The company uses a traffic colour-coding system: green for good, yellow for mediocre and red for bad, making it easy for German and non-German speakers alike to assess the sustainability of a wide range of products.
In her office, she showed me the color-coded map — green for high-performing sections, yellow for mediocre performance, and red for low-performing ones, such as "Judaica" and "journalism".
Images were colour coded according to the intensity of light emission from black (none) over brown-red (mediocre) to yellow and white (maximum) while blue signified signal overload.
At the start, the school issued each of us two white coats embroidered with our name, a set of mediocre knives and a red plastic toolbox holding whisks, tongs, a wooden spoon, a pepper mill, a meat thermometer and a pastry bag and metal tips.
For each industry leader there are dozens of me-too companies also bid up to astronomical prices that have mediocre business plans, hemorrhage red ink and have little hope of long-term survival.
I remember once I spent £30 on a mediocre bottle of house red in a Trondheim restaurant.
There are far better reasons to go there than to face down huge portions of mediocre pasta in a red-checked ambience, as I did at one of the few restaurants open at peak vacation time last week.
After Hornsby completed two mediocre seasons with the club, the Reds announced that he would not return for 1954.
"Mediocre," reads one teacher's notation in red pen.
Thence to Piazza Navona, once used for chariot racing but now filled with rotund, red-faced tourists gawping at the same mediocre paintings you find on the Green Park railings in London on a Sunday.
