So liberal support ranges from middling to strong, whereas conservative support ranges from weak to middling.
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The obvious conclusion is that middle-income countries can and do compete with both, combining middling wages with middling levels of skill, technology and productivity.
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A game of Dota220 in a East Asia market—this is as specific a geographic descriptor as can be divulged—was scheduled between two teams of middling success and middling spectator interest.
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Looking back at the decade or so of cunnilingus I've received, I'd say this simulated version ranks precisely in the middle, but middling oral is better than pretty much any other middling act.
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It's fun, but the phones are only middling image quality.
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The batteries promise a middling 8 hours on a charge.
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The series debuted in April, earning middling reviews from critics.
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Middling farms now cover more of Zambia than small ones.
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So they hire middling talent, trained to do the same.
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There were good ideas and bad ideas and middling ideas.
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It is currently a middling "BB" with a "stable" outlook.
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And yet Apple's streaming ambitions have been middling at best.
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In war you cannot afford to be middling, or irresolute.
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In fact, despite some outwardly middling personnel, it's been good.
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Some of those performances have been electrifying, others merely middling.
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But when prodded, they come up with decidedly middling assessments.
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Of more importance to network executives, she delivered middling ratings.
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It's so good that Apple even aped it, with middling results.
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The middling ones were laid down 234m years ago, during it.
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Their rivals tried to elbow into the fray with middling success.
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Returns for middling performers have increased only a little (see chart).
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Edge and Safari share a middling 8 percent of fapster activity.
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She frequently tries to imitate Mr. Paiva's techniques, with middling success.
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Specs wise, you're getting mostly middling, rather than stand out stuff.
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The HomePod reviews are in, and the verdict is: It's middling!
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That's especially obvious in the great works built on middling books.
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"Then there are the middling teams that they stomped," Morrow said.
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They're still selling out concerts, but critical reception has become middling.
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Mr. Moore's kung-fu moves are middling, though his commitment is admirable.
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Wall Street's middling finish overnight may have also weighed sentiment in Asia.
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That may be wishful thinking, particularly given his middling finish in Nevada.
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Space Jam made another attempt four years after that, with middling results.
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It's not just that she's a middling speaker, but her speeches are
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For smaller projects, I rely on my (fair to middling) knife skills.
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Renault's Nico Prost and ABT's Daniel Abt have had comparatively middling seasons.
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Locke was middling as an ideologue, but remained a fiercely committed pragmatist.
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Peter went from being a middling Bachelor choice to a polarizing Bachelor.
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Administration officials insist this middling course has worked — at least so far.
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However, stock markets, which characterizes as "middling" this year, will be choppy.
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There are those who think that the middling among us perish forever.
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Yeah, but you were, and you did a fair to middling job.
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"Pure Country" was released in 21, and attracted middling reviews—"Fans of the star will enjoy it more than dispassionate observers," Roger Ebert said—and worse than middling returns, earning only fifteen million dollars at the box office.
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That price will get you a middling phone with an admittedly fascinating gimmick.
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But at $200, its middling accuracy made it more of a niche wearable.
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Peter Thiel attempted the same move, to middling success, with the Thiel Fellowship.
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Despite Instant Article's middling results, Facebook's power over publishers seems stronger than ever.
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The Beoplay Earset's immersion is middling at best, with outside noise leaking in.
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The movie itself was middling, earning a score of 69% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Britain's stance matters more than the middling size of its telecoms market suggests.
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Most of Jobs' effects up for auction are pretty middling, bordering on creepy.
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It received middling reviews and performed just so-so at the box office.
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Perhaps only Ohio State, which has thoroughly dominated a middling slate of opponents.
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These mild, middling tenders are no threat to anyone, much less to Popeyes.
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They're middling devices with outdated hardware that makes their inflated prices seem obscene.
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As expected, Bare Knuckle FC's card contains middling boxers and struggling MMA fighters.
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"Are the Earthlings are becoming more attractive?" a middling alien biologist would ask.
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Trump's approval rating is middling to bad: 43 percent approval, 54 percent disapproval.
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It wasn't helped by indifferent and middling reviews from critics, including Roger Ebert.
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Is extremity the antidote to bewilderment, to apathy, to the middling status quo?
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That may seem like a standout performance, but in reality it's only middling.
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Without him, the Heat fell to the middling Trail Blazers on Sunday night.
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Hastings gave probably the most middling support for net neutrality he could have.
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His cast of characters, nearly all of the middling sort, was extraordinarily varied.
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And then there's Uriah Hall, a middling middleweight with an affinity for spectacle.
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Sure, the sound is only fair to middling, but Apple made them ridiculously convenient.
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Popov felt trapped in Zhytomyr, in his life of middling scams and looming violence.
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Congress came out on top this week in elections in Punjab, a middling state.
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Design-wise, the handset also looks like a fairly bog standard middling Android handset.
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On Top Chef, Mistry was eliminated after three episodes, for a middling pasta salad.
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Unemployment remains high -- although it fell during Rouhani's first term -- and growth is middling.
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It's been a middling 2018 for Saturday Night Live in a lot of ways.
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The actors seem to have imbibed the same middling quality that permeates the film.
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While the post has garnered over 700,000 likes, its contents are middling at best.
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It's the same for the unreliable in-display fingerprint reader and middling battery life.
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For two seasons on ABC, "Agent Carter" was a critical darling with middling ratings.
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"The Ranch" is only a middling comedy, loaded up with corny and broad gags.
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Three stars for a restaurant might be excellent or middling, depending on the platform.
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Most movies can survive a middling score, a misguided performance, or an unimaginative premise.
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Korean singing competition phenomenon "The Masked Singer" made its way Stateside to middling results.
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Given its middling performance among emerging markets funds, its assets fell by 6.4 percent.
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Critics have almost universally praised the show, though the viewing numbers have been middling.
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The bank said pointed to a lack of policy visibility ahead for its middling view.
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If you get a high score, you do combat, a middling score is combat support.
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At Danaher Mr Culp succeeded by expanding a middling industrial firm through many disciplined acquisitions.
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Step Up deserves every bit of glowing fan fiction and middling critical reviews it gets.
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The higher number is for the audience score, at 72%, to the Tomatometer's middling 54%.
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I certainly can't chalk up years of middling results in the gym to willful ignorance.
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Here, we have a middling newcomer in The Boss stepping up to steal the spotlight.
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None of this is impactful however, because Sharma is saddled with a very middling cast.
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Despite middling reviews and skepticism on social media, strong presales on movie ticket site Fandango.
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Even with a middling plot, I found myself drawn to every room in The Bunker.
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It would be one thing if the Galaxy Note 7 was just a middling phone.
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The Yankees' hitters continued their recent trend of struggling against starters, no matter how middling.
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But the Pixel 3's performance feels limited because of its middling 4GB of RAM.
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As such, those handsets that qualify for the program are generally pretty middling, at best.
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By contrast, middling relationships are the best suited to pierce our much-bemoaned filter bubbles.
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But without middling relationships, those sorts of thoughtful, substantive interactions have become all too rare.
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Support from those free agents could make the difference between victory and a middling finish.
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The Evening Sale, which Artnet called "middling," realized $26,22,20203 with 22020% of the lots sold.
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There exists a vast middle tier of teams, though, with elite records but middling performances.
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Those middling results were in line with the company's trajectory over the past few years.
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Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Samsung and others have all taken stabs at wearables with middling success.
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But last Tuesday, they were sluggish in a 3-1 loss to the middling Islanders.
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But as a person with middling anxiety, the interactive element is what seals the deal.
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It's about putting up a middling game in garbage time against a historically bad team.
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At some point, a string of middling shows and way worse television isn't an accident.
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For what Fremeau labels an "elite" team, a group that by his definition includes both Alabama and Auburn this season, the strength-of-schedule difference between playing a middling opponent from a lesser F.B.S. conference and a middling opponent from an F.C.S. conference is minimal.
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In recent years, Myspace has attempted to pivot to a music-first site, with middling results.
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Sure, that's changed a bit nowadays, with Tebow middling in Double-A baseball with an injury.
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Most Call of Duty competitions pay out middling first place prize pools in the $50,23 range.
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So much writing on the web these days is mush, of low-to-middling nutritional value.
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For her follow-up transformation, Gwyneth tried her hand at organic spray tanning to middling success.
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The critical factor underpinning the last year of middling GDP growth was a "huge" inventory correction.
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In those of middling age, about 40% of the tracks have been laid down by dinosaurs.
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After graduating from Capistrano Valley High School with middling grades, Vardakostas headed to nearby Saddleback College.
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But Paul would stabilize a franchise that's stuck between a total rebuild and middling playoff contention.
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Elise the Trailblazer is a very strong legendary despite being a middling 5-mana 23/22.
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Two G.I. Joe films had middling domestic box office returns, then made back their investment overseas.
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His strong arm and quick release should help him reach the Rams' collection of middling receivers.
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The film's middling C+ CinemaScore signals that audiences agree with critics that the picture is flawed.
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Stepien unsuccessfully advised Trump against backing Moore -- a sign, his detractors say, of his middling influence.
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A number of roles in middling British films followed, including I Want You by Michael Winterbottom.
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Despite the Falcons' middling rush, Rodgers took four sacks and needed superhuman efforts to evade others.
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Transformational change will not come from the middling programs dreamed up by politicians in the centre.
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His wins are impressive against middling fighters but against top tier opponents he has fallen short.
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Darius Slay, Detroit Lions CB Remember that thing about middling teams brigading for Their One Guy?
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Something akin to a fair-to-middling algebra student being dropped into a multivariable calculus seminar.
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He attempted, with middling success, to turn the reticent Nixon into the first entertainer-in-chief.
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Trump is unpopular and consumer confidence is middling, but the underlying economic data is quite sound.
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I mumbled something about having been a middling high-school racer, back in the Reagan Administration.
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Pros: Very low price point, wetness indicator band, flexible leg cuffs and high waistCons: Middling absorbency
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Finally Jay Inslee, Washington state's governor, damned Mr Biden's plan to tackle climate change as "middling".
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But Labour ducked the chance to pay for its spending by increasing taxes on middling earners.
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Maybe speaking to extraordinary times is too much burden to place on one middling action fantasy.
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Bush — are hopeful that a third- or fourth-place showing injects momentum into their middling campaigns.
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This year's crop of middling superhero movies weren't good movies, nor did they have good villains.
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Yet the network's attempts to launch shows that might supplement Empire have been middling at best.
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Those middling ratings are accompanied by few positive feelings about the prospect of either being elected president.
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Breakingviews Anheuser-Busch InBev is getting the better of Asahi of Japan on three middling beer brands.
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Not because everything shown is necessarily bad, but because the gestalt of the fair is so middling.
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There may be no need for the ads and middling attempts at monetization that have characterized YouTube.
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In a world like that, I think all of these kinda middling, also-ran firms go away.
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It's just that, personally, I believe that life is too short to spend time on middling literature.
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But if you look at the company's stock price, it's had a bit of a middling year.
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It launched these with Bose first and only then announced its own Pixel Buds (to middling reviews).
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But it got middling reviews in both the US and China, and opened tepidly in both countries.
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The average benchmark "silver"—ie, middling—plan sold on the exchange will cost 22% more for 2017.
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It might just be August, and a middling quarterback's social consciousness briefly piercing the NFL's bulletproof surface.
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The middling numbers are probably due in part to the fact that Mod selection was pretty limited.
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He was a middling member of Nidaa Tounes before he was catapulted to the premiership in 2016.
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Diamond, another middling bank, was on the rocks before being taken over by Access, a bigger rival.
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The Priv, despite middling reviews at its release, is coming to all of the major US carriers.
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But supporters dismissed concerns about his middling polling position and relatively thin resume after hearing him speak.
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Confidence surveys that generate "soft" economic data have been strong; "hard" readings of actual activity been middling.
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It has a middling top speed of 12.5 miles per hour, and a range of 12 miles.
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Aristotle saw similar promise in the "middling" stratum he observed in the fourth century B.C. in Athens.
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Pagano is another of the middling mass of coaches I'd classify as good leaders but poor strategists.
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In 2014 I couldn't take one step in the lab without tripping over a middling Android tablet.
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As revenge-dramas go, this one is middling, with neither emotions nor actions quite hitting the mark.
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So he hypothesized that Snitker the player must have been a fair-to-middling minor leaguer, too.
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They didn't, and thereafter Lin was relegated to a subsidiary role on a series of middling teams.
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Yet ActRaiser's middling components somehow work together better in practice than they would seem to on paper.
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The middling reviews haven't helped build momentum, and it carries a paltry 29.196 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Stanford, which had an up-and-coming physics department, accepted him, despite his middling grades at Alberta.
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Following its financial losses and a slew of middling reviews, Carpenter vowed to become an independent filmmaker.
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But its high price tag and comparatively middling specs and feature set may not suit smartphone enthusiasts.
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Kenya has a middling 42.5 rating, whereas the United States rates even less well with a 45.
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Lincoln is there, of course, though his "strictly chin-beard situation" keeps him in the middling ranks.
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I was a fair to middling freestyler, but I really excelled on the one-meter diving board.
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So there's no knowing whether the show will get its verve on again after this middling start.
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It is a moonshot for China, whose teams have ranked poor to middling in recent international competition.
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But that feature only works with the middling Pixel phones, and the Pixel Buds aren't actually completely wireless.
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But getting a fat paycheck goes a long way toward making an otherwise middling job feel pretty awesome.
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With such middling approval ratings, we&aposd expect dozens of incumbents to lose their seats each election cycle.
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Just 80 southern resident whales currently exist, with numbers middling since government scientists began tracking them in 1974.
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Napoleon Dynamite, Monty Python, and Borat are all middling movies that have been quoted into oblivion and beyond.
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Roland Emmerich's sequel to his original 1996 blockbuster has been getting "mixed" responses, from middling to downright terrible.
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These are nice things to have, but the overall quality on offer from Honor is, once again, middling.
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" This spring has been even more unusual, with just a couple of middling outings of the "St. Matthew.
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But overall, the panel found it a touch too sweet, and the faux marshmallow texture got middling marks.
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The year before he was drafted, Toronto had a middling attendance record that ranked 288th in the league.
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The movie has received middling to good reviews, and currently has a score of 68% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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The main national league has been plagued by corruption, match-fixing scandals and a middling standard of play.
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All of this was pointed out by critics at the time, who gave the film mostly middling reviews.
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But as time has worn on, SSRIs seem more like just another middling tool in the psychiatric armamentarium.
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To be fair, Mr Manning struggled with a foot injury and was protected by a middling offensive line.
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In a few years, smartwatches have gone from dorky wrist computers with middling features to actually useful devices.
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In this general election, the connection will be more problematic for Hillary Clinton, given Obama's middling approval ratings.
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Keep that in mind if you're ever consoling a high school senior displeased with a middling SAT score.
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It may star known actors, but the episodes feel like they were ripped from a middling network procedural.
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But a movie with such bad reviews and such a middling box office just doesn't win Best Picture.
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In fact, it balances design and power so well that its fatal flaw—middling battery life—is devastating.
