diner is willing to put up with a mediocre meal at a crowded chain restaurant to avoid the risk of food poisoning at a quirky neighborhood joint.
More often, a low risk stock is a mediocre, if not a laggard performer.
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Roddick took the tennis world by storm in 2000, when he suddenly morphed from a mediocre baselining junior to a power tennis monster with a 140-mph serve almost overnight.
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When we reviewed the original ClamCase, we found a few flaws that kept it from being a homerun: a cramped keyboard, a mediocre plastic build and a cumbersome power switch.
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Safin has played mediocre at a lot of events but that has forced him to get out there and practise.
Out of those mediocre, a few might come to find they actually do have it in them, and take it to the next level.
Going from productive to mediocre is a very upsetting process.
"Even a mediocre 401(k) plan with a match is a good one, " says Lee.
As the dollar has headed south, oil prices have skyrocketed and a mediocre Latin populist has transformed himself into a roaring mouse.
Or, if they had money, the artist could pay a mediocre gallery to show their work, a luxury that very few artists could afford.
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Today it ranks a mediocre seventh in sales and has been growing a tepid 5.7% a year, less than half the rate of some of its big rivals.
Semiconductor maker Micrel had a mediocre second quarter, missing analysts' predicted earnings by a penny and reporting a 7.3% dip in sales.
Semiconductor maker Micrel (nasdaq: MCRL - news - people ) had a mediocre second quarter, missing analysts' predicted earnings by a penny and reporting a 7.3% dip in sales.
Why should a student pay a giant tuition bill in order to be lectured by a mediocre grad student when videos of brilliant lectures can be had for a mouse click?
The movie about a couple of friends trying to keep love out of a sexual relationship costars Ashton Kutcher and it has gotten mediocre reviews earning a 51 out of 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.
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This year, they went from being kind of a mediocre team in the East the last few years to ... top in the East for a very long time.
When Weill and a small band of associates took over Commercial Credit , a mediocre finance company in Baltimore, the tale of infusing its branch managers with the spirit of personal entrepreneurship is a model of dynamically growing a tired franchise.
The car's styling forgave a multitude of other sins, including a penny-pinched interior, mediocre fuel economy and a rather heavy, trembling, fundamentally unathletic chassis that no amount of spring rates nor summer tires could mediate.
He ended up on Medicaid, in a 3 bed room in a mediocre nursing home.
Mass Effect was a mediocre third person shooter at best across all three games.
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It doesn't help that the company has a mediocre track record when it comes to acquisitions.
Cooper: Mayor Giuliani, your campaign manager week called Governor Romney a mediocre one-term governor.
They figured a mediocre car would sell if they were creative enough with advertising and promotional efforts.
His big problem is that although he is a passionate ideologue, he is only a mediocre demagogue.
Mr Gomez had refused to include Mr Bucaram's youngest son, a mediocre footballer, in Ecuador's under-21 team.
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And yet America, which leads the world in developing new drugs, ranks a mediocre 29th in life expectancy.
Chris Scannell missed a Reds chance while Linfield's Peter Thompson fired wide but it was a mediocre first half.
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