" 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.
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".
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.
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.
The man who spearheaded that advance was never content to be second-rate.
"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 industry was reluctant to offer digital distribution itself, partly because it feared that it would no longer be able to sell second-rate songs bundled with more popular ones.
Digital delivery means readers outside the New York area no longer face a choice between paying more for the Times or settling for a second-rate local paper like, say, the Gainesville Sun.
That, in combination with the not overly large size means that, while there might be more pixel-dense displays around, what you're getting on the Desire X doesn't appear to be low-quality, or second-rate.
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In secular bull markets, on average, sell decisions are not as rewarding as hold decisions, as market valuations are expanding and even the second-rate dogs of the equity markets start looking like pedigreed cocker spaniels.
Jarrold and his screenwriters, Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams, have decided to treat the life of Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) as if it were itself the plot of an undiscovered Austen novel, albeit a second-rate one.
Or do we think that at some point companies say, you know what, America has got a second-rate infrastructure and it costs us too much money because our trucks going over those potholes are getting messed up?
This lies behind the British government's desire (unmatched by the necessary money) to have 50% of the 18-30 age group in university by 2010 and behind much German anxiety about that country's crowded but increasingly second-rate universities.
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