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"No one really needs this mostly middling, fitfully funny and never unpleasant movie," said LA Times' Justin Chang.
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He's not a perfect fit for the modern NBA with a middling 3-point stroke and shaky defense.
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If Hull didn't sign at least three middling Eredivisie players, the universe would succumb to instantaneous heat death.
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A month after her May 1, 2017, start date, Ms. Kelly's Sunday magazine show debuted to middling ratings.
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But try to hire a football coach with a middling record at a once-mighty Southeastern Conference university.
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I did middling as I tried to recall a list of words and flubbed a simple subtraction test.
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He cites those rising costs and the Netherlands' middling performance on life expectancy compared to its European peers.
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He took over a middling program at Temple in 1970 and raised its profile over the next decade.
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But an equally good reason to steer clear might be this: Its products and services are mostly middling.
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The super PAC has stepped in since Biden reported a middling third-quarter fundraising total of $15.7 million.
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With energy prices falling or stagnant, both have lost population and had middling economic growth in recent years.
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Women's sports as a whole get about as much attention as that of a single middling NBA player.
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Falling inflation and middling wage growth both suggest that these limits are some way off, for two possible reasons.
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His efforts were only of middling success as Carter ultimately proved to be unpopular with Democrats despite Mondale's efforts.
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A former boss of ARM, a British chipmaker, he transformed the middling startup into a world-beating tech giant.
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In high school, white classmates who opted to cheat off my geometry tests felt shortchanged by our middling marks.
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This is Valentine's Day, for goodness' sake, and there's no sense in sharing middling sweets with our special someone.
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Fans know that years of middling profits means that Step Up: All In will probably be the series' last.
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That's not to say RoT is bad, it's just that it shifts from great to middling far too often.
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To understand this skewed outcome, imagine a crude model that sorts borrowers into three buckets: good, bad and middling.
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Yes but: It is delivering only middling wage growth, lower for instance than the last expansion in the 2000s.
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As On the Threshold makes clear, Fontana continued to experiment and evolve as he went — often with middling success.
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Instead of using the a middling gas tax to fix our roads, why not charge drivers by the mile?
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Official statistics, which extrapolate from surveys of the general public, are good at guessing the incomes of middling sorts.
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Spielberg then hand-picked him for the job of directing Jurassic World, a bloated blockbuster that received middling reviews.
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The main camera, for example, uses a middling eight-megapixel OmniVision sensor, coupled with the stock Android camera app.
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The most profitable banks appear to be the middling ones, with assets of between $50 billion and $1 trillion.
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The Patriots have a great offensive line, and Atlanta's pass rush had been more middling than great this year.
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A snafu with a financial aid application leaves her attending a middling school instead of Yale, as she'd dreamed.
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That reflects the unique contours of the race this year and the middling state of the United States economy.
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With the Talk of the Town about gentrification, and the middling review of the play within the movie Birdman?
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That's a middling result for a movie that cost Annapurna $60 million to produce before accounting for marketing costs.
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Then, in Game 6, Curry played a middling (for him) game, fouled out, chucked his mouthguard, and got tossed.
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He'd make you buy ten middling watches, a few expensive but unusable bands, and maybe a few good pieces.
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Even in middling translations, it is a style that cannot be subsumed; Natalia Ginzburg can only sound like herself.
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She had changed the fortunes of a middling team that had not been to the N.C.A.A. tournament since 2005.
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She had changed the fortunes of a middling team that had not been to the N.C.A.A. tournament since 2005.
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Crucial game: The Chargers have fattened their record by throttling middling (or worse) teams, like Buffalo, Cleveland and Oakland.
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All this from a man who, at the war's outset, was a failed farmer and middling leather-goods salesman.
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Reviews of the Portal devices were middling to poor, and due to Facebook's soiled reputation leaned toward the suspicious.
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Ferak had been a middling student during her first three years at Dar Al-Hekma, an all-female university.
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The team's middling history has also failed to entice the local residents and persuade the newcomers to come out.
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He had been a middling student at Stuyvesant, but vaulted to the top of his class in private school.
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His ambition is not to create a middling alternative to the left and right, but to force a party realignment.
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Yet Mozilla turns out to be much more consequential than its mixed record and middling numbers would have you believe.
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Because of my middling score, however, I had to pay a $30 deposit before I could scan my first bike.
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In spite of a lack of such retail presence, Apple's numbers haven't been middling, but not terrible in the country.
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Microsoft also owns a slew of seemingly middling companies that apparently lost their hype under the enterprise technology giant's umbrella.
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The stated battery life is around nine hours — middling, but it should get you through a full day's use, unplugged.
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Sure, it can't touch the quality seen of high-end flagships, but it's not bad for a middling Android handset.
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The biggest change internally is the switch from last year's cutting edge Snapdragon 845 to a much more middling 640.
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He includes his own foray in this: In 2005, Mr Waters released his own opera, "Ça Ira", to middling reviews.
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The vast majority of laptops have pretty terrible built-in speakers, and even middling Bluetooth speakers are a major improvement.
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"FAIR to middling" is a common enough phrase, and there are others at which you can take an educated guess.
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His middling scenario is still dire: it expects deaths to increase by half, to 52,000 by 2019, before falling slowly.
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Record executives were no longer content to keep prestigious jazz artists on their labels if they just had middling sales.
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Image: GettyThis morning, CNN announced that it had acquired Beme, YouTube vlogger Casey Neistat's middling, authenticity-obsessed social media app.
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Though the rest of the aspects are fairly middling, including a 5.99 inch POLED display and a Snapdragon 845 chipset.
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He was also Nelson Mandela in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, a great performance in a middling awards bait biopic.
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Even the most middling new handsets are far more capable than high-end devices from a half-dozen years ago.
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James posted the contract to a Funko Pops fan subreddit last year, where it got middling attention from other fans.
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The Saints also have a terrific offense, while the Raiders defense started out bad and has settled at around middling.
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Already they've been disturbingly published in Goldman's middling story for the New York Times and multiple other cannibalizing news outlets.
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"228.43 will be a middling year for loans and volumes are likely to be marginally lower than 216," said Corrin.
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England went down 4-0 to a middling Australia side, stripped of the vice-captain's resilience with ball and bat.
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The 2016 revival brings back Damon, whose presence surely helped bolster the movie's box office take against middling critical reception.
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The U.S. economy, though, is in the eighth year of its post-financial crisis expansion, middling as it has been.
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Porcello's sparkling command, which fueled his transformation from middling starter to 22-game winner, deserted him, and the Indians feasted.
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Since it was released in February, the $349 HomePod has struggled with middling reviews, a high price, and limited features.
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The second sequel made it to screens after a long and tormented production history and landed to a middling reception.
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Despite winning a Nobel Prize and shaping the Iran nuclear deal and international climate change agreement, Obama is similarly middling.
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Middling efforts have burned listeners in the past — "The fakeness of bad audio fiction is really a turnoff," he said.
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She edited collections of Shelley's poems and wrote six more novels, with middling success, few of which are now read.
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Gravity Rush 200 starts and ends with middling marks, but the bulk of the game lets me do just that.
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"But if the activism is pretty middling, then it doesn't give the resistance the power and the leverage to move."
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It's more of a precursor, in which a man of middling power was punished for assaulting a very powerful woman.
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But there was a moment, there, that has stuck in the memory longer than that team's middling record would suggest.
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Especially when Zoom is reporting rising usage that could convert to revenue, Slack's middling guidance was just not good enough.
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He ranked 24th in strokes gained putting, after being a middling 97th in 2018, an improvement Sbarbaro describes as "huge".
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It's too easy, though, to pin the middling seasons of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown solely on the Kyrie Factor.
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The Saints appear to be in good hands with Bridgewater despite his middling results in relief of Brees last week.
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Ryan has tapped into growing frustration within the Democratic caucus over the party's middling electoral performance and entrenched leadership structure.
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But it was not enough against the Mavericks (16-29), a middling team that appears bound for the draft lottery.
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He has been middling on our 2020 Democratic power rankings, and may be trying to break loose from the pack.
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Rosalinda is mostly adding coverage that did not exist before — stories about high school floor hockey games, middling soccer matches.
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And yet, they complained, she was often promoted ahead of her peers, despite what they described as middling pilot skills.
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It received only middling reviews, but that didn't stop it from getting picked it up for a big-screen adaptation.
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WrestleMania turned on a dime from good to bad, which made the whole thing a middling exercise in the average.
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The problem with the middling Spider-Man films is that they failed to make Peter Parker feel like Peter Parker.
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Still, when Northwestern signs a class full of middling or slightly-above-middling players—Rivals ranks this year's class No. 48 nationally and No. 10 in the highly competitive Big Ten—you can be confident that, like the rest of the Wildcats' historically average classes, this one will come nowhere close to a national championship.
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Tarzan and Hercules both went live-action in recent (non-Disney) releases that did middling business, so there's no urgency here.
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" But Obama ranked fifth from the bottom on "relations with Congress," and got a middling 24th best score on "international relations.
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Ratner is right that, when it comes to the middling blockbuster films he produces and directs, success is about a number.
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Returns were middling, with the HFRI fund weighted composite index falling 20113 percent, only the fourth full-year decline since 1990.
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Some middling content network was sure to reach out about an adaptation soon, even though there was no real story there.
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Private-equity firms were once able to boost profits at a middling retailer by hiring new managers and untangling supply chains.
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The latter went public, initially popping around 20 percent, though it's had a middling time in the past month or so.
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The company's shares have had a big run recently after years of middling performance - climbing seven fold in the past year.
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Lights like the lights on the back of Alcatel's A5 LED, a fun feature on what is an otherwise middling handset.
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The Chromebook has fairly middling specs, but it looks to be nigh indestructible, as evidence by the vaguely upsetting image above.
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His show The Ranch is a "middling comedy, loaded up with corny and broad gags," according to the New York Times.
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It is 2006, and Greer Kadetsky has just started her freshman year at Ryland College, a middling institution in southern Connecticut.
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As children we set old logs against a middling elm, thatched branches into a sort of rooftop, called our dwelling Antelope.
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There's another debate for each of these middling contenders, but no guarantee they ever share a stage with the frontrunner again.
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True, the division improved underlying annual returns: ROTE rose from a dire 2.2 percent in 2017 to a middling 7.1 percent.
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During James' career, he's played on all different types of teams, from super-teams, contenders, middling playoff squads, to lottery teams.
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You have to do something that rises above all the middling attempts, because it can't rely on the strength of novelty.
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With a middling audience score of 56%, the movie has been called family friendly and a "safe pick for Halloween night."
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The Chinese also have not bought any of the most celebrated wine producers, opting instead for the middling and lesser-ranked.
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The Kings were statistically the N.H.L.'s best defensive team last season but had a middling offense that lacked scoring depth.
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Though the film underperformed at the box office, and received middling reviews from critics, it struck a chord with young men.
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But the price has since rebounded, and oil now trades in a middling range, and the Venezuelan economy continues to crater.
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The wager consisted of three parts, including his predictions for where certain mature, middling, and young startups would be by 2100.
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Just as all of America's recent wars have ended in middling draws-cum-losses, Iran's have ended in draws-cum-wins.
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Opening Day of the impeachment hearings hardly hit blockbuster status, generating middling viewer interest compared with other Trump-era political hearings.
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Biden's position in Iowa and New Hampshire, overwhelmingly white states packed with college-educated Democrats unexcited by his candidacy, is middling.
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For his first few years, those who knew him said, he worked in minor jobs at middling firms like Marcus & Millichap.
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Just look at 28-year-old Wu Lei: the Chinese striker played for Shanghai SIPG before joining middling European club Espanyol.
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But N.F.L. teams were uninspired by his middling dash times and his lack of size (barely 6 feet and 190 pounds).
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That special — which featured interviews with Mr. Trump, the celebrity lawyer Robert Shapiro and the actress Laverne Cox — received middling reviews.
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Why it matters: Prices had been middling for months thanks to the sluggish global economy, U.S. production growth and trade fights.
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Most people drank fair to middling soju, and soju distillers were making bricks without straw by using tapioca instead of rice.
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A middling to moribund program for the last 833 years, Rutgers, at 4-2247, seems to have hit a new low.
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His debut novel, "We Begin Our Ascent," recounts a week toward the end of a Tour de France while interweaving episodes from the life of his unnamed first-person narrator, a middling British racer on a middling Continental team — the back story of how he met his wife-to-be, Liz, the birth of their son and so on.
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They are a middling score-adjust possession team (49.7 percent) and probably will be just that for the rest of the season.
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The phone maker is known for selling outdated Android devices with middling specs and luxury stylings like raspberry pink ostrich leather cases.
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The former president graduated from high school with middling marks and penned just five sentences to explain why he belonged at Harvard.
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Over all, Arroyo had a middling career, spending all or part of eight seasons in the major leagues with four different teams.
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Restaurants with a middling rating are about 14% more likely to shut down when the minimum wage goes up by a dollar.
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The Apple Watch continues to be a bright spot in amongst the middling world of wearables, according to new numbers from Canalys.
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It's unfortunate that Future Man is tarred by this familiar dynamic and this current cultural moment, because it's more middling than malevolent.
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Coach Rich Rodriguez was considered to be on the hot seat and another middling season might have ended his tenure in Tucson.
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LEW's clunky page bears the pithy tagline "welcome to our website," and its content is as aggressively middling as its web design.
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Out of a portfolio of, say, 2500 investments, the chances are that 22.5 will fail and 20 might produce a middling return.
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In fact, after the middling box office of 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II almost never got made.
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A developer can push it the same day the game launches (No Man's Sky did this to middling success) or days later.
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It was cancelled after only three series, after middling reviews (one called it a "murderously unfunny smug-a-thon") and poor ratings.
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And we definitely don't need to see Jack Stone continue battling excema and allergies and a middling career as a bottomfeeding lawyer.
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It's an app of middling popularity in the west but, in Asia and among the Chinese diaspora, China's WeChat is a phenomenon.
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" By the time they disbanded in 2014, they had never quite escaped the peat bog that is being a middling "buzz band.
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Thomas Bellemare, selected 27th, last played in 303 for the Trois Rivieres Caron and Guay in the middling North American Hockey League.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whom Gates advises, has only weighed in by re-tweeting a middling trade association endorsement of Apple's position.
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I think Jon Hamm is a middling actor, and cake is dry powder that would better serve humanity as a foam mattress.
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Ahead of E3, video game publisher Ubisoft shared the first details and footage for the sequel to the middling open-world game.
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This partly explains why the best ones were able to take advantage of greater autonomy whereas middling ones did not, he suggests.
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It was a middling debut by summer standards, though understandable coming one week after the smash hit Guardians of the Galaxy arrived.
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That being said, consider this: Aaron Rodgers was embarrassed last week, and he now gets to face a middling defense at home.
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A high income tax and a low sales tax together result in a greater federal deduction than would middling rates for both.
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It seems reasonable to help the poorest in society move up, but that could make the middling sort feel even more unsettled.
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As the Yankees plod along with a middling record — and the worst offense in the American League East — that could be changing.
