But humans can't be less than human, and intelligence doesn't function below its own level.

All students in the program were functioning at or below the American norm on standardized tests last fall.

They are only able to output above a certain power level and cannot function below that point.

Furthermore, the negative feeling sometimes takes place fast and without reasoning, functioning below the level of attention, thus resembling an automatic process.

Certainly he'd been functioning at well below 100 percent.

These clients function below the level of a 5-year-old.

"Chiun says you can function below peak and work to it."

The body, functioning a split second below its unimpaired best, wrenched the plane to the right.

They function below the level of thought.

Over 77 percent are severely or profoundly retarded, with little or no language, functioning below a 5-year-old level.