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After a string of mediocre seasons, a rejuvenated Johnson rebounded in 1924 to win 23 games with the help of his catcher, Muddy Ruel, as the Senators won the American League pennant for the first time in the history of the franchise.

After a mediocre year where the Twins played. 500 baseball for most of the season, the team won 17 of their last 21 games to tie the Detroit Tigers for the lead in the Central Division.

Following this year, the team slipped, posting mediocre records from 1989 through 1991, after which Trebelhorn was fired.

His efforts began to accrue debt as the Titans ' first two seasons were mediocre with attendance dropping in the team's second year.

In 1995, following a mediocre 6 – 10 season under Pete Carroll, despite generally shying away from football operations, Hess announced " I'm 80 years old, I want results now " during a conference in which Rich Kotite was introduced as the team's new coach.

The Giants, considered a mediocre team at the time, were regarded as underdogs and were under much scrutiny by the media and their fans.

In 2004, May wrote that Oxford's poetry was " one man's contribution to the rhetorical mainstream of an evolving Elizabethan poetic " and challenged readers to distinguish any of it from " the output of his mediocre mid-century contemporaries ".

This considerable spending gap allowed the Chinese economy to grow at near optimal conditions while many South American economies suffered from various development bottlenecks ( poor transportation networks, aging power grids, mediocre schools ...).

one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

The unprepared Soviet forces suffered much damage in the field because of mediocre officers, partial mobilization, an incomplete reorganization and mainly because they were arranged to attack Central Europe, and not to defend Soviet territory.

At this stage of his career, he had played 13 Tests with mediocre results.

Per capita GDP growth has proved mediocre, though improving, growing by 1. 6 % a year from 1994 to 2009, and by 2. 2 % over the 2000 – 09 decade.

Matt Williams and Glenallen Hill were the only other Giants with 20 + HR, and the rest of the team had mediocre offensive numbers.

The Giants started off the regular season slow, had spurts of promise but more often stretches of mediocre to worse play.

This was also the only Super Bowl to date between two teams who had losing records the previous season, although Super Bowl XXXIV matched a team that had a losing record in 1998 ( St. Louis Rams ) vs. a team that finished a mediocre 8-8 that year ( Tennessee Titans ).

The Sinhalese prefer to send their children to English speaking countries for their education and consider Italian education mediocre.

It is usually found on FM radio music stations in morning drive, as the actual hot talk formatted stations have only achieved mediocre success as a whole compared to AM or conservative talk radio, or even FM music radio.

With its mediocre performance, outdated and inefficient two-stroke engine ( which returned poor fuel economy for the car's size and produced heavy exhaust ), and production shortages, the Trabant is often cited as an example of the disadvantages of centralized planning ; on the other hand, it is regarded with derisive affection as a symbol of the failed former East Germany and of the fall of communism ( in former West Germany, as many East Germans streamed into West Berlin and West Germany in their Trabants after the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ).

Additionally, Brooks muses that " good " programmers are generally five to ten times as productive as mediocre ones.

With Katsushirō's assistance, he recruits four more masterless samurai: Gorobei Katayama, clever and good natured ; Heihachi, a good-humored samurai with mediocre swordsmanship ; Shichirōji, an old friend of Kambei's ; and Kyūzō, a taciturn master swordsman.

Despite mediocre generalship, they managed to capture the Russian port of Sevastopol, compelling Tsar Nicholas I to ask for peace.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill put Britain back on the gold standard in 1925, which many economists blame for the mediocre performance of the economy.

The reviews there were also mostly positive, but the critic Kenneth Tynan angered them when he suggested that Leigh's was a mediocre talent that forced Olivier to compromise his own.

1998 Seiko marketed the Ruputer, a computer in a ( fairly large ) wristwatch, to mediocre returns.

After two mediocre years, Spurrier resigned after the 2003 season with three years left on his contract.