Merging these two underachievers gave Vasella the excuse he needed to vastly alter the business.

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The surfeit of sports data makes it easy to distinguish between bargain-priced players and underachievers with bloated salaries.

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These sporadic acts, often committed by educational underachievers, can usually be contained and managed by police and security services.

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This trio of underachievers has company when it comes to slow-starting teams, however.

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Owais Shah, one of England's great underachievers, is brought in, and fails with the bat - and let's face it - not for the first time.

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The surprise success stories feel obliged to parade around talking incessantly, if monotonously, about their wonderful lives, while the perennial underachievers cluster miserably around the punch bowl.

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Index underachievers embrace energy, healthcare, utilities and consumer non durables.

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As for Gloucester, they are the great underachievers at the moment, and their fans deserve better - Bryan Redpath is under pressure to get his players to perform.

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Can anyone believe they used be known as underachievers?

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The superhero movie stars Seth Rogen, famous for playing overweight underachievers, and is directed by Michel Gondry who is best known for the twisty hipster film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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