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.
In the USA Today article, Nicholas Cummings, chief psychologist at Kaiser Permanente from 1959 to 1979 and at the American Psychological Association from 1979 to 1980, boasted his personal success rate with the "reorientation" of many patients while at Kaiser and that hundreds saw "satisfactory outcomes".
In a story with no happy endings, it's good to see this satisfactory one.
She said by telephone she feared that if Judge Daniels was not replaced with "someone else who will work faster, I won't live to see any satisfactory outcome to this case at all".
"I'm expecting the sequester to take effect," he said recently, because he does not now expect to see a satisfactory alternative to those cuts from Senate Democrats or Mr Obama.
Boyle had shown conclusively that the traditional four "elements" were certainly not elementary substances, but at the same time he confessed that he did not yet see any satisfactory method to determine which substances were true elements.
Though EA emphasized the full removal of in-game purchases was temporary, it's clear that the community is volatile and will react negatively to changes it doesn't see as satisfactory.
"Having failed to see a satisfactory improvement in performances and results, which had been promised by himself and the players, the board had no option but to make the decision to terminate his contract.
However, the Department of Buildings cannot issue a permit for construction without a letter from the commission — which has decided to withhold that letter until it sees a satisfactory evaluation of environmental and historical preservation issues raised by the community board.
Sir Stuart - who is now non-executive chairman and plans to stand down next March - said M&S had also seen a "satisfactory start" to the new financial year.