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We'll save space for it next to The Da Vinci Code on the shelf of bestselling books that made for middling movies.
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He drew middling reviews and cemented a reputation as a badly behaved bed hopper with an insatiable appetite for alcohol and drugs.
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He's aged, been to law school, held several jobs, lost a brother, fallen in love — and yet he's still a middling hustler.
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His FIP, or Fielding Independent Pitching — an attempt to measure a pitcher's effectiveness independent of his team's fielding — was a middling 4.29.
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Mr. Cruz, whose given name is Rafael, is a Cuban immigrant's son who speaks middling Spanish and wants to build the wall.
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Not every shot on your smartphone will be Instagram worthy, but you can often salvage middling snaps with just a few taps.
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My parents were divorced and rarely spoke; I went to three middle schools in three years, one bad, one middling, one good.
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But there has also been pushback the last two years to the Super Bowl passing up excellent women performers for middling men.
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It was programmed at other prominent fall festivals, including Toronto and New York, and earned middling-to-positive reviews from critics overall.
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This year, a movie starring Sophia Lillis, had a limited release and like all Nancy Drew adaptations before it, earned middling reviews.
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Our food at the sushi place was middling; Bourdain avoided the fish and ordered chicken katsu, most of which he left uneaten.
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And, well, it all just left me flat, thinking that the controversy was the greatest marketing tool for such a middling movie.
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The show received middling reviews from critics, but that didn't stop people from bingeing their way through it, sometimes more than once.
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The special mac sauce adds an addictively creamy tang, while the layers of dry bun and middling beef respectfully do their jobs.
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The explosive reaction to Kristen Roupenian's "Cat Person" in the New Yorker revealed how common this troubling, middling type of dude was.
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How do you measure three hours of chaotic visuals and middling audio most of us were never meant to see and hear?
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However, despite the middling numbers of congresswomen overall, the election won women of color a record number of 38 seats in Congress.
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US Master Spieth (68) also shrugged off a middling front nine to be one of six players to tie for fifth on 277.
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Her total score, after a similarly middling short program, left her in 10th place, between teammates Bradie Tennell (ninth) and Karen Chen (11th).
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A lot of those movies — with the exception of Bridesmaids — were middling experiences, following the same sequence of raunch, alcohol, disaster, and redemption.
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Specs on the Yoolox are middling for the $79 price tag: its a 10,000mAh charger with both USB-C and USB-A outputs.
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It's a budget device, of course, priced at $160, sporting a 5.99-inch screen, a middling Snapdragon 439 and dual rear-facing cameras.
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That boosts it from a middling position among its European peers, but still leaves it behind Deutsche and UBS, its bigger Swiss neighbour.
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The series, despite the middling reviews for X-Men: Apocalypse, is on an upswing after the successes of Deadpool, Logan, and FX's Legion.
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Polaroid, having gone through two bankruptcies, continued to survive by licensing its brand here and there to middling digital cameras and other products.
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In 20163 Ross Perot won the medal for the best popular vote performance of a recent independent candidate—a middling showing of 19%.
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Or should I stick to comparing 2018 with 2017, when I gave VR a middling C grade and didn't even talk about AR?
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The middling result was propelled by a strong increase in consumer spending and government spending, which rebounded after the government shutdown in January.
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Despite middling approval ratings, McConnell easily prevailed during his last campaign in 2014 over Kentucky's secretary of state at the time, Alison Grimes.
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Perhaps it's no surprise, then, that as this fall art season gets underway, Chelsea feels overrun with A-list artists making middling work.
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I assume this movie will be as middling as all of the X-Men movies, but not while she is on the screen.
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But almost no one holds a middling position on Brexit, so both Labour and the Tories are pitching to the extremes (see article).
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That was slightly less than the $13.9 million paid this month in New York for a middling quality 1990 Christopher Wool word painting.
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Gonzaga regularly hears a different refrain that suggests they aren't a championship-caliber squad because it plays in the middling West Coast Conference.
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"The Americans," an FX drama that has received middling ratings but nearly universal acclaim from critics, will end in 2018, FX announced Wednesday.
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The fat-shaming, such that it even exists, is brief and nowhere nearly as harmful as the middling idiocy of the entire effort.
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Perhaps it is just another overhyped tech darling, buoyed by an industry that has a history of supporting middling companies with charismatic founders.
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He asserted that public opinion was on his side, pointing to his campaign's fundraising haul and middling support for impeachment in swing states.
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Clinton's expectations, partly because of her middling performance in the campaign so far and partly because she has pneumonia, are also very low.
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The first production, in 21672, was the middling operetta "The Witch," by Abraham Goldfaden, regarded as the father of the modern Yiddish theater.
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Some of these games were excellent, most were middling, and some were awful—the usual spread in any popular genre, at any time.
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Leak the client files of a single middling law firm in Panama City, and you can take down governments half a world away.
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Though the early reviews were middling, Google believes the next generation of gaming will involve continuous, cross-device play, including on mobile devices.
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But U.C.L.A. has won only one title since 215, and it is now only a middling power in an age of increased parity.
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For their part, Democrats are weaponizing the tax law — which is mired in only middling popularity — against Republican opponents in some key races.
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His White House has been chaotic, he is more rhetorically reckless than Biden, and he is also a septuagenarian in middling physical health.
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He covered John Lennon's "Isolation" with such crystalline intensity that it drowned out Mumford and Son's middling whelping at the nearby main stage.
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It's possible to see how Hughes' association with elitism was in fact born from defiance — a defiance of the middling expectations of home.
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Two years earlier, I'd been at the top of my high school class and an enthusiastic if middling member of several sports teams.
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Three years ago, when the Blue Jays had a middling record, their strong run differential persuaded Anthopoulos to fortify the roster in July.
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But otherwise, this auction settled into a metronomic session of middling-value works by "investment-grade" names valued between $300,000 and $3 million.
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Air America, the nationwide liberal talk-radio network, declared bankruptcy and stopped broadcasting in 2010 after six years of middling to abysmal ratings.
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A divided country and uninspired economy The result of all this has been an open polarization of Mexican society, and a middling economy.
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Those middling ties might comprise your neighbors, friends from your book club, buddies from your basketball league or members of your church choir.
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While it's a beautiful smartphone on the bleeding edge of innovation with its foldable screen, its specs and feature set are rather middling.
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The good news for the Yankees, whose losing streak was their longest in a decade, is that they are not among the middling.
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On Wednesday evening, Petroleo Brasileiro SA, as the firm is formally known, posted a record 2019 profit, though quarterly results were somewhat middling.
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Netflix is producing more originals than ever, but many of these are now of middling quality or are cheaper-to-produce reality programs.
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When you consider Warren's middling standing just a few months ago, that's a heck of a surge to the front of the pack.
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Too many lower cost basic tool sets include inferior tools and try to compensate for the middling quality with an abundance of items.
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But their middling offense got few upgrades, and right fielder Gregory Polanco will spend at least the first month recovering from shoulder surgery.
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Despite the laundry list of challenges and the very little progress made thus far, this is not the time to be caught middling.
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It makes one suspect that Climate Change: Part One's middling, Hollywood-blockbuster conceit trades on this counterproductive sensationalism as a ploy for attention.
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That lump of goo knows about neutron stars, black holes, neutrinos, and a middling number of the flora and fauna here on planet Earth.
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While All the Money in the World is garnering fair to middling reviews from critics (including me), many reviews praise Williams's and Plummer's performances.
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It's a wedge-shaped device with a middling seven-inch touchscreen tablet built-in, flanked by a webcam and a big, ugly speaker grille.
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With its nondescript decor, void of personal effects on the white walls, it could have well served as the office of a middling therapist.
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This show is an important one, and after a shower of middling Marvel content, Jones looks like it can shake up the status quo.
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A middling record in a player's first ten majors is hardly the death knell for a career, but it does serve as a warning.
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Clearly, Manley was inspired by Keurig, the moderately-functional, dorky coffee machine, and hoped to build a similar middling product in the marijuana industry.
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The only one that I could find that matches the Solo 21 on battery life is Sony's DRBTN2300, which seems to have middling sound.
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Reaper's large body and middling movement speed make him an easy target for McCree's Flashbang, though it's more effective to aim at his feet.
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Despite his later fame as an orator, he never got higher than the middling grade of C+ in public speaking, according to the school.
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The good news for the ecosystem is that there will be fewer middling companies that are surviving on the backs of these tourist investors.
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While many states in the US have passed laws specifically addressing revenge porn, up until now, Canada's response to the issue has been middling.
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The game's predecessor, the not-so-catchily-named Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, came out in 2008 and received middling reviews from critics.
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Neither did the cuts arrest troubling trends like expanding income inequality, middling wage growth, and the rising costs of housing, education and health care.
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There's a chunky 3,500mAH battery and a middling Snapdragon 660, coupled with a generous 6GB of RAM and either 64- or 128GB of storage.
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So, I've had few new reasons to return to ToeJam and Earl, barring a middling threequel on the original Xbox and the occasional rerelease.
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He expressed confidence in his position on the issue, pointing to his campaign's recent fundraising hauls and middling support for impeachment in swing states.
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Economists polled by Reuters gave Abe middling marks on his economic accomplishments and projected the BOJ's next move to be a withdrawal of stimulus.
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Some of those middling affairs, while holding up pretty creakily today, really didn't seem like complete disasters at the time: step forward, Triple Trouble.
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You've got a heart-rate monitor, GPS and a battery that should give you a fairly middling 24 hours of life on a charge.
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Actually, this honestly feels like it could be a starting point for a middling episode in the newest season of Black Mirror, isn't it?
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It's a pity that the omakase ends with unagi in a sauce as cloying and perfunctory as at any middling sushi bar across America.
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Several states — particularly Midwestern farm states — have taken a bigger hit than Pennsylvania from the tariff broadsides since it's just a middling soybean producer.
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Tech Tip Not every shot on your smartphone will be Instagram worthy, but you can often salvage middling snaps with just a few taps.
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After the team fell, 4-3, to St. Louis despite outhitting the Cardinals, 10-3, Callaway recognized the mounting disappointment for his middling squad.
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The Giants, who—coming into the game—were ranked 24th in offensive yardage, averaged just 03 yards per play against the middling Bears defense.
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The survey data comes on the heels of a middling monthly jobs report that showed U.S. job growth slowed more than expected in August.
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The survey data comes on the heels of a middling monthly jobs report that showed U.S. job growth slowed more than expected in August.
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They are a middling power in a region filled with nations and non-state actors who oppose them on political and religious grounds alike.
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The sort of thing concocted by men whose collegiate experience taught them little beyond how to turn self-serving reminiscences into middling indie movies.
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Aside from an occasional breakout hit like "Blue Jasmine," from 2013, the box-office returns for Allen's recent films have been middling or worse.
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Stengel's achievements are unimpeachable: After middling stints with Brooklyn and the Boston Braves, he claimed ten pennants and seven World Series with the Yankees.
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The comments came as Warren looks to get back on her feet following two middling performances in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
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Warren secured a $3 million line of credit As her campaign struggled with middling poll numbers in January and a high burn rate, Sen.
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I was ready to give the Moto X4 a middling to negative review when a colleague asked me about phone recommendations, specifically non-iPhones.
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And given his poor fundraising through the end of September and his, uh, middling debate performances, there are some real facts behind that perception.
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The Rockets are well-positioned to take advantage of a team with a middling defense thanks to Harden running Mike D'Antoni's system to perfection.
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But the movie got middling reviews, and it turned out to be the last Gibson film to see a theatrical release for five years.
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As this strategy has begun to bear middling returns, the metric of choice has shifted to engagement—a creator's ability to move fans to interact.
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Iran isn't just one middling country, but potentially the start of a global anti-American uprising that could overturn the world as we know it.
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All of these middling candidates are resorting to jaw-dropping backdrops, desperate-sounding email pleas for contributions and cleverly orchestrated moments intended to go viral.
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The organization was considered a middling menace until it ramped up operations in war-torn Syria in 2013, thereby transforming into the now-familiar ISIS.
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It's a middling amount when compared to the National Science Foundation's 963 budget of $8 billion, and LIGO's cumulative expenditure of more than $1 billion.
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Boss spoke at the end of a rough few weeks for retailers, during which weak guidance and middling earnings hammered many stocks in the sector.
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What's more, Fissure's hero pool isn't immaculate, as his Orisa and Wrecking Ball are at a middling level compared to the rest of the field.
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As long as the total number of H-1Bs remains capped, eliminating workers with middling skills might actually free up slots for more enterprising immigrants.
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In 2012, Kat appeared in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, an aborted attempt to cordon Sony's roster of exclusive characters in a middling fighting game.
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First, Purdue Pharma, a middling drugmaker that, as opioids' most prominent promoter, has become synonymous with their abuse, is no longer on trial in Oklahoma.
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Boockvar pointed out that U.S. economic growth overall remains fixed along the same middling path it has been since the end of the Great Recession.
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Impressive build and quality fingerprint sensor aside, the middling camera, frequent software hiccups, and UI in identity crisis is a death by one thousand cuts.
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If anyone could revive what remained of the SPD's traditional base and meld it with urban liberals and middling Merkel voters, it was surely he.
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It's got a 6.39-inch display, coupled with a middling Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 and a beefy 3,600mAh battery that the company rates at two days.
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As much as he's trying to avoid reading the middling-to-poor reviews of Justice League, it sounds like the disappointment is getting to him.
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And if it wasn't for that failure, he would have been a middling cartoonist drawing Oswald the Lucky Rabbit for the rest of his life.
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The Gulf carriers have to use bigger, more expensive wide-body jets that are great for long-haul flights but less efficient for middling distances.
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Someday, he would become a middling white NBA player, and someday he would get yoked on in a playoff game, sent tumbling to the floor.
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A middling trumpeter (say, one in a student band) appears to struggle against the music, and will finish a phrase upon running out of breath.
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The war has cost almost 2,300 US lives, billions of dollars, and yielded middling success since President George W. Bush launched it in October 2001.
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Matt Damon's fourth starring role in the series opened at the top of the box office last week, but with a middling $59.2 million purse.
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If a middling recruit wouldn't commit to being on the team regardless of coaching changes, coaches will get rid of them and find someone else.
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Two of the losses in that span have come againsta middling Illinois squad, which has gone 4-9 against the rest of the Big Ten.
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Yet this middling set piece didn't detract from the episode's real pleasure: watching Madison, Strand and Alicia continue to adapt to the new world order.
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This was a somewhat dispiriting affair, with a middling cast and a genial but indistinct performance by the Knights, under the direction of Eric Jacobsen.
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It is the plot of the coming-of-age story, grist for dozens of classic 19th-century novels (and yet more middling 20th-century movies).
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Week 11 of the NFL season was a middling one for our best bets, with our picks going a solid 6-8 against the spread.
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Even in the pros, it would have been at least a charging penalty; in a middling no-hit beer league, it was beyond the pale.
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A favorite to win the Maui Invitational, Indiana instead lost to both Wake Forest and UNLV—two middling teams—and struggled against awful St. John's.
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The bullpen, however, is middling, aside from Craig Kimbrel and Tyler Thornburg, so the Sox will likely aim for deep outings from their top three.
