Bill Belichick, the Patriots' head coach, will have an unenviable decision to make: whether to play a more traditional defense that protects against the pass and risk allowing Tebow and the Denver option running attack to murder them on the ground or to play a more run-focused defense that puts New England's mediocre cornerbacks on an island in man-to-man coverage.
And yet America, which leads the world in developing new drugs, ranks a mediocre 29th in life expectancy.
This year's mediocre ratings are nothing new for an NBA final featuring Kobe Bryant as the main attraction.
Even if this new effort from Microsoft is a mediocre success, it will accelerate the trend towards cable TV cord-cutting.
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Moreover, less than a third of new drugs these days are first or second in their class and it is hard to charge blockbuster prices for the mediocre medications and line extensions that make up the rest of the new products.
Pfizer is pouring resources into new cancer drugs, but the results have been mediocre.
The New York Jets are in the midst of the mediocre season everyone expected of them in September.
Perhaps you upload the blurry mess to Facebook or YouTube, but in the end, it ultimately just gets filed deep within your camera roll with the pointless images of some overpriced, mediocre meal you ate from a trendy new food truck.
But the first two productions, a mediocre "La Traviata" and the New York premiere of "Prima Donna" (2009), a debut opera by the eccentric pop-music celebrity Rufus Wainwright both staged this month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music do not augur well for its artistic future.
Mediocre results and gilt-edged paychecks land the Bank of New York's Thomas Renyi near the bottom of our rankings.
The T4215 takes over where the mediocre T4210 left off, but offers up a plethora of new hardware choices, and even promises a respectable battery life.
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Pete Mangurian's last stint on the New York City football scene was nearly 20 years ago, when he spent three mediocre years as the Giants' offensive line coach.
New York, home to Wall Street and many leading consulting, legal and professional firms, ranks a mediocre 32nd out of the 51 largest metro areas, with relatively meager growth of 8.5%.
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So what can supervisors do with new employees who expect to be rewarded simply for showing up, ask for a raise after a month of mediocre performance, and think they are automatically smarter than their experienced older colleagues?
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