Sneakers were certainly a commodity cheap and standard and practical and generally not very good.
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Many people say that Atlas Shrugged is not very good literature, despite the amazing sales figures.
If you can't explain your physics to a barmaid, it is probably not very good physics.
And it turns out, that computers are actually not very good at distinguishing the two classes.
"I know this, when we turn the ball over we're not very good, " Crean said.
And he is not very good at handling criticism, especially from the newly free, pugnacious media.
The social scientists who study these things tell us we women are not very good at that.
We cannot feel it right now, but to be realistic, the situation is not very good now.
But, Dr Shultz said, overall, "non-human primates, apes included, are not very good at solving fairness problems".
Up until now, quite frankly, the science of how much water you use is not very good.
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Not very good in that those are the things that people tend to use mapping applications for.
Further, governments are often not very good at these functions, and cronyism is likely to creep in.
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The first couple episodes of American Idol are riddled with contestants who are not very good singers.
"The French are not very good at thinking outside the box, " he says.
The CSA was set up to go after those who refuse to pay and they're not very good at that.
That is doubtless good for business and the trade balance, but not very good for the battle against global warming.
Some people are just not very good with change that threatens their livelihood, even if the change offers to improve it.
Next came a scrapbooking store, where Dave noticed that the designs available for the die cutting machines were not very good.
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If you think one translation is not very good quality, when you put a speech system at either end, it gets worse.
But a highly classified wine can be expensive and not very good.
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Even so, markets are currently not very good at valuing environmental goods.
The building's majestic copper dome, he noted, had originally been made out of tile and apparently not very good tile, at that.
But even here there is a signal to be read: the signal of a person who is not very good at managing signals.
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Yet Mr Dewar's scheme is full of difficulties: who decides, for instance, that a landowner is bad, rather than just not very good?
"It's not very good, especially this time of year when we're having to walk to work in the dark, complete darkness, " Ms Twogood said.
It is also expensive and, in a country that abhors the casual brutality of the Anglo-Saxon labour market, not very good for public relations.
One of the reasons why Maryland and Rutgers have struggled financially is that their football teams are just not very good at a national level.
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"I wore my own clothes back then, which were not very good, and I cut my own hair, which also was not very good, " Ms. Williams said.
In practice, investors took fright at the prospect of the shares of thousands of companies (and not very good ones at that) being dumped on the market.
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