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Despite middling approval ratings, he's kept a tight hold on his base — one that has only grown stronger since the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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There was little reason to attend a middling second-division match here on the last day of September, but Junichi Onishi, 23, had an assignment.
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And as someone with a middling understanding of politics (especially around this newsroom), I often languish somewhere between glazed over and confused during election seasons.
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Those who believe Sellers will not be more than a middling marathoner point to her age and best times, which are far from world class.
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Cibulkova, who reached a career high of No. 4 in March last year, has had more middling results this year, with a 14-13 record.
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At first Charlie liked the reassuring hum of middling celebrity, as "when a stranger's face morphed into surprised delight" upon recognizing him in the street.
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The latest installment of a rivalry rooted in decades of antipathy featured one mediocre squad playing another, in a middling division suited for them both.
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And she's seen middling national polling among African American and Latino voters, two groups that are central to strong performances in Nevada and South Carolina.
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The new Razr comes with middling-yet-decent specs, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 chip that was released in 2018 and 6 GB of RAM.
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It is not clear, he said, how city residents will react to a middling or even low grade of their home or place of work.
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Though Argentina reaches the final of the 1990 World Cup in Italy, Maradona delivers a middling performance and is reviled as a washed-up villain.
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Many thought the Bucks would be a middling playoff contender last season; instead, they won 60 games and made it to the Eastern Conference Finals.
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Nearly half -- 46% -- say Francis is doing a "poor" or "middling" job on the issue, up from 34% who said the same three years ago.
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In a large cap universe of middling growth prospects, we think these fundamentals position Vertex as the 'must own' biotech for large cap growth investors.
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Sales have been middling; last week it grossed $759,699, which is 53 percent of its weekly potential, according to figures released by the Broadway League.
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Takeda, a $34 billion drug maker, is spending $5.2 billion, a 75 percent premium, for Ariad Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company with a middling cancer drug.
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They are still just three games out of a playoff spot in the middling Eastern Conference but also appear to be at risk of fracturing.
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Nathan Morlando's more middling coming-of-age film "Mean Dreams" is bolstered by a career-best supporting turn from Bill Paxton as an alcoholic father.
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Week 13 of the NFL season was a middling one for our best bets, with our picks going a solid 8-8 against the spread.
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Week 12 of the NFL season was a middling one for our best bets, with our picks going a solid 6-8 against the spread.
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That minor league systems are saturated with middling prospects and draft rejects who, with the proper instruction, could fit the archetype of the modern reliever.
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But of our two arguing factions of golf fans, the cynical oldies would be right: this year's champion was a middling one on an exceptional course.
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But after all that, the only TV products Apple's ever produced are a series of Apple TV boxes and a couple of extremely middling reality shows.
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Pundits and players have put forward several explanations for the middling scores, including difficult pitches, some excellent bowling and the pressure of competing in the tournament.
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It is not perfect — I'm disappointed by the middling battery life and I'm baffled as to why Google hasn't tried harder to improve video recording quality.
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The Bruins surged from middling club to contender at midseason and fended off a rally from Toronto in the first round to win in seven games.
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But since the rise is being fueled by a reduction in supply, the Fed could be grappling with higher inflation and middling economic growth, he said.
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Will he feel insecure, you wonder, about his lack of sophistication, his middling literary ideas, his friends who work at renaissance faires and not Ralph Lauren?
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And once he did take the helm, he did little to instil confidence, completing just 56.4% of his passes and earning a middling rating of 20003.
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Though it's impossible to say for sure, it's reasonably likely that's how middling-popular nominees like Seabiscuit and The Full Monty made it into the race.
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Because everyone knows music is supposed to sound better when you're high and it's no secret most of the music here ranges from middling to bad.
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A series of middling to terrible game-to-movie adaptations tried to harvest games of their audiences, leaving both filmmakers and game publishers bitter and skeptical.
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The typical portfolio manager at a firm running more than $4 billion with middling-performance is expected to make an average of $2.23 million this year.
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If we're not going to legalize, there's a middling approach, which would be to improve the way we do policing such that it's more community-oriented.
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It's a very small world, by series standards, but it felt like a coherent place, not a random assortment of middling activities separated by obvious roads.
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And yet the entire thing gets derailed by middling performance that makes the $550 price feel ludicrous and a lack of any one legitimate "wow" factor.
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He's ambitious, wants to become prime minister – but at present, is only at a middling level in the bookmakers' odds on who will follow Theresa May.
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The American Health Care Act, Republican's so-called replacement, received middling support even from Trump voters and this year there is very little support for repeal.
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When Jill Harth told the Guardian this summer that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump attempted to rape her in the late 1990s, the article received middling attention.
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If approved by the World Bank's board of directors, Malpass would lead the international lender's efforts to fund economic development projects in poor and middling countries.
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Inflation is low, employment is high, wages are middling but decent, and consumer spending is solid, trends that Cramer said are typically not supposed to happen.
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Clinton, but not by enough in the model to make up for middling economic growth and the country's traditional desire to head in a different direction.
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The Pixel 4 phones will run on the chip-of-choice for 2019's premium smartphones, but rumors suggest it'll have a middling spec for RAM.
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Microsoft representatives wouldn't tell me exactly how much bandwidth will be required, but it was clear that the middling convention center internet at E3 wasn't enough.
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If approved by the World Bank's board of directors, Malpass would lead the international lender's efforts to fund economic development projects in poor and middling countries.
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The truth of the matter is, whether or not Luke Shaw had a middling performance at right-back, Manchester United should have beaten Watford this weekend.
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Last weekend, our picks went a middling 3-4 against the spread, thanks in part to some dreadful misjudgement of Michigan's blowout win over Notre Dame.
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The Yankees offered two middling prospects for Bruce but refused to pick up more than a small portion of the $3.7 million remaining on his contract.
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Months removed from that burst, though, Buttigieg's polling has largely remained static, with middling single-digit numbers that consistently land him behind candidates like Massachusetts Sen.
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Brash, nasal and opinionated, Mitzi Shore took a middling comedy club on the Sunset Strip and for a time made it the center of American comedy.
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Week 1063 of the NFL season was a middling one for our best bets, with our picks going a solid 8-7-1 against the spread.
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Two years after his Super Bowl win, he was replaced by a middling backup and, with no offers from another team, retired after the 1989 season.
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The milestone on the jobless rate came with a middling increase of 29,2000 in payrolls and revisions that reduced the gains in the previous two months.
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Week 14 of the NFL season was a middling one for our best bets, with our picks going a solid 983-7-1 against the spread.
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Private sector involvement could be trickier, not least of which because the president's support of so-called public-private partnerships, or "P-3s," has been middling.
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But despite a middling game from the likely MVP, the Ravens were dominant against a Bills team that had lost just three times heading into Sunday.
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Rajapaksa's campaign targeted the government's middling economic record, and its attempt to impose higher taxes, promising Sri Lankans a return to more confident, outward facing rule.
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The Hero followed not long after the company killed off its drone division—whose Karma drone launched to middling reviews, a major product recall, and then layoffs.
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Except when the X60's old-school 60:3 12-inch display and middling 1024 x 768 resolution made editing photos a serious pain in the ass.
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But this year alone, shares of Apple are up nearly 50 percent as it increasingly looks like Apple is getting its act together after a middling 2016.
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If you own a hedge fund and have $100,000 to spend, then you, too, could buy yourself 15 seconds of screen time in a middling Hollywood movie.
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A big reason for Britain's weak productivity growth is the breakdown of the "diffusion" of technological innovation from its most go-getting firms to its middling ones.
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Why should Mr Modi want to delay the business of state for a whole month, just to go campaigning in a middling state of only 66m people?
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Middling government-run firms produce average returns of 1.9%, but better ones manage 4.3%—which is still only half the level of companies in the private sector.
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And yet, when you do, "Kabali" emerges as a middling film, whose aim seems to be to milk the man and the phenomenon as much as possible.
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As a star of stage and screen, she earned notoriety and two Academy awards for her knack for finding something wise and sharp in even middling scripts.
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Working with his longtime friend and former colleague Mike Pence, Ryan staffed the middling ranks of the Trump administration with a bevy of very orthodox conservative Republicans.
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And yet there is an inescapable reputational give-and-take at work once a portfolio of transcendent playing achievements has been thickened with a middling managerial stint.
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While there aren't stats to back this up, a less-than-thrilling schedule, often featuring middling teams in primetime has not, optically, done the NFL many favors.
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For an organization that has been lost at sea ever since Steve Nash was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers, a better tomorrow beats a middling today.
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Last year, Pasola brought over 2,000 tourists to a part of the world so poor even a middling mad scientist could set up a secret volcano lair.
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" TOM PORCELLI, CHIEF US ECONOMIST, RBC CAPITAL MARKETS, NEW YORK: "It was a middling report at best, particularly as it relates to the conversation on the Fed.
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It starts off slow: a middle-aged man with a middling pneumonia; an older nursing home resident with a urinary tract infection that is making her delirious.
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But the net record is a fair-to-middling miracle, carried out by a man who for much of his short term was dying, in considerable discomfort.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers gives its infrastructure a D+. The education system, despite bright spots especially in the university sector, remains middling in international rankings.
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There's the annual freakout about middling players being "overpaid," and not-quite-accurate sermonizing about how championship teams are build through the draft, and not free agency.
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More importantly, after a middling start in Boston, he's willed the now-healthy Celtics to 19-13, good for third in the East as the calendar flips.
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Critics and fans have both panned the game as a cynical cash grab, an attempt to use the Metal Gear license to sell a middling survival game.
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As for the base-level G7, that sports a 6.2-inch display, 73-megapixel dual cameras and a 3,000 mAh battery, coupled with a middling Snapdragon 632.
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But rather than trying to become Germany or build an attack around a middling striker, Costa Rica decided to become very good at everything else, especially defending.
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It was the 8-2 and coming back with Per Mertesacker and Mikel Arteta, middling names who righted the ship when everyone said that they—we—sucked.
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The perennially middling Rams have moved from the middle of the country to bathe in the limelight (and suffer the scrutiny) of the Los Angeles media market.
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A physicist at the University of California San Diego found kettles on gas stovetops least inefficient, microwaves middling and electric kettles best at converting energy to heat.
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A physicist at the University of California, San Diego, found kettles on gas stovetops least inefficient, microwaves middling and electric kettles best at converting energy to heat.
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But Wisconsin is realizing it has abruptly returned to an enviable spot: a team opponents target for an upset that could redeem a middling or bad season.
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Washington (CNN)If the 2019 Super Bowl halftime show was a middling, agenda-less mess, this year's performance was its opposite: 15 straight minutes of political subversions.
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How else to explain the unexpected success of a genial, middling film like "Knives Out," which revived the slumbering cinematic tradition of the country house murder mystery?
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Still, if Ohtani ultimately proves to be little more than a middling pitcher and a run-of-the-mill hitter, will all these accommodations have been worthwhile?
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But just as there are carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap, mantises prey on hummingbirds and other small-to-middling birds more often than most people realize.
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Since then, the country has slowly shown through its own investments that it is a middling-yet-formidable cyber power with the tools to do real damage.
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With frozen drinks in plastic hurricane glasses and shrimp cocktail served with Club crackers, El Cortez suggests a kind of winking nostalgia for middling, no-frills cuisine.
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I've yet to see Joker (our own critic said it's a middling movie), and I truly affirm anyone's right to hate or love Joker all they want.
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Kapilow's dense musical illustrations repeatedly sent me, a middling amateur pianist, scurrying to my grandmother's baby grand so I could play and hear his examples out loud.
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In another instance, according to the person, the families said that Hatchell had warned that if U.N.C. turned in a middling performance against Louisville, "nooses" would await.
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On the other hand, Arizona State is a classic good R.P.I. team, having defeated Kansas and much of a middling — but R.P.I.-boosted — Pacific-12 Conference schedule.
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It's not because of the music itself; if you're wandering around a participating town, you're just as likely to hear a middling cover band as anything else.
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It, like so many other major Hollywood franchise films, feels like another installment in a middling TV show you keep up with when new episodes hit Netflix.
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Despite being nominated for a Golden Lion at the 2004 Venice Film Festival (the prestigious festival's highest honor), Vanity Fair opened on September 1, 2004 to middling reviews.
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For whatever reason, the decade-old mockumentary series about a middling Rust Belt paper company has become the sitcom equivalent of a warm blanket on a cold night.
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They've given up at least 5.7 yards per play in each of their last four games, three of those against very middling offenses in Northwestern, Maryland, and Illinois.
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She dubbed herself Bhad Bhabie, and then dropped her first mixtape, 15 — which garnered middling reviews but produced a Hot 100-charting single in "Gucci Flip Flops" feat.
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But in the end, Waco's middling ratings matter far less than what the role and Kitsch's embrace of social media have enabled: a gut renovation of his image.
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He has three home runs, two of them on opening day, and has driven in seven runs, but his on base percentage-plus-slugging is a middling .27.
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Or they can purchase live animals, such as chickens ($7 for a big clucker, $5 for a middling one), pigs ($124 and $103) or goats ($82 and $64).
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Don't be fooled by the middling ranking: Solo is a solid story, a neat little heist flick and an origin tale that earns its right to be told.
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Of course, how well Windows 10 will perform on something with middling specs remains to be seen, but the price will definitely put some Chromebooks on notice.[Lenovo]
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For someone who made her Bollywood debut in a middling comedy film (Chashme Baddoor, 2013), where she had a minuscule role, Taapsee Pannu has come a long way.
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But it's actually a sure-to-be-overlooked new — and pretty darn good — television adaptation that may help explain why King's best books often make for middling films.
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Trump's retro vision of what makes America great -- namely, low-tech, middling skilled, labor-intensive manufacturing jobs that are highly vulnerable to automation -- is a major political liability.
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"The semis had looked washed out on valuation a few weeks back and now they look kind of middling," said Lori Calvasina, chief U.S. equities strategist at RBC.
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As I entered medical school, the necktie that adorned my short, student white coat promised to make me appear more doctor-esque despite my middling and inchoate abilities.
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But the more likely scenario is each of those teams continue to be middling and reach the end of July in roughly the same spot they're at now.
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Companies are relying on financial engineering to achieve profit growth in the face of middling U.S. economic gains, S&P Investment Advisory Services Chairman Mike Thompson said Monday.
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The S&P 500 notched a record high of 2,130.82 on May 21 as middling economic data eased expectations for a rate hike from the U.S. Federal Reserve.
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Krrish Chhabria as Chotu has the glint of mischief in his eyes, but both he and Gada are let down by a middling film that tries too hard.
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The "Star Wars" actor tweeted to his nearly 3 million followers on Wednesday: For centuries, men have had their chance to rule government with middling-to-poor results.
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Despite being 3-4-1, the Bengals can climb to second place and be within half a game of first in the middling AFC North with a victory.
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A ninth-grade teacher required his students to memorize everything from Dickinsonian quickies to middling Frosties to the insomniac visions of Poe and the galloping ballads of Noyes.
