Only the few vehicles equipped with side air bags designed to provide head protection performed acceptably in the initial tests.

Mr. O'Neill said none of the nine tested without air bags performed acceptably and all involved serious head injuries to at least one occupant.

On balance, they performed acceptably, in the proportion of seven worthy ministers to three rectors of Wrentham.

Walton said those three will be the starters when the season begins if they perform acceptably during the remaining three exhibition games.

But for most uses, he said, poppet valves perform acceptably at a reasonable cost.

Though slow to boot up, such an array would perform acceptably in a bank teller application.

Williams performed acceptably, but Kinard didn't play well enough to be protected on Plan B and signed with the Houston Oilers.

Program officials are confident that the design is stable and will perform acceptably when at least 90 percent of engineering drawings are complete.

The Germans reported that unloaded, the Jeep performed acceptably.

It would be unethical to reward incompetence when others perform acceptably.