" By contrast the current show, says this dealer, has "a lot of second-rate work.
For years, Jake had been touring second-rate halls and clubs with his own band.
Picking stocks in emerging markets no longer means having to settle for second-rate companies.
But Indian customers do not want second-rate people with no other work to do.
It's so interesting that something considered dirty and second-rate is being embraced by the industry.
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Bank One covers a huge swathe of American finance, but it is second-rate in most areas.
Most locally made feature films are second-rate movies that go straight to cable television in America.
Now, as a Philadelphian, I am, like all Philadelphians, intensely aware that my native city is second-rate.
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Peter Riddell in The Times recently described the Shadow Cabinet as "among the most second-rate in a generation".
We know some lovely second-rate people, and it's unfair to compare them to Chuck Hagel and John Kerry.
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Some people think that a shake-out would be beneficial, because it would rid the business of second-rate establishments.
Gibbs sold off his second-rate oil and gas fields and renamed the company.
This is no second-rate shower smooth river rocks, tropical plants and bamboo shades (for total privacy) make this luxe Hawaiian experience.
In other words, Apple had been stuck with a second-rate Google Maps app while Android had a far better one.
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Novelists trafficking in the present would do well to abandon their lingering prejudices against historical fiction as something ready-made and second-rate.
French isn't sure just what that attribute is, but there is something about second-rate companies and industries that makes investors shy away.
True, but we have to say, that "second-rate people" quote offends us.
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The man who spearheaded that advance was never content to be second-rate.
As anyone who cares about education will tell you, Harvard (and the Ivy League schools in general) have a second-rate, watered down education.
"Ireland are not a second-rate team, they are supposed to be a first-rate team, " insisted Trapattoni, who managed Italy from 2000 to 2004.
If a second-rate exchange is first to attract a critical mass of trading, even a better trading system may fail to wrest business away.
When there's no affordable child care, that hurts children who wind up in second-rate care, or spending afternoons alone in front of the television set.
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First, as my fellow Forbes contributor Peter Cohan points out, even if it is successful, the strategy will effectively make Dell a second-rate IBM.
The risk with this is that consumers will get second-rate advice.
My petulant badgering of Audin had been nothing more than second-rate theatrics, which no doubt all of the Afghans expected from an earnest and self-righteous American.
Although there are always bottom-feeders in search of a bargain, for the most part buyers will shy away from second-rate or difficult works, even by famous names.
The graft-busting Central Vigilance Commission found that the use of second-rate materials and inflated pricing was widespread in preparations for the games, the most expensive in history.
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"Frankly, what he has appointed are second-rate people, " he said.
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While the president's attention and his administration's talent have focused on fighting terrorists and remaking Iraq, economics has been reduced to one issue tax cuts and left to a second-rate crowd.
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