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  • This Sunday, they'll face a middling team in the AFC West that runs the ball a ton and has a weird situation at quarterback, yet has a decent-enough defense to make up for its shortcomings on the other side of the ball.

    Yet Another Foe Who Can't Throw Chris Herring 2011

  • SUPPORT FOR CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS GOING SOUTH - If an election in Upstate New York isn't a decent-enough barometer of the public souring on the GOP's plan to put your Grandma's Boniva at the mercy of the market, this should be: a Democracy Corps survey finding disapproval of congressional Republicans at 59 percent.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Activist Judge Rules Corporations Are Sentient Beings Eliot Nelson 2011

  • On the other end of the age spectrum, "Red" earned $22.5 million, a decent-enough showing.

    'Jackass 3-D': America, you made it No. 1 Jen Chaney 2010

  • The post was written by Jack Coleman, whom I've never met and who may be a decent-enough guy for all I know, and it essentially used one line from the piece I put together on Olbermann's suspension last week to make a point I guess he felt needed to be made -- one which, not surprisingly, confirms what I have to assume are his own firmly-held biases.

    Chez Pazienza: A Fox on Both Your Houses? Chez Pazienza 2010

  • The post was written by Jack Coleman, whom I've never met and who may be a decent-enough guy for all I know, and it essentially used one line from the piece I put together on Olbermann's suspension last week to make a point I guess he felt needed to be made -- one which, not surprisingly, confirms what I have to assume are his own firmly-held biases.

    Chez Pazienza: A Fox on Both Your Houses? Chez Pazienza 2010

  • The post was written by Jack Coleman, whom I've never met and who may be a decent-enough guy for all I know, and it essentially used one line from the piece I put together on Olbermann's suspension last week to make a point I guess he felt needed to be made -- one which, not surprisingly, confirms what I have to assume are his own firmly-held biases.

    Chez Pazienza: A Fox on Both Your Houses? Chez Pazienza 2010

  • While she is the right age and has a decent-enough look not to mention the perfect last name!

    Sansa, The Little Bird 2009

  • Their analysis: Marco Rubio, who has shown no inclination to exit stage right for Charlie Crist, has started to rack up some endorsements like those of Mike Huckabee and Jeb Bush Jr. Even if Rubio were to upset Crist in the Republican primary, however, he'd still stand a decent-enough chance in the general election, as the field of Democratic candidates started out fairly weak and is getting weaker.

    538.com downgrades Dem chances in FL Peter Schorsch 2009

  • John Cena is a decent-enough adequate action hero, but Aidan Gillen (Shanghai Knights) makes a fine villain and Brian J. White (I Can Do Bad All By Myself) makes a surprisingly sympathetic best friend/partner.

    Scott Mendelson: 2009 in Review: The Guilty Pleasures, the Surprisingly Good, and the Runners-up 2009

  • On the whole, the piece reads like a decent-enough inside-the-book column that was pumped up by editors at deadline looking for something buzzworthy -- or more buzzworthy than "India's Trillionaire," one of the issue's lengthier features -- to put on the cover.

    Yvette Kantrow: Apocalypto 2008

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