The official response from the museum was lacking, at best: Kravis and Menschel spared a scant 200 words in their response letter, which claimed that "all compensation paid to Mr Lowry has been part of the museum's operating budget and reported on its tax forms" - but only since 2004.
Most experts agree that Latino outreach before last week's midterm election was lacking, at best.
The current Emergency Room system in the County of Los Angeles is lacking at best - public or private.
However, Josh Eells of Blender was not impressed, writing that the song "manages to make two of the most desirable people on the planet [Usher and Knowles] sound chaste", while IGN's Chad Grischow called the record "bland" and "lacking at best".
It said that "the regular public reporting" on pollution levels through modelling was "lacking transparency at best, and … misleading at worst".
Nonetheless, while aspirin remains the cornerstone anti- platelet agent for secondary prevention of vascular complications among all patients, irrespective of DM status [ 20], direct evidence of its efficacy and safety in primary prevention is lacking or at best inconclusive [ 21– 21].
First, although the State Council's legislation acknowledges aims to protect rights of HIV or AIDS patient including the rights to truthful information and confidentiality and to be free from various kinds of discrimination, the general framework of patients' rights is lacking, or at best only implicit.
But the new development agenda has been said to lack at best, a clear vision and at worst, a grip on reality.
Despite the accumulating evidence demonstrating its potential, engagement via a positive deviance approach is lacking, or intermittent at best.
New guidelines for the peer review of publications and grant applications introduced in the past year, while well-intended, lack the necessary consequences, e.g., denial of funding, that would result in sustained improvements when scientific rigor is lacking and/or transparency is, at best, opaque.
But most often detailed information about source populations is, at best, lacking or at worst, complicated by an unknowable number of multiple introductions to multiple locations over decades with little knowledge about the time and place of initial invasion.
