It is a rarity among Russian consumer goods companies, whose products normally cannot compete internationally because of poor quality.
There's a history of foreign automakers — Hyundai, for instance — stumbling upon their first exposure to American consumers, usually because of poor quality.
An independent inspector estimated for the clinic that only $30,000 worth of work had been done on the house, and that much of it needed to be redone because of poor quality.
Dr. Wise, the chairman of surgery who was brought in to save the residency program, which was close to closing in the mid-1990's because of poor quality, denied that his department was in turmoil.
Critics and analysts have widely praised the company's new autos, but persuading shoppers — some who swore off G.M. products decades ago because of poor quality or bland designs — to visit showrooms has remained difficult.
The agency's enforcement officials are considering two possibilities: that the cadmium was accidentally included because of poor quality control in China or that somewhere in the production process industrial wastes containing cadmium were deliberately added to agricultural products bound for export.
Gathering Round TV's Television, illegal under the Taliban but reborn in recent months, is of course the most popular means of disseminating new ideas and values, though the station's equipment is dilapidated and many shows have to be shot several times because of poor quality video and cameras that fail.
More than 800 events were discarded from the dataset because of poor quality.
The disease-carrying potential of rodents continues to be a major socioeconomic issue, and is particularly acute in tropical developing countries, where people are living in closer proximity to rodents because of poor-quality housing, infrastructure and sanitation.
Because of poor-quality soil, much of Wales is unsuitable for crop-growing and livestock farming has traditionally been the focus of agriculture.
Four were excluded because of poor-quality MRI data.
