You have seen some initial public offerings that have been mediocre performers.

Warner Music is a mediocre performer in a troubled industry.

Why should politicians and decision-makers listen to these mediocre performers?

It lost 5.61 percent during a year when mediocre performers had tidy gains.

She had developed great relationships with conductors and performers - it was only the academics who were mediocre performers, and often worse teachers, who created the problems.

Among his current recommendations is the Pasadena Growth Fund, a mediocre performer during the last three years that has gained about 6 percent a year.

The Kinks followed Think Visual in 1987 with another live album, The Road, which was a mediocre commercial and critical performer.

Here, instead, are mediocre performers in intriguing music that is worthy of a better effort.

Now the emphasis has shifted to America, another mediocre international performer, yet already proving a dangerous template for aggressive fast-paced reform over here.

All of these factors have fueled a wave of mergers and acquisitions as companies seek to shed mediocre performers and acquire new category leaders.