Even that mediocre mark seemed to improve for the Giants when Dallas and Philadelphia, their nearest rivals in the National Football Conference East, lost Sunday.
"If you just focus on the people in the Rubber Rooms, you miss the real point, which is that, by making it so hard to get even the obvious freaks and crazies that are there off the payroll, you insure that the teachers who are simply incompetent or mediocre are never incented to improve and are never removable," Anthony Lombardi says.
But they are not movie stars or supermodels: they are Hong Kong's A-list "tutor kings" and "tutor queens", offering pupils a chance to improve mediocre grades.
And it's the most promising answer to the trillion-dollar question: what can we do to improve our mediocre health outcomes, bring U.S. healthcare costs in line with peer countries, and remove the enormous burden that a grossly inefficient healthcare system imposes on our economy?
And it suggests that the angry, worried debate over how to improve the nation's mediocre education — pitting the teachers' unions and the advocates of more money for public schools against the champions of school vouchers and standardized tests — is missing the most important part: infants and toddlers.
If that data is not available, then you might have to deploy a mediocre prediction machine and wait for it to improve over time.
For example, the report cites the mediocre success of a BBC pilot programme to improve relations with local newspapers by crediting their stories online when they are lifted by the corporation's reporters.
The pervading culture sees "satisfactory" as mediocre or only average and this is not helping to improve teaching, or indeed our use of the English language.
The picture drawn by Keogh and his team was of mediocre hospitals, geographically, professionally or academically isolated, struggling and failing to improve without the help and support they needed.
well, they will try to improve in some areas that have simply become mediocre, and they will have to do it without their punt return specialist, Leon Johnson, and with a new punter, John Kidd.
The blues maintain an 18-point lead over the Labour Party on economic management, which one mediocre growth figure is unlikely to erode (Labour no longer talks about needing to improve growth).
