Stop judging the industry by the lowest common denominator, which is the independent, investment-challenged slug sitting on line at BART.

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Wal Mart is the lowest common denominator in retail.

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Just as the right answer to inequitable application of national security-minded export controls is not to dumb down ours to the lowest common denominator applied by others, our approach on capital markets transparency ought to be to bring others' exchanges up to our new, higher standard.

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In none of these will it be easy to find a compromise that is any better than the lowest common denominator.

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The danger is not just that Germans may have to endure another coalition of the lowest common denominator.

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His passion is to keep the bar high in a culture that often opts for the lowest common denominator.

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