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I hope we can bring warm hearts and cooler heads to the art that we do face, however great or middling, and allow ourselves to change that art.
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Its box office grosses have been middling — last week, it brought in $638,365, which is 61 percent of its potential, according to figures released by the Broadway League.
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The majority of product and business reviews are positive, with some negative ratings, and even fewer middling ratings in between, so don't rely on the average star rating.
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But given his polling in Illinois, even a middling finish in Florida could give Biden a delegate lead that would be all but impossible for Sanders to conquer.
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But there will be no more last-minute desperation scrolling that leaves us with middling, lukewarm dinners — after going a month without them, I know there's another way.
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Life is tough for skilled if unremarkable actresses like Eliza Dushku, who, despite early success, can be left foraging among fair-to-middling television series and forgettable movies.
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The Magicians, once a fantasy trilogy that pillaged franchises like Harry Potter to middling effect, is now the queer, emotionally devastating heir to Buffy the Vampire Slayer's throne.
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The decision comes a day before government data is expected to show the economy expanded by 0.5% in the September quarter, the third straight quarter of middling outcomes.
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He started out with them in the late 2000s, and at that point, Ciroc was just a middling vodka brand being shilled by no-name former NFL players.
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He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry.
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Where it stands, Ico: Castle in the Mist is a middling attempt to put a Tolkien or Song of Ice and Fire-esque fantasy spin on the original.
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Mike Krz...Coach K. Despite Boeheim's "1,000th win"* this season, the Cuse are having a middling year and needed a big win to get on the selection committee's radar.
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But running at a middling, not-too-hard, not-too-easy pace for an extended period of time isn't some timeless, eternal movement pattern on which our bodies thrive.
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Current school segregation patterns point to wealthy white students who initially receive middling scores ending up far better in life than the top 10 percent of poor black students.
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You could argue that the loss did more for St. Pierre than any number of wins over middling fighters would, but it's a rough way to treat the newbies.
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For months now, AMC has been steadily trying to push the idea that this is a new and improved Walking Dead, distinctly separate from the past few middling seasons.
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While Smith represented an improvement at the position, to me he was still a middling quarterback in a league where it takes a true star under center to win.
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Beto O'Rourke is attempting to reboot his presidential bid with a media tour and a busy campaign schedule — but it doesn't seem to be helping his middling poll numbers.
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Don't be fooled by the middling ranking: Solo is a solid story, a neat little heist flick and an enjoyable origin tale that earns its right to be told.
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In fact it most benefits middling households (since its recipients often support a higher-earning partner) and is part of a wider post-election tilt towards the better off.
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When the DTEK22 was first unveiled this week, there were questions around whether or not the device was simply a middling piece of hardware rebadged with a BlackBerry logo.
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What kind of middling impact would the original Dream Team have had on the world if Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird had not shown up in Barcelona?
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Jon Favreau's 2014 "Chef" was a middling film about a portly chef who finds his real goals in life after a disastrous social media showdown with a noted critic.
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Its entries have been plagued with behind-the-scenes troubles, middling reviews, average sales, and unfavorable and perhaps unfair comparisons to its cousin, the popular Grand Theft Auto series.
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Colin: A little Tim-Hecker-type-beat for my tastes, but I'm firmly of the opinion that much like bad pizza, even kinda middling ambient music still kicks ass.
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He loved the business part of the business, Mr. Azenberg said, made no bones about his middling aesthetic standards and went with his gut where his money was concerned.
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All seven GOP members of the state's plural executive are running for re-election, challenged by a slate of Democrats whose name recognition ranges from middling to virtually nonexistent.
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They upgraded their middling package from last December's Chapman deal to an impressive package in this Chapman deal — and they got back the pitcher they dealt for Castro, too.
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By contrast, Germany is skeptical about public-sector interventions; instead, its policy aims to support a broad group of middling-size enterprises rather than pick a handful of winners.
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Performance is one of the critical differentiators between middling and premium phones, so yes, it matters a ton, and no, the Note 7 doesn't distinguish itself with its speed.
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If unwise remarks at a dinner can cast a pall over a longstanding relationship, then a great ending can redeem and even force reconsideration of an otherwise middling film.
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The film received a middling critical reception, with movie critic Peter Howell of the Toronto Star remarking that it stretched the truth " beyond any semblance of reality or fairness."
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As a fan, it's reassuring to see such a balanced team, not one that has just two superstars and a middling supporting cast like in so many years past.
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Her youthful vitality and fierce personality would have helped the author dispense with a multitude of middling characters and political invective and given us a heroine worth cheering for.
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Within hours on Tuesday, Ms. Griffin, who self-deprecatingly acknowledged her middling celebrity in a reality show "My Life on the D-List," posted a video apology to Twitter.
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Perhaps the show's greatest feat it that it achieved this kind of viewership amid a barrage of middling reviews and a mode of storytelling that isn't exactly newbie-friendly.
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It is questionable whether a middling measure like the Quincy Institute will succeed in reviving faith in a rewired American foreign policy shorn of its penchant for endless war.
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In February, while North Carolina was busy beating Notre Dame, Virginia and Louisville (and losing at Duke), Gonzaga was drubbing middling opponents like Santa Clara, Pacific and San Diego.
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No one reason, although her open embrace of "Medicare for All" coupled with back-to-back middling showings in the two most recent debates likely played a major role.
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After a rocky 2015, which, amid legal issues, still included the release of five full-length Migos projects with middling effect, 2016 was about slowing down and spreading out.
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But going up against a top-flight offense like Pittsburgh is a tough test for Miami's middling defense, even if Tannehill's knee heals enough to allow him to return.
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Perhaps she is troubled by the fact that Pruitt's term in office will likely be marked by a landmark contribution to the scientific debate while her legacy was middling.
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Trigger even more critiques of the Falcons' middling performances of late, and wonder how so many Super Bowl events seem so out of reach for so many football fans.
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For all his offensive flaws, Doughty (58.5 percent raw Fenwick) was a possession beast; Weber (51.5 percent) is middling and a negative possession player in relation to his team.
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They expressed their horror; they reached into their desks for emergency whiskey; we all drank to another wild and crazy day on the set of our middling web series.
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The confrontation was a clear boiling-over of tensions for a team frustrated by middling results during a season in which it expected to compete for a division title.
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Similarly, Halloween, which drew middling-to-positive reviews from critics, has also drawn fans of the 40-year-old franchise to bring in huge numbers at the box office.
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The NHS does a middling job of turning compassion into care—certainly better than America, but worse than several continental countries that rely on compulsory insurance backstopped by the government.
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By avowing her destiny as a great artist early and often, she was rejecting comfort and middling conformity to claim a vocation that, the record proves, involved scrupulous, uncompromising experimentation.
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For comparison among the three big economies which joined the euro zone, the French were somewhat middling, with two thirds of them seeing mainly benefits from giving up the franc.
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Faster-than-expected growth, particularly in market-based inflation measures, as well as stronger job reports than the middling gains expected through the year, might force the hand of policymakers.
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Subhash Kapoor's "Jolly LLB" from 2013 was a middling film saved by the comic timing of leading man Arshad Warsi and Saurabh Shukla, who played the amiable but eccentric judge.
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Considering that most smartwatch makers haven't been great with middling features, all while Apple was able to turn the Apple Watch a fitness watch, it's a wise move by Fitbit.
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Instead, he argues, Mr Schulz should have offered broader national modernisation appealing not just to lower-income voters but to middling ones too, as Brandt and Gerhard Schröder once did.
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At the same time, a stubbornly middling economic recovery continues to set old workers against younger ones, and places a target on the back of every experienced, higher-salaried employee.
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She noted that as she's aged her skin has gotten drier and she's also recently suffered from a bout with Rosacea which she's used lasers to treat with middling results.
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Premier League clubs will be able to outbid European rivals: more players from the best German, French and Italian teams will be tempted by lucrative moves to middling English clubs.
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The Clippers just lost the best player their franchise has ever known, but maxing Paul out on a five-year contract was always a one-way trip to middling depression.
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In fact, in his annual letter to shareholders, CEO Jamie Dimon was critical of his own company and the industry at large for its middling efforts to hire black professionals.
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Source: Variety (2019)Netflix said that "Triple Frontier" was viewed by 52 million households in its first month of release, despite middling reviews (it has a 71% on Rotten Tomatoes).
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In last year's report card, these experts gave multilateral efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation a middling B-. This year they awarded a failing D+. Such pessimism is easy to understand.
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Also, because there are more female writers now, you are likely to encounter contemporary work that is middling but praised as great (perhaps as some kind of political course correction).
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Just how anomalous are high economic approval ratings -- and positive jobs numbers like 4.1% economic growth in the 2nd quarter of 2018 -- with middling overall job approval numbers, historically speaking?
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Though Browne has won two fights since then, both of these wins have occurred against middling competition in Brendan Schaub and Matt Mitrione—both of whom have left the UFC.
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The Sixers, who got off to a middling 8-5 start, decided to swing big and gamble on Butler, 29, even though he can become a free agent July 1.
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It was a middling establishment by the standards of a time when the Chabanais's ornate Moorish Room competed with the One-Two-Two's Ducal Room, for 193 francs a pass.
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This is as it should be: Voters should choose a candidate who excites them, who promises a brighter future—not one engineered to placate a lost gang of middling naysayers.
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It was a middling club at the time, but Casey dismissed supporting Arsenal, the north London team preferred by most of his friends, as akin to rooting for the Yankees.
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Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, was a middling force in the campaign, he hosted fund-raisers and offered endorsements to various Democrats in the closing weeks of this year's race.
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Those alternate realities are playing out in real time — reflected in Biden's solid standing atop national polls versus his middling performance in Iowa and New Hampshire surveys on the other.
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In 2005, they were avid fishermen and middling businessmen in the outdoors space (Ryan manufactured and sold high-end fishing rods; Roy customized aluminum boats for fishing the Gulf Coast).
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Start with your grandest ideas, and any eventual compromise is likely to end up in the middle; start with middling ideas, and your compromise will end up as right-lite.
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The likely loss of seats -- as history tells it -- could well be compounded by President Donald Trump's middling approval rating, which is hovering in the upper 30s and low 40s.
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The object of Ingrid's latest sick infatuation is middling social-media star Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen), a "photographer" who lives with her winsome, top-knotted artist husband in Venice, California.
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The Mets have struggled to compete against the more popular New York Yankees, and it shows in the team's financial fortunes as well as their middling success on the field.
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But because it was so ahead of its time, Psychonauts found both critical and commercial success to be middling compared to creator Tim Schafer's other knockouts like Secret of Monkey Island.
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There was no home team to which you could pledge your allegiance, and no point in arbitrarily wrapping yourself in the colors of a middling team like Sheffield Wednesday or Middlesbrough.
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But the production is the only thing that saves Lost in London from being just another middling slog about a rich man confused by the state of his previously enchanted life.
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Then the giant-monster-smash fest Rampage opened in April, and earned a middling $101 domestically; thanks to a strong showing in China, however, the movie clawed back $428 million worldwide.
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This is especially true for the handful of states that do not cover the voter's personal cost to get an I.D. But these are middling concerns that can easily be fixed.
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Meanwhile, Iginla's reputation as one of the most respected veterans in the league overrides his middling performance this year, and Sakic is able to flip him for a first-round pick.
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There is an interesting wrinkle to this story, however, for the man who became famous for kneeling in silent prayer after scoring touchdowns back when he was a middling football player.
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Comb in hand or not, Spieth already has spread himself thin in 2016—a stretch in which his results are middling compared to his breakout spring and summer of last year.
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While best-selling authors — the Grishams and Rowlings — may well command even larger advances in possible bidding wars, new writers and ones with middling sales records might wind up earning less.
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They're not particularly loud and the sound is middling, but at least the speakers project sound up at you; the MacBook Air's speakers are more muffled since they're underneath the keyboard.
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However, while Durant joins a powerful team that won the 2015 NBA championship and were beaten finalists this year, Wade moves to an outfit coming off a middling 42-40 season.
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One of the simplest avenues of productivity is growth is just individual bringing better ideas from top of the class firms to the middling order or the longer tail of firms.
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None of the albums netted her glowing profiles in Rolling Stone or The Fader, and the first review she ever got from Pitchfork, for 2013's Wheel, was a middling one.
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"Mad About the Boy" (2013), the most recent novel in Helen Fielding's franchise, sold close to 50,000 copies in a single day in Britain despite middling reviews and an unpopular plotline.
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Titles like Kameo and Perfect Dark Zero had both received middling reviews, and I wasn't ready to take like a $730 punt on SEGA's new IP Condemned: Criminal Origins just yet.
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A middling team in La Liga for several seasons, Sociedad once again proved to be a nemesis for Barcelona, which left Anoeta Stadium without a victory for a sixth consecutive time.
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Though European gasoline margins have been middling and especially poor among southern European refiners, several factors may mesh in coming months to support Nigerian differentials, which stand near multi-year highs.
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The selling of Harlem as a literary-artistic wonderland is distracting in what's basically a straightforward, middling-quality comic-book adaptation about a reluctant hero taking on gangsters and crooked politicians.
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The aqueduct paved the way for the city's expansion from a middling city of just over 22017,22040 people in 23 to a still-mushrooming metropolis of 242 million today, historians say.
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For years mid-sized miners with limited access to capital had turned to these companies to fund construction of typically middling assets, often deemed not lucrative enough to woo top miners.
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Dallas is a middling 24-2919-22.29 since the All-Star break and has recently been without John Klingberg, Patrick Sharp, Patrick Eaves and Jordie Benn because of injuries and illness.
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It's created so much opportunity, but there's this morass of indie rock that feels very tepid and middling and average, and no one is raising their head above the parapet. Yeah.
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With Benfica similarly formidable on their day, nothing can be taken for granted in Group B. It's the "group of death" for middling sides that nobody else wants to play, basically.
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The summer, in particular, saw a sharp 15% downturn, sinking to its lowest level in more than a decade as people exhibited less willingness to trek to theaters for middling titles.
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The episodes are all written by Peter Morgan, whose fascination with the royals has led to projects both terrific — the 2006 film The Queen — and middling — the telefilm The Special Relationship.
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As a physician, I need to be able to offer more wholesome and therapeutic options to my patients than what amount to synthetic sugary shakes with a middling amount of protein.
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He reached 200 strikeouts for the seventh time, and despite middling postseason numbers over all (6-7, 4.40 E.R.A.), the Dodgers have now won eight of his last nine playoff appearances.
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After four middling seasons with Golden State and Milwaukee, he had just spent a depressing year on the bench with the Los Angeles Clippers, averaging less than four minutes a game.
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"I'm middling alarmed," said Rick Lodwick, as he tossed a jumbo pack of sanitizing wipes into the back of his car in the parking of a big box store in Vacaville.
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Jones had kept faith with Garrett during several middling seasons, but the owner's patience finally ran out as Dallas finished the season 8-8 and missed the playoffs by one game.
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A Finnish study in 2017 suggested that would boost the earnings of artists of middling popularity—though Spotify's former director of economics thinks it neglected to account for higher administrative costs.
