Those mutual-fund managers are pretty poor stewards, rarely voting against the actions of executives.
We've had some pretty poor data out recently and that in turn will dampen inflation pressures.
The coverage of women's team sports in the media is pretty poor (guilty as charged).
The first security feature attached to the B standard was called Wired Equivalency Protocol and it was pretty poor from the get-go.
Which is a pretty poor showing for such a pillar of the community, such a poster child for responsible capitalism.
And, of course, trade--the US and the European Union are both pretty poor in their protectionist instincts towards the developing world.
Main roads are really good but side roads are still pretty poor.
He points out that the stockmarket is in fact a pretty poor barometer of the risks that people take in their everyday lives.
I've used the X-E1 in some pretty poor lighting environments (read: a nearly pitch-black bar to photograph some local bands) and came away highly impressed.
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Ironically, when a company is very successful and sales increase dramatically, the chances of it having a pipeline to support sustained growth are pretty poor.
In general customer service is pretty poor in the service world.
"It is a problem because we had a pretty poor performance in the first game and now we have lost this game, " he told BBC Sport.
Even the pre-scripted soundbites have been pretty poor of late.
But for any conservative party to find itself in the position of having to insist it is the party of ordinary people, not just the rich, is pretty poor.
And Charles Goodhart, a former MPC member, told Today presenter Evan Davis that higher commodity prices and a planned rise in the VAT rate "might make the inflation figures over the early winter pretty poor".
If this is indeed why the topic is so under-blogged, it may well be an unmovable reality of blogging, but it is a pretty poor excuse and we should be challenging each other to do better.
The peacock with the bigger feathers still gets the hen, the rabbit buck with the white tail still gets the doe and genes get exchanged between rich men and pretty women more often than they do between poor men and pretty women or rich men and ugly women.
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These are the places where mostly poor people send their children for learning Koranic teaching, basic education, and the other attraction, of course, is that there is free boarding and lodging over there, and with the Pakistani educational system in shambles, this is a pretty attractive place for poor families to send their children.
Indeed, up until this point, most analysts have agreed that the poor economy was pretty much the sole cause for the improvement we have seen in containing the explosion of healthcare spending.
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"The Fiji game at the weekend was all about game management and I felt the tactics were poor... it was a pretty gloomy weekend, " Turner said.
As it happens, for all the criticism of RBS, it has done a pretty effective job of shrinking its non-core and poor assets from many hundreds of billions of pounds to several tens of billions of pounds.
Johnson described the game, played in poor weather conditions, as "typical Six Nations, pretty attritional, " and said occasionally England needed to be more clinical.
The digEplayer 5500 has a 7-inch 16:9 widescreen LCD and comes loaded with about 10 movies, a few TV shows, and over 100 songs, which should be more than enough to keep you busy for the duration of your flight, and is probably more than the poor battery can handle (heaven knows our laptop batteries are looking pretty low after just an hour and a half of watching DivX movies).
Mississippi ranked last, mainly because it excludes medically needy patients, and Idaho came in second-to-last for pretty much the same reason--dinged for lacking a Medicaid fraud unit and for poor nursing home care.
"More than anything, I just want little kids today just to understand, ain't no matter what you do in life, be different, rich or poor man, guess what, it's OK to be who you are pretty much and you'll be accepted, " Rodman said.
The big-borrowing countries around the edge of the euro zone suffered a near-death experience in 2010, and they will be in a pretty miserable state in 2011 as austerity measures bite and households come to terms with their high debts and poor prospects.
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We were, however, pretty disappointed the system's lack broadband connection detection, as the video clips offered were extremely small, extremely poor quality, and rather short (read: wonderful for dialup users only).
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