In return, the middlemen get up to 15 percent of the wholesale price of the wine — not bad when a bottle of Château Latour sells for around 300 euros (nearly $400) in a mediocre vintage, much more in a great one.
Of the teams in this group, In sum, a team that is mediocre is much more likely to contend in the near future than a loser.
This has helped to uphold the notion that people who excel at what they do deserve to be paid much more than those who are merely mediocre.
A candidate claiming that his business acumen will enable him to manage America deserved much more scrutiny of his bankruptcies and mediocre investing".
1. Zach Sudfeld, New England Patriots — The 6-foot-5 tight end is a mediocre blocker, but much more impressive in the passing game as he leverages his body extremely well to make difficult catches.
You're much more likely to go to a mediocre gym near your office or home than to a great gym that's out of your way.
At the same time, they have little tolerance for a government that will strip them of that promise -- or at least make its realization much more difficult -- in exchange for a mediocre, albeit government-secured, existence.
But these days, many workers have lost a near guarantee on a decent wage and benefits — and their careers are likely to have much more volatility (great years; bad years; confusing, mediocre years) than their parents' ever did.
It's much more difficult to brag when you're only mediocre, and then your arrogance just comes off as ignorance.
Thanks to economies of scale, products that start out mediocre often get better without getting much more expensive — the newest Flip, for instance, shoots in high-def and has four times as much memory as the original — so consumers can trade down without a significant drop in quality.