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There are a lot of uninteresting, middling hotels in Danang City, so instead go for a "homestay," the term used for private apartments and homes that are put up for rent.
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The Booker team has seen middling fundraising numbers, raising $4.5 million in the second quarter -- a dip from the $5 million he raised during the first three months of the year.
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The Booker team has seen middling fundraising numbers, raising $353 million in the second quarter -- a dip from the $5 million he raised during the first three months of the year.
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It is simultaneously an insult and an aspiration, the scourge of small business owners and the future of marketing, and a moniker for kids with middling social followings and megacelebrities alike.
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Yep. And, you know, if the company grew to a middling size, I mean, there were problems with it, but then if it got acquired, those problems were usually smoothed out.
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The first certified box office dud of the Disney Star Wars era, with relatively middling critical reviews to boot, Solo's muted reception signaled the first real signs of Star Wars fatigue.
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Last month, TV Land unveiled "Teachers," a middling sitcom about a group of inept educators created by and featuring the Katydids, a six-woman comedy ensemble out of Los Angeles via Chicago.
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Or take barcodes, which were first deployed with middling success to track train cars, and only took on the eponymous universality of "UPC codes" when cash registers became more than mechanical contraptions.
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Cook has previously called out the President on his immigration ban and his decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, but his statements would most charitably be described as middling.
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The apparent lack of political messaging behind this programming makes us wonder if it'll just be middling, cable news slice-of-life stories, but blown out with a Netflix-sized production budget.
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A plan that showers benefits on the top 1% of earners and a middling benefit to the middle class would violate the spirit of Trump's campaigns and reap a whirlwind of protest.
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That same silence from many in the national media followed the first black body found in Buck's home, and that middling coverage played its part in the lack of accountability that followed.
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Since 2006 it has steadily improved its scores across each subject by about a year of schooling, overtaking the United States as it went from a middling to an above-average performer.
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After a middling performance at the early debates and very little momentum in the polls, Ryan announced that he was abandoning his campaign and would instead pursue another term in the House.
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A break-up, whether to separate the audit arms from the consulting businesses or to turn the Big Four into a Middling Eight, seems to offer a simple solution to these problems.
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The Cincinnati Bengals weren't good enough to pull off a must-win game against a middling Baltimore Ravens today, and quite frankly, Marvin Lewis isn't good enough to coach the Bengals anymore.
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While the middling Everybody Loves Raymond, about a guy and his family, has two Outstanding Emmy statues, series like The Mindy Project, Jane The Virgin, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend never received nominations.
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Today we expect a lot more from our digital assistants: not just rote answers, but intelligent responses—though at the moment the actual efficacy of bots seems to be middling at best.
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Though Hader mostly started in the minors, the Brewers decided not to use him to bolster a middling rotation that includes Chase Anderson, Zach Davies, Jhoulys Chacin, Brent Suter and Junior Guerra.
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Then again, the best option for Holm might be the simplest one—not a high profile rematch, not a catchweight super fight, but a scrap with another middling bantamweight in Cat Zingano.
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It is, in fact, the opposite, however improbable that sounds after middling entries like 2014's Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, and the disastrous original launch of Final Fantasy XIV in 2010.
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Middling middleweight Sam Alvey (13-8) has never really been admired for his busy schedule, but that's likely to change, as he recently signed on for his fourth fight in five months.
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When it launched half a decade ago, the category was broadly maligned for its limited feature set, middling hardware specs and operation that required an always-on internet connection to work properly.
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On the table next to them sit Arsène Wenger and Dick Law, trying to convince a pair of bemused Olympique Lyonnais officials to sell them their best player for a middling fee.
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And those middling states tend to be more nakedly authoritarian: they may not have enough oil to buy the quiescence of their people, but plenty to pay for the machinery of repression.
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I think Sony has succeeded in the former case, as my qualms about things like the big bezels and middling resolution were offset by great viewing angles and built-in stereo speakers.
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What has gotten a bit more traction, though, is an acceleration in wage growth, from a middling 2.5 percent annualized gain in August to a more robust 2.9 percent move in September.
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In the period between Walt Disney's death in 1966 and the ostensible renaissance signaled by "The Little Mermaid" (1989), the Walt Disney film studio released dozens of fair-to-middling children's entertainments.
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If Migos members can't bear to open up to us on their middling solo efforts, Bad Bunny and his Latin trap peers will have to do the heavy emotional lifting for them.
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This band — also including Rhonda Smith on bass and Jonathan Joseph on drums — was better than middling, and more exciting than on "Loud Hailer," though still basically a background for Mr. Beck.
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There's another category of team we haven't even touched on: confused, middling clubs like the Yankees and the White Sox who don't know if they're a buyer, a seller, or an eggplant.
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Only one work on the two programs is newish — "Branches," a middling nature study created in 2017 — so the thrust turns out to be retrospective, a sampling of four decades of repertory.
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And now, it seems, potential challengers in both parties are mulling whether the governor's sudden swoon, as indicated in two recent polls showing middling approval ratings, could mean an opening for them.
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Consider that Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson, until recently the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, ranks as a man of only middling wealth, with disclosed assets in the $10 million range.
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Like the silent majority of other middling or poor urban dwellers in expensive cities, we are residents of tiny homes not by design, but because it is all our money can rent.
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Kumin's decision to merge his fund into Schonfeld illustrates the pressure on managers as equity markets have boomed for years and investors' patience with high costs and middling returns has worn thin.
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The other major averages have more middling performances — the S&P 73 has a modest two-day win streak and the Nasdaq has lost ground in three of the past four sessions.
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Biden is scrambling to notch top finishes in the Nevada caucuses and South Carolina primary after middling performances in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states to hold presidential nominating contests.
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"Rent," the not-quite-live production, aired on Sunday: It was "three hours of chaotic visuals and middling audio most of us were never meant to see and hear," a critic said.
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Given all the good will toward the band, and Rami Malek, who plays Freddie Mercury, that might have been enough to make it a populist cause célèbre, despite middling reviews from critics.
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These are unsettling times in America and we need football more than ever to get us back to good old-fashioned theft, and what better place to start than middling ACC football?
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It's the first week of October, and the time has come to welcome all the best fall traditions: pumpkin spice lattes, middling-to-good horror films, and Halloween festivities taking over social media.
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A great goal, to be sure, but we don't understand how a middling six-passenger SUV without an electrified powertrain option or the company's flagship driver assistance technology gets them closer to that.
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She doesn't appreciate what her mother, who is raising Maya and her brother Shuji by herself while their father tours the country as part of a middling cover band, is doing for her.
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The widely discussed idea of free college, in their data, has middling support, but a paid family leave program — which seems to have fallen off the radar in recent months — is overwhelmingly popular.
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But when a team is essentially out of the race by July, fans don't tend to distinguish between middling clubs "playing out the string" and sad, lovable losers destined to finish dead last.
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But Iowa as a whole is essentially white, working-class and right-of-center — though, true to its middling status, ranks 24th among America's 50 states when it comes to self-identified conservatives.
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Sure enough, Mr Spicer, who has had a middling week—to emphasise Mr Assad's heinousness, he said that even Hitler didn't "sink to using chemical weapons", a bizarre claim—later issued a retraction.
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Of course, if people aren't sharing about themselves, it could mean they're just sharing non-personalized garbage content, like Upworthy stories or ice bucket challenge videos, or the latest middling review from Gizmodo.
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Newsflash: A $550 Android phone with middling guts, whose only standout features are the keyboard and BlackBerry's much-hyped "security" stack, probably isn't going to bring legions of fans back to the brand.
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Last week Strategy Analytics noted that the Chinese company had taken charge of global shipments for the first time ever, following Fitbit's middling financial report, and that assessment is reflected in these numbers.
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The resulting middling sales, combined with food safety scandals, rapid turnover of CEOs, and scuffles with the government, prevented the US retail giant from capitalizing on what many thought was a golden opportunity.
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The X5 is the latest redesigned BMW to get the full suite of tech goodies, elevating the big Bimmer from a middling performer to one of the more exciting options in the class.
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As airlines have ratcheted up baggage fees—and arguably done only a middling job at keeping track of checked-in luggage—finding a high-performance carry-on has become essential for frequent flyers.
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His record on the field was middling, but Berg was distinguished by his pursuits off it — namely, his time as a US spy during World War II.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
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Viewers, however, are unlikely to be more than marginally amused by its fair-to-middling acting, enervated plot and forcibly diverse group of drifting souls gathered on the fictional Greek island of Khronos.
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Where many streamlined laptops—the MacBook, for example—opt to use Intel's middling but power-friendly Core M processors, the Notebook 9 I tested came with a latest generation Intel Core i5 processor.
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By Wednesday, even the middling controversies that have dogged his tenure began to return: "De Blasio delays visit to Chelsea bombing site to work out," a headline in The New York Post read.
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A great quarterback can elevate an average team to Super Bowl champions, while a middling performance from an average quarterback can doom their teammates, regardless of how strong their supporting cast may be.
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Age and wear had gotten the better of Sabathia (8-11) over the summer, turning a solid start to the year into another season of middling results and an inflated earned run average.
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In a sea of failing relationships, middling careers, and prescription drugs, the old friends set to recalibrate and restore some light into their lives and began writing music in one of their homes.
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In a week that began with Manager Mickey Callaway's decision-making drawing criticism once more, Frazier found a way to give his middling team a matinee win on a brilliant day in Queens.
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Politicians point to Trump's stratospheric approval among Republicans and the middling approval for impeachment among the broader populations, without acknowledging that they aren't simply laboring under those realities but helping to create them.
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Polls showed the tax breaks enjoyed only middling popularity as many Americans came to see them as a gift to the richest Americans that did little to address the problem of wage stagnation.
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But starting at $1,500 and considering its middling specs and feature set, it's not a device for the smartphone buyer used to top-of-the-line specs and every feature under the sun.
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Steyer had two middling performances in Iowa and New Hampshire, failing to break 5 percent support in either, well below the level of support required to win a delegate to the national convention.
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His father worked for middling wages in a lumberyard, but after discovering that his teenage son could play melodies back from memory, he saved up to buy the family a piano, for $60.
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Rangy in a way that can be kittenish, then knockabout, then adolescent-seeming, she's a fair-to-middling actress vocally, but a totally electrifying one when speaking in the language of the body.
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As it turns out, it will be gold, not silver, that turns their heads in "The Vanishing," a middling good-guys-gone-bad thriller (and no relation to George Sluizer's ingenious 1991 shocker).
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But after James left to return home to Cleveland in 2014—much like what Wade has done by moving to his native Chicago—Miami has been a middling team the past two seasons.
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After all, Holy Cross was a Division 1-AA school in Worcester, Massachusetts known more for its top-notch academics than its middling football program, which had gone 4-19893-1 in 1985.
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It's a bit early to say, precisely, how the real estate market in Long Island City—which some brokers and owners had described as middling before the "HQ2" deal went public—will respond.
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This is a game that many expected to be GTA in the swinging 40s, but as the fairly middling reviews stated at the time, what ultimately came out was a far narrower experience.
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Yes, Mike Goldberg was a middling play-by-play man with a questionable understanding of his sport, a halting and sometimes combative relationship with the English language, and a strange fetish for the "Rocky-like toughness" of white fighters from New Jersey, but he was our middling play-by-play man with a questionable understanding of his sport, a halting and sometimes combative relationship with the English language, and a strange fetish for the "Rocky-like toughness" of white fighters from New Jersey.
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Strong tee-to-green play is essential regardless of course conditions or layout, and when Mr McIlroy manages to steady his putter from middling distances, few if any golfers can keep up with him.
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Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen will likely strike a dovish tone on interest rates against a backdrop of middling economic growth and slowly rising inflation, Ameriprise Financial Chief Market Strategist David Joy said Tuesday.
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Fitbit is, once again, not having a good day after spending the year in mostly middling status as it looks to prove there's a market for fitness trackers as well as its own smartwatch.
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I tried everything from classical to hip-hop albums using the system and I was impressed with the fidelity and clarity of the playback on every genre, even with my middling quality record player.
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Nice Guys' failings —" its shaggy-dog sloppiness and middling ambition —" wouldn't matter so much if this wasn't all familiar territory, and if Black himself hadn't covered this ground in a smarter, sharper way already.
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Days after DeMarcus Cousins ruptured his Achilles tendon on national television, the Clippers shed a contract that had the potential to cripple their future and was on track to virtually guarantee middling annual results.
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But the average portfolio manager at a firm running more than $7003 billion with middling-performance - up about 1 percent year-to-date - is expected to make an average of $2.23 million this year.
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But its two latest series, the Seth Rogen-produced sci-fi comedy "Future Man" and teen serial "Marvel's Runaways," are both middling, narrowly appealing genre fare, more notable for their auspices than the execution.
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If the Yankees cannot convince General Manager Brian Cashman that they are anything more than a middling team, he could begin the hunt for prospects by dangling his best hitter, Carlos Beltran, and Chapman.
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A middling Class AA prospect with San Diego in 2010, Kluber was traded to the Indians in a three-way deal that summer for a veteran pitcher, Jake Westbrook, who went to St. Louis.
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"Like the silent majority of other middling or poor urban dwellers in expensive cities, we are residents of tiny homes not by design, but because it is all our money can rent," she wrote.
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Ortiz Scores Career-Best Win Over Makovsky The first fight of the night saw middling flyweight Dustin Ortiz pick up the best win of his career over long-time top-10 staple Zach Makovsky.
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Many firms that have grabbed headlines in the race to the bottom remain in the middling ranks of Morningstar's ranking of fund families with the highest number and largest low- and no-fee funds.
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For some unknown reason—perhaps due to a desperate need for a distraction from the increasingly disheartening Kavanaugh saga—this seemingly middling bit of sports PR sparked a fire inside the collective internet mind.
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Even Katy Perry, whose break off, too, is of the norm, returned with newest single, "Chained To The Rhythm," to middling results since "Dark Horse" back in 2013, and that was a bonus track.
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Phoenix made a brief appearance at the end of X2 and had a middling role in 2006's X-Men: The Last Stand, but now, she's finally getting an entire movie of her own.
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Following middling performances at the June and July Democratic debates and a failure to qualify for the September debate, Gillibrand officially called it quits in an interview with the New York Times on Wednesday.
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In the portions of the internet most consumed by fandom—stan Twitter, niche subreddits, meme YouTube—the release that people are chasing is often an alternate, potentially fictional director's cut of a middling movie.
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The movie earned largely middling to poor reviews from critics, but because of how Rotten Tomatoes calculates ratings, that was enough to earn it a 60 percent "fresh" rating on the review aggregation site.
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Look, I'm impressed with what app developers and third-party partners have created for Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat using the middling front-facing cameras of most phones — but it's about to get way more interesting.
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But the results indicated there were weaknesses: When asked to rate whether the role of the team was clearly understood and whether their work had impact, members of the team gave middling to poor scores.
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NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Gokulnath Shetty, a middle-aged bank manager of middling rank, spent his days in the foreign exchange department on the mezzanine floor of Punjab National Bank's Brady House branch in Mumbai.
