"This is something that shouldn't just be torn down and replaced with some standard, mediocre housing development or shopping center, because it's wasting an existing asset that we already have".
So though Mary loves and would vote for Argo, Ron basically thinks that film had mediocre character development but that, in effect, Lincoln peaked in 1865, too soon for its Oscar prospects.
KeySpan, yielding 4.5%, has mediocre growth potential.
A couple of years ago, she was seated at a dinner next to Jim Lowenberg, a developer who had built a number of mediocre condominium towers in a huge development over the old Illinois Central rail yards, known as Lakeshore East.
Within a few pages of the start of the book, Milo has lost his cruddy job in "the development office of a mediocre university in New York City".
In Lipsyte's third novel, Milo Burke, a failed artist, works in the development office of a mediocre university in New York to support his resentful wife and preschool-age son.
A recently fired development officer at a mediocre university, Milo is offered a chance to win his job back if he can solicit a major donation -- an "ask" -- from an old college friend who's now a Machiavellian tech millionaire.
Well, in a recent interview, THQ's VP of Global Publishing Ian Curran has come out and said that spending development dollars on a mediocre title equals death in the marketplace.
In "The Ask," Milo Burke is a development officer at what he calls "Mediocre university".
By Thessaly La Force April 7, 2010 In "The Ask," Milo Burke is a development officer at what he calls "Mediocre university".
