Jean-Paul Chifflet, Crédit Agricole's chief executive, said in a statement that the results reflected "resilient revenues and income in the group's core businesses, a persistently moderate cost of risk and a steady decline in expenses, in a mediocre economic environment".
After the earnings announcement, Goldman Sachs reiterated an "outperform" rating on Intel, saying the company can expand its gross margin leverage even in a mediocre end-market environment.
App developers who wanted to expand to it as well had a choice: either learn how to develop native Android apps, or expend a comparable amount of time and energy learning how to write cross-platform apps that would be mediocre on the iOS environment where they already excelled.
It creates mediocre teams and an environment that is passive aggressive or aggressive - where everyone is on their own to win.
Unlike the intellectually drab environment of the mediocre school at 's Hertogenbosch, the monastery at Steyn included at least some members who shared his interest in classical literature and encouraged his intellectual longings.
But the era lasted long enough to make Americans think of it as normal, and to leave us wondering about what feels like an "abnormal" environment of volatile markets and mediocre returns.
Even with a mediocre teacher, a student who has been motivated by his home environment will learn.
Environments with anti-diversity sentiments are poison and generate mediocre results.
For example, some countries may perform well because of the favorable environment, such as better governance, while other countries may deliver a mediocre amount of HIV/AIDS services under a harsh environment.
It's a mediocre shooter with a few smart ideas related to time manipulation; the main hook was a weapon to send the environment sailing forward and backward in time.