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The bits of scattered bone and a remarkably well-preserved braincase is offering an unprecedented glimpse into what these middling predators looked like in the immediate period before they evolved into their much larger form.
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This could partly be because the average premium paid has been below that of prior cycles, too – suggesting perhaps that middling deal volumes and upbeat investor reception are partly a matter of more disciplined acquirers.
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He was 2122 and in his prime, yet the Lakers were a middling team composed of Bryant and a rotating crew of NBA session musicians, an unremarkable rhythm section of Kwames and Smushes and Mihms.
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Masahiro Tanaka has looked strong on five days' rest, but middling on four, and Nathan Eovaldi appears to be turning a corner with his recent performances, including six one-hit innings on Wednesday at Arizona.
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Middling economic data, a skittish consumer and the likelihood the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by year-end are all conspiring to drag stocks lower in the final months of 2016, strategists said Thursday.
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He used to turn up on British cards to beat the breaks off of middling fighters like Chris Leben and Yoshihiro Akiyama, but he would inevitably falter when he faced one of the big names.
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Every time I see a fair-to-middling production of a brilliant play by the irreplaceable Sam Shepard , who died in 2017, at the age of seventy-three, I leave the theatre with conflicted feelings.
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Early reviews of the movie (which comes out this Friday) suggest it's a fairly middling effort, but Gundacker has homed in on the essence of its marketing appeal: big-name actors playing ridiculously named characters.
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In an attempt to shake things up after another losing season, Hanwha's front office hired the revered manager Sung-Keun Kim, who turned around another historically middling team into a dynasty in the late-aughts.
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Manipulated by a cynical Brit manager called Rez (Rafi Gavron), who's probably meant to evoke Simon Cowell, she settles into a middling groove at the point when you want to see a Gaga-like supernova.
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Why it matters: Docker was a high-flying unicorn not too long ago, even viewed as a promising IPO candidate, but has since had its wings clipped and stall moved over with the middling mares.
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And Trump's rising domestic demands, as he gears up for reelection with middling approval ratings under the cloud of multiple investigations, mean his capacity to make a breakthrough where his predecessors failed could steadily erode.
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Fans and critics alike were shocked when the bona fide Grammys darling lost the award — to middling EDM duo Daft Punk, no less — after creating the most mature, insightful, and timeless music of her career.
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Instead of building another goddamn app, which the company has done countless times already to middling success, this time Google is aiming to adopt a new standard for messaging that will move users away from SMS.
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"The Promise" doesn't seek to break ground: it was created in order to shine light on an oft-ignored historical event, and even with mediocre reviews and middling box-office figures it is achieving that aim.
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Something that helps on a site like Amazon is to read through the middling reviews, rather than the ultra-positive or ultra-negative ones—these will usually give you a good balance of pros and cons.
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The 1.5-inch display is a middling 320 x 290, and it's sliced along the bottom to make room for the light sensor that helps it adjust based on the levels of light in the room.
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Much like Anderson Silva made several, non-title forays up to light heavyweight, taking on middling fighters like Forrest Griffin and Stefan Bonnar, Mighty Mouse could head up to bantamweight to take on a top contender.
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IN PROFESSIONAL wrestling, a fake form of combat mistaken for the real thing by some fans, a "carpenter" is a skilled wrestler of middling fame, whose job is to make rising stars look strong and intimidating.
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Struggling for consistency, Markos has traded wins over middling strawweights Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger and Aisling Daley with losses to tougher competition in Jessica Penne, Karolina Kowalkiewicz—both of whom are former title challengers—and Cortney Casey.
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That includes the standard array of multimedia offerings played through middling speakers, along with smart home features — though it will be interesting to see how Google continues to refine the latter on its own Nest Hubs.
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With the explosion of furry superstars in the past decade, many pet owners with fair to middling social followings (but very cute and special pets!) are wondering how they, too, can get in on the action.
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To make matters worse, the president-elect is taking over from an administration whose Syria policy was not merely a resounding failure, but was so middling and contradictory that the most important takeaway isn't self-evident.
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Those people will not only need to eat, they will want to eat better than people do now (see chart), because by then most are likely to have middling incomes, and many will be well off.
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The Leicester City Foxes were nearly dropped from the Premier League a year ago, but with a middling payroll and few stars the team could now embarrass celebrity rivals including Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United.
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He remains extremely popular within his own party -- despite his middling approval numbers in the general electorate; in CNN's May national poll, 10.83% of Republicans approved of the job Trump was doing while just 9% disapproved.
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On that billboard, Prokhorov, the new Russian owner of a middling franchise still in New Jersey, and Jay-Z, the face of this new ownership group, towered over the basketball ennui that inhabited Madison Square Garden.
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A big, flashy launch doesn't amount to much without the products to back it up, and at the end of the day, LeEco didn't have much to deliver aside from promises and a few middling handsets.
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As with too many other game studios which mismanage and overwork their employees just to give us incremental, middling experiences year after year, it's time we started asking what one has to do with the other.
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If you're confused about what's happening — particularly given the dearth of IPOs we've seen, along with the middling performance of the tech stocks that have gone out in the last couple of years — join the club.
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This grid has a lot of constraints on it, which may be the reason for the fair-to-middling fill, although I liked the revealer and the long Downs, GRATUITOUS and the debut of ANGIE'S LIST.
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The 2013 title came after more than a decade of middling sales for the series; the second launched a year after #GamerGate, as it came to be called, exposed sexual harassment within the video game industry.
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Where Vance wrote affectingly of showing up at Ohio State and Yale Law with the limited preparation provided by his middling schools in Middletown, Ohio, Westover describes showing up in college with no schooling at all.
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Mr. Ghosn, then 45 and a vice president at Renault, had helped oversee a turnaround at the middling French automaker, which had agreed to spend $5.4 billion to buy a 36.8 percent stake in Nissan Motors.
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In the film, Tom Cruise's character is admitted to Princeton despite an entirely middling academic record when he impresses his interviewer by turning his parents' nicely appointed suburban colonial into a brothel while they are away.
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Everything about the sushi at middling pan-Asian restaurants and in cooler cases — the underseasoned rice, the thick slabs of fish, the jagged piece of artificial turf on the tray — is an affront to such connoisseurship.
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No amount of marketing hocus-pocus could convince people that "The Sun Is Also a Star," a middling romantic comedy starring Yara Shahidi ("grown-ish"), was worth the hassle and expense of trekking to a theater.
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The reason is obvious: somehow, Belgium, a country of just 11 million people, one with a generally unremarkable soccer pedigree and a fair-to-middling national league, has stumbled upon an astonishing production line of talent.
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From all this, and from his own experience as a California beach rat, middling pro surfer, and surfing writer, he composed the idiosyncratic yet authoritative "Encyclopedia of Surfing," which was published, to wide acclaim, in 2003.
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We had a middling week of gambling in Week 13 of the NFL season, going 8-8 against the spread to sustain through a tough week and keep us in the black so far this season.
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The Sixers haven't established the required consistency to earn the label of East favorites, going 11-763 since the All-Star break with middling placement in both offensive (18th) and defensive (12th) efficiency in that span.
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Why Singapore has the smartest kids in the world US, UK middling The United States ranked 25th in the league table, performing in line with the OECD average for science and reading -- but below average for math.
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Though critics gave Blade middling reviews, fans loved the film and, in many ways, its box office success paved the way for the multiple expansive cinematic superhero universes we're all contending with today, for better or worse.
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Ms. Reddy, a middling star in central India, announced on Saturday that she was staging a protest against sexual harassment in the Indian film industry, one of the bolder #MeToo-type moments that the country has seen.
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In the interim, Universal tried to restart the franchise with Jeremy Renner as Bourne stand-in Aaron Cross, with middling results; Renner is apparently set to star as Cross in this one, too, so all's apparently well.
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It's a late 2013 model with a 13-inch display and middling innards, and it's been the workhorse I have relied on for everything from live-blogging Apple events to reporting from remote corners of the country.
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"We're obviously interested in carrying CBS broadcast networks but feel like the other three middling cable networks are just a tax," said Warren Schlichting, Dish executive vice president of marketing, programming and media sales, in an interview.
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The STOXX 600 Basic Resource index rose 3.1 percent, making it the biggest sectoral gainer, after copper climbed on Monday from near its lowest in more than a month after middling U.S. wholesale inventories bruised the dollar.
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The STOXX 600 Basic Resource index rose 2.9 percent, making it the biggest sectoral gainer, after copper climbed on Monday from near its lowest in more than a month after middling U.S. wholesale inventories bruised the dollar.
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Only 32-years-old, Lauzon fight for the 40th time in his professional MMA career on Saturday—you would be forgiven for thinking his role as a middling gatekeeper might see his all-action fighting eventually wane.
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The film has a 5.5/10 rating on IMDB from three critic reviews, each of which are no longer online, probably deleted out of cowardice for what I can only assume were incorrect takes and middling reviews.
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Such is the case with Woody Allen, a festival veteran who was back on Wednesday night, this time with "Café Society," a middling entertainment that features enough famous names to make it a perfect opening-night diversion.
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But if reports of its sales (around 130 million euros, or about $135 million, in 2015) are correct, it's more in the lower-middling range, and very reliant on the marketability and profile of its young designer.
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Yet economists and wealth experts say the economic distance between 103-percenters in rich states and the 1-percenters in middling or even affluent states has widened drastically, creating a new national landscape of the 1 percent.
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We had a middling week of gambling in Week 11 of the NFL season, going 6-8 against the spread to sustain through a tough week and keep us well in the black so far this season.
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Fewer things of higher quality, yes, but also things that are simply more useful, more appropriate, more adored, with less of the middling stuff that takes up space in our closets, our living rooms and our psyches.
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A democracy that cared for its citizens might be able to fill the gap between a weak minimum wage and middling incomes generally and the high cost of living, but that's not the country we live in.
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His own popularity was always middling; people were always ambivalent about him because of his lack of natural charm and constituency; he'd just tear down the other guy, so he'd be left standing as the fallback alternative.
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Instead, it had an ebullient regional booster, Fred Terman, an engineer and university administrator who used the bounty of military money to turn Stanford from a middling school with a good football team into an engineering powerhouse.
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Despite receiving decidedly mixed reviews and a middling box office take (at least so far), Adam McKay's Dick Cheney biopic received eight total nominations, tied for the second most of any film in the 2019 Oscars slate.
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Which, in turn, makes it a good weekend for embarrassing upsets, particularly as the margin between the good and middling college football teams shrinks each year because of the increasing proliferation of very good high school athletes.
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Sending Amis — the author of books called "Money" and "Success" — to Las Vegas to play poker may have seemed inspired, but his insights prove to be as middling as the cards that sent him home a loser.
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In their place came the former defender Southgate, a seemingly hail-fellow-well-met with a middling résumé who got the job when his predecessor, Sam Allardyce, was fired amid a corruption scandal after a single game.
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A study by Federal Reserve economist Susan Hickok found that 1980s trade restrictions on just three products — clothing, sugar and automobiles — cost Americans of middling income the equivalent of a 12 percent surcharge on their income taxes.
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Normally, a victory by the greatest women's player of her generation, and perhaps all-time, at one of the WTA Tour's lesser stops against a middling field might not have been expected to generate too much excitement.
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With the Rams about to finish their 13th consecutive season without a winning record, their fans hope that a new coach and some new players can jump-start a middling defense and the league's lowest-scoring offense.
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Presidents with low approval ratings in mid-March of an election year tend to lose, while those with strong approval ratings tend to win in blowouts and those with middling approval ratings usually win by small margins.
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We had a middling week of gambling in Week 12 of the NFL season, going 6-8 against the spread to sustain through a tough week and keep us well in the black so far this season.
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By having us all take up barbarism the Right is spared from the civcuck middling elements having too much a say ... new culture will be anti-fragile to the attaqs against it, it will soon give us victory.
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But after years of middling play on both sides of the ball, and a year removed from getting shut out at Iowa State, Texas at least looks like it has the pieces to get back to that level.
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Within the EU, Germany is a middling country in terms of income inequality, behind a few more egalitarian countries, such as Sweden, and well ahead of more unequal societies in southern and eastern Europe, as well as Britain.
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There are also different levels of seniority, from big beasts who have held the great offices of state, to middling beasts who have a bit of experience but a high opinion of themselves, and a few mini-beasts.
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Thanks partly to British political clout, the EU now has less wasteful agricultural and fisheries policies, a budget to which Britain is a middling net contributor, a liberal single market, a commitment to freer trade and 28 members.
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The eagerly anticipated historical drama opened to a middling $7.1 million at the box office this past weekend, amid a firestorm of scrutiny and outrage directed at filmmaker Nate Parker over his involvement in a college rape trial.
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In addition to middling wages and the burden of student debt, they have to negotiate a thriving gig economy that provides little security and an urban housing market that has increasingly priced out the working and middle classes.
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But NICE is unusual in putting a clear number on the benefit it expects from new drugs, using quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), where one QALY equals a year of perfect health or two years of middling health.
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And while turnout has been higher in this season's special elections and primaries, experts say that in November it is still unlikely to break out of the middling range it has been stuck in for nearly a century.
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So I'll move on to a middling Washington defense that at least can get to the quarterback; against a dreadful Vikings offensive line, that should give me a relatively safe floor if I try them for Week 10.
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Who could have imagined back in 2012 when CW debuted "Arrow," about a middling superhero unfamiliar to many viewers, that it would eventually spawn a rich prime time world encompassing several series and featuring dozens of colorful champions?
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After two years of poor to middling reviews, a Rockettes show aimed at warm-weather crowds has been suspended and will undergo the latest in a series of creative overhauls, the Madison Square Garden Company announced on Friday.
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Joe Biden's middling $15.2 million third-quarter fundraising haul is raising fresh questions about whether the former vice president's campaign can withstand a new onslaught of Republican ad attacks while simultaneously waging a battle for the Democratic nomination.
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However, by Supreme standards, these are all middling brand obsessions—their followers the fair-weather fans to Supreme's ultras: the kids who wait in line, the adult men who'll pay silly money for vintage Supreme-branded incense sticks.
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" Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, was equally blunt in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País when he warned Britain that outside the European Union, it would be "a middling economy stuck in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Everyone else seems to be sleepwalking through a middling episode of a forgettable TV drama — and for some reason, the sound mixing makes it feel as if all of Glover's dialogue has been dubbed in, and not well.
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According to Elo, a rating system that awards points based on the quality of opponents faced, Mr Federer still trails Mr Djokovic, in large part because so many of his 24 wins in 2017 have come against middling competition.
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That one's got a middling 5.7 inch display, octa-core process and a 3,200mAh battery, which is removable – a bit of a signature on LG's recent offerings that sets it apart from much of the rest of the industry.
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If a 15-inch workhorse like the Dell XPS 15 isn't powerful enough for you, and the battery life on gaming laptops like the MSI GS65 is too middling, then check out the new 15.6-inch Razer Blade 15.
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During the baseball card boom market, though, Goose was in his early middle age and primarily an itinerant mustache with a big right arm attached; less metaphorically, he was a middling relief option on what were mostly lousy teams.
