underachieve

• “Black children underachieve, she said, "because of what the well-meaning liberal does to him".”

  The Huffington Post: Christina Patterson: The Perils of Straight-talking on Race

• “Most of us still have the capacity to take additional actions that would improve both short-run and long-run growth prospects," and the biggest risk to the global recovery is that advanced nations underachieve on growth, Mr. Geithner said.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Geithner Takes Aim at China Currency

• “Or maybe they will continue to underachieve, because there are some deep-seated problems in San Francisco.”

  The Huffington Post: The BIGGEST NFL Disappointments Heading Into Week 4 (PHOTOS)

• “The greatest risk to the world economy today is that the largest economies underachieve on growth," Geithner told the gathering.”

  The Washington Post: U.S. warns China on currency policy

• “Until the Sharks stop concentrating on having great regular seasons and instead build their team for the playoff grind, they will continue to underachieve.”

  Ted Mouths Off: Handicapping the conference semifinals

• “Next they underachieve at GCSE, failing to go in such large numbers to university; when they do, they are less likely to gain a 2: 1 or a first.”

  The Guardian: Britain's divided schools: a disturbing portrait of inequality

• “But in tomorrow's report, the story of ethnicity is a complicated one – in which poor black boys underachieve, as do those from Irish Traveller families, but poor Chinese girls overachieve; Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities see different outcomes to Indian ones; and there is a growing group of mixed race children who in themselves have complex outcomes.”

  The Guardian: Britain's divided schools: a disturbing portrait of inequality

• “Mr. Obama may be counting on Republicans not to underachieve but to overreach.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Republicans Won Bigger Than You Think

• “Even today, the economy looks like it will underachieve -- not unexpectedly following such a serious financial crisis.”

  Robert Teitelman: Prediction in an Age of Uncertainty

• “The economy would underachieve for several years, declared the Famous Strategist.”

  Robert Teitelman: Prediction in an Age of Uncertainty

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