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Since the amnesia sitcom Samantha Who went off the air in 2009, Christina Applegate has had a weird few years doing middling movie comedies — Bad Moms, Vacation, Hall Pass, a Bad Moms Christmas sequel (?!) — but what can we say?
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Dining sets gradually became smaller, as wealthy folks favored more intimate gatherings and as shifts in economics meant that the middling classes could also afford a home with a small room (rather than a great hall) dedicated to eating.
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In the opening episodes of this season, Theon, a man of middling morals who was held hostage, tortured, castrated and brainwashed (by Ramsay, as it so happens), is faced with saving his sister during an attack on their ship.
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That falls 22 percentage points below the 90% mark Golden State has posted with a healthy Steph—a difference so big that it suggests Mr Curry could turn a middling squad into a strong title contender all by himself.
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The leader grunts and grinds out his own sinister version of the same song, their discordant duet joined remotely by the woman's ex-husband in the Foreign Legion, also now a seasoned killer and a fair-to-middling baritone.
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The research took into account countries' sociodemographic index (SDI), which demonstrated that countries with the highest increases in obesity are those with low or middling SDIs, struggling with a prevalence of other forms of malnutrition at the same time.
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In Mushroom Garden, a middling game in which you grow fungi on a log, players swipe across the screen to pop the mushrooms out, a sensation that approximates the pleasure of pulling a Bioré pore strip off your nose.
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After a string of middling finishes in the Super Tuesday contests, the Rubio campaign's expectations are catching up with the hard and dire realities of delegate math, a fractured vote and the seemingly unstoppable force that is Mr. Trump.
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After three days of middling output, I was eager to get juiced to the gills and vomit out a shitload of words, even if it meant I might die of caffeine poisoning (as Balzac was rumored to have perished).
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Harvard referred the court to Thang Q. Diep (Harvard Class of 2019), who had only middling test scores but was admitted to the college by showing a strong work ethic and "infectiously happy personality," as his admissions file says.
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The Chinese market, which has a quota system on foreign films, is more complicated than that; while "Black Panther" earned a relatively middling $105 million there, for example, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" made less than half that amount.
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Once a 20043-year-old making his UFC debut in 2012 with middling results in half a dozen fights, he rattled off 10 straight wins in a division where notching a double-digit win streak is no small thing.
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More research is needed before we can be sure that this is not just the latest in a long line of drugs offered to women as a quick fix of middling efficacy, with the potential for unexpected side effects.
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This year, he also had to manage a run of relentlessly middling performances: results that were good enough to be one of the highest seeds in qualifying, but not good enough to grant him direct entry into the draw.
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The country's No. 1 fan, President Xi Jinping, is bent on transforming his nation into a great soccer power, spending vast sums to lure talent from Europe and South America and try to upgrade its poor-to-middling rankings.
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Investor scrutiny has hit a tipping point in the past few months in the wake of WeWork's postponed IPO, SoftBank's optimism around the office-sharing start-up and the middling performance of Peloton out of the gate last week.
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"We had a one-two punch of the Fed and trade this week and that came against a backdrop of middling earnings," said Savita Subramanian, head of United States equity and quantitative strategy for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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"We had a one-two punch of the Fed and trade this week and that came against a backdrop of middling earnings," said Savita Subramanian, head of United States equity and quantitative strategy for Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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At some point in their career, almost every pop star attempts to transition into acting, and the results range from the outrageously bad (Mariah's Glitter, Madonna's Body of Evidence) to the middling (Beyoncé in Dreamgirls, Michael Jackson in The Wiz).
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Her 2009 dark horror-comedy Jennifer's Body, written by Diablo Cody, was ahead of its time — its release met mixed reviews and middling box office, but over time, it slowly picked up a cult audience who came to appreciate its daring.
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Like Trumbo, Segura had one promising year surrounded by other middling to disappointing ones: Trumbo represented the Angels in the All-Star Game in 2012, Segura represented the Brewers a year later, and that was about it for both of them.
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Looking at the bottom of the phone, you'll find two speakers of middling sound quality and they definitely won't fill a whole room as a speakerphone, which is an odd miss considering how often the speakerphone is used by business customers.
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Repeated attempts throughout the year by certain banks to shore up their capital structures, in conjunction with a spate of government initiatives, have met with middling success and have failed to convince investors of their potential to end the crisis.
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The Seahawks appear to have doubled down on their bargain-bin strategy one too many times: The offensive line can neither open holes for their unproven running backs nor protect Wilson, and the receivers can't get open against middling secondaries.
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Although he was aware of the middling reviews for his Iggy Pop and the Stooges documentary Gimme Danger—one of the few nonfiction films in Cannes's official selection—his mood seemed as bright and even as the clear skies above.
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" Some of the tracks in the middle-ground are indeed middling until the introspective state of the union track "SIRENS"—"Wise enough, advise the public, pistol bust, screamin' 'fuck it' / Donald Trump, Donald Duck, what the fuck is the difference?
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Bellemare broke a 2-2 tie with the game-winning goal 3:21 into the third period, helping the middling Flyers (27-22-133) stem the tide and climb within three points of the Eastern Conference's second wild-card spot.
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Woodman acknowledges that the trend of middling sales figures will likely hold until GoPro releases a set of new devices at the end of this year, including the Hero 5, GoPro's first drone, and a spherical camera made for general consumers.
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And let me also remind you: A government shutdown -- given historical midterm trends for the President's party, the lack of legislative accomplishments for the Republican Congress and Trump's middling approval numbers -- would almost certainly be a political catastrophe for Republicans.
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On Pro Basketball Now that some of the N.B.A.'s middling (or worse) players are among the richest athletes in professional team sports, the league should summon its inner Bernie Sanders and spare some comparative loose change for its most impoverished.
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By contrast, Peter Martins, however beautifully he danced, was, at best, a middling choreographer, until, in the late eighties, perhaps under the strain of being compared with Balanchine night after night, he became something worse, a very pissed-off person.
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Apple's MacBook lineup now features the impossibly thin MacBook Air, the impossibly thinner MacBook, a whole host of MacBook Pros with Retina displays that look gorgeous, and a heavy, middling laptop it hasn't updated or changed the specs on since 2012.
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Moreover, Mrs Clinton's vaunted analytics department can target persuadable voters whose doors await a knock, and likely supporters with a middling propensity to vote who could use a ride to the polls, with the pinpoint accuracy of a Facebook advertisement.
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That gentleman having been unexpectedly called away on family matters, a last-minute substitute was found, in the form of a middling third-year medical student making his maiden voyage: a young man by the name of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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The last 30 minutes of Captain Marvel: I wasn't super high on Captain Marvel, mainly because the first act hinges too much on a middling amnesia plot, and at times, everyone but Captain Marvel gets the fun superhero stuff to do.
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Keith Urban found MacKenzie's rearrangement of Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me" middling and maudlin and would've preferred it completely stripped down, while Harry Connick Jr. thought the song needed its original double-time beat to energize it.
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Today at CES, the hardware giant announced the Odyssey, a portable gaming notebook available in 17.3-inch and 15.6-inch configurations, both sporting a middling 1,920 x 1080 display with a top brightness of 300 nits and HDR video capabilities.
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Susan Chana, a spokeswoman for the credit bureau Equifax, said the extra information — "trended credit data," in industry jargon — may help more borrowers who have middling credit scores but who have managed their credit card debt responsibly, qualify for home loans.
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In the otherwise middling thriller "Don't Go," Dorff is strikingly enigmatic in his role as Ben, an acclaimed writer remaking his life as a schoolteacher in Ireland with his wife, Hazel (Melissa George), after the sudden death of their young daughter.
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Chaotically refined, verdantly concrete, intimately gargantuan: The most populous metropolis in South America was but a middling coffee city until the mid-231th century, when an influx of northeastern migrants set off a growth spurt that shows no sign of stopping.
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Set in the small town of Evening Shade, Arkansas, the series is middling when it comes to the quality of its actual jokes, but Reynolds attracted a top-flight cast, including everybody from Charles Durning to Marilu Henner to Ossie Davis.
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He redeemed himself a bit at the 2012 combine, where he was dazzlingly good at a bunch of basketball-adjacent things, and his raw ability and Young Republican poise superseded his 75 games of weirdly middling production as a collegian.
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But thanks to some middling X-Men comics that fans wouldn't mind forgetting, combined with Marvel's cinematic arm reacquiring the X-Men and the promise of mutants in the MCU, a perfect storm of excitement for X-Men fans has begun.
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The Yankees made a similar calculus with Corbin, whom they viewed as a very good pitcher — they had tried to trade for him last winter — but one who had several middling seasons after Tommy John surgery before blossoming last season.
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But stuck in the low single digits in both national and early state polls, with a middling small-dollar fund-raising operation, he has started to sprinkle his unity-themed stump speech with some slight contrasts to other Democratic candidates.
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Mr. Gutiérrez said Mr. Trump's early comments in Puerto Rico about the cost, and his complaint on Twitter that Puerto Ricans "want everything to be done for them," set a tone that led to a middling response by his administration.
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He has, instead, run the White House in the manner of the Trump Organization, where people of middling qualifications were paid exorbitant salaries that made up for the high level of stress that came with trying to follow Trump's lead.
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Similarly, a room dedicated to illusionistic painting includes trompe l'oeil works by Edward Collier and others of flower studies; these are not only middling, but, crucially, are described as significant only because they were collected by members of the court.
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Hypothetical Scenario 3: Mr. Spiegel continues to hold the shares and keep his day job and at age 50 is head of a middling internet company with great potential, but he refuses to give up control, or starts behaving erratically.
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While the winnings will not be the windfall the soccer club Leicester City delivered to fans who got 5,2100-2150 odds on the middling club winning the Premier League two years ago, the money will be nothing to sneeze at.
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Tropical Storm Karen, which has been described by meteorologists as "disorganized," with only a middling chance of becoming a stronger tropical cyclone, is still a threat to lives and property, particularly in Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from Hurricane Maria.
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The Jets, pummeled by poor quarterback play, bad special teams, a middling defense and injuries to key players like Eric Decker and Nick Mangold, have been unable to fulfill the promise they showed last season, when they went 10-6.
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President Trump recognizes that the American people have no appetite for another decade of U.S. military involvement in the Mideast, least of all with a middling power like Iran whose ambitions are already more than balanced by its antagonistic neighbors.
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Nonetheless, in a sport as superstar-driven as basketball, there is good reason to impute the bulk of a great team's achievements to its strongest contributor—and, conversely, the blame for a middling club′s lack of accomplishments to its best player.
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And in the story of Dr. Freeman, a middling physician who actually begins trying to help people becomes so enamored with the fame and attention he receives that he never realizes the damage he's doing to everyone around him, patients and family alike.
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Originally intended to curtail the perception that gang activity was getting worse in the state, the law—in large part because of its so-called gang enhancements, or tag-on charges—has drawn scrutiny for what appear to be generally middling results.
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Next year, with an invigorated Gasol, healthy Conley, and a prodigious European talent entering the frame to offer long-term hope and short-term assistance, Memphis can make the playoffs, let Boston take a middling first-round pick, and avoid the apocalypse.
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But if you can get over their bulbous size and middling battery life, you'll find a pair of true wireless earbuds that sound very good â€" better than AirPods, in my opinion â€" whether you're at your desk, running, or working out.
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Thompson's grappling is as middling as Maia's striking, and the great governing principle of MMA for the last 15 years has been that only when every art form is mastered and integrated with all the others do you get a great fighter.
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With Mr Murray struggling to return from his own ailments and no other strong contenders in the field, Mr Djokovic may soon get a taste of the middling level of competition that Mr Federer enjoyed before the rest of the Big Four emerged.
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Pruitt abused a loophole to give EPA staffers raises, demanded a 20-person security detail, had a motorcade take him to a middling, overrated DC restaurant because he was running late, and retaliated against EPA employees who called him out on it.
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Whereas the death rate from prescription painkillers is more or less the same in America's four regions, deaths from heroin and synthetic opioids are high in the Midwest and north-east, middling in the South and low in the West (see chart 2).
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In 2015 a survey at one middling university found that only one-sixth of those applying to the party were doing so to "serve the people", and that only a quarter could say that they had a "very strong" desire to be accepted.
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Swift released her album reputation in early November to middling reviews and, though she takes some mild swings at West in the song "This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things," the album didn't make the same waves that "Famous" once did.
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U.S. extra long staple cotton, or "pima," trades for 152.25 cents per lb, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon data, a 125 percent premium over cotton prices on ICE Futures U.S., a contract that accepts cotton of a "strict low middling staple length".
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If this report's numbers are to be believed, a government could spend 10% of any additional infusion of aid on the best initiatives, squander the rest and still do more good than if it spent all the extra money on a middling policy.
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The men in the group with the lowest VO2 max had a 21 percent higher risk of dying prematurely than those with middling aerobic capacity, and about a 42 percent higher risk of early death than the men who were the most fit.
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If we must grade Trump officials on a curve, though, the appropriate test isn't whether Kelly has the mettle to fire a middling buffoon, but whether he can restrain the one who inhabits the Oval Office from gutting the rule of law.
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Drouin, who has had a middling season in Montreal after being acquired last summer from the Tampa Bay Lightning, broke a 1-1 tie with a power-play goal at the 8:29 mark of the second period at the Bell Centre.
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After a middling first season and a terrific second season, it was anybody's guess how AMC's 1980s-set tech drama might fare in season three — particularly with the departure of its showrunner and the addition of an almost entirely new writing staff.
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Even though sales returns have been generally disappointing compared to past efforts—middling reviews and a dogged loyalty to the sound that made them could be factors—Florida Georgia Line's brand and narrative is a certified moneymaker in more lucrative business categories.
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But the Hawkeyes' fate in 2016 largely hinges on which Iowa squad from 2015 shows up: the elite bunch that piled up impressive numbers and started last season 7-0, or the middling team that finished 5-20163 while taking a statistical nosedive.
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First Words When a 35-year-old named Sam Hinkie became president and general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers in 2013, the team was a middling N.B.A. franchise whose city, like most cities, felt it had won fewer titles than it deserved.
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Effectively, until the 693 Senate race, Moore was at best an Alabama Republican with middling appeal, and at worst the state's answer to Harold Stassen: a frequent candidate who rarely, if ever, won or even came close to winning top-tier races.
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In October 2017, Tsai paid a little more than $1 billion to acquire 49 percent of the Brooklyn Nets from Mikhail D. Prokhorov; the team had achieved mostly middling results on the court since he offered to buy the franchise in 2009.
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But Chrome, who was bred from an $8,000 mare and a middling sire whose services at the time cost only $2,000, romped to victory in the 2014 Kentucky Derby, making Sherman the oldest trainer to have won the sport's most prestigious race.
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The movie, which notched middling reviews (it currently holds a 56 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes) centers on two siblings (played by Sophia Lillis and Sammy Leakey) who find themselves lured into the woodland cottage of an old, malevolent woman (Alice Krige).
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Woods, an eight-times winner at Firestone, electrified the gallery with three early birdies but in the end managed only a middling 68 on a course that was there for the taking, with soft greens allowing players to fire aggressively at the pins.
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