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Most of the teams are really starting to grasp the concept of performance on demand rather than just showing up. I hope Canadians understand this is about performance. It's about carrying the Canadian flag on a bigger playing field and not just the symbolic carrying of the flag in the opening ceremony.

Most of the things we learned were internally. Who will you count on, also players basically that we had to move around whether it be for not being consistent enough in their performance or the ability to get along with everyone.

She made one of her productions, 'Electra,' into an off-Broadway performance and it was so difficult for her, she made so many mistakes. It led her to think it was not right to send theater students out in the world unprepared.

She really played hard against McNary and I think we might have surprised ourselves with our performance. It was a big game for me personally, since I went to McNary it was great to come away with a win.

She really went for it and that was great because it gave a certain terror to my performance. She was incredibly vivid.

Magnificent. He's been magnificent all season. There is a door open now for the World Cup and I hope he's on it because of his performance here, not only tonight, but throughout his time here has been tremendous.

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Maintaining optimal performance of enterprise applications has become a business-critical initiative for today's enterprises. Comprehensive application performance management solutions, like Symantec i3 7.5, help organizations improve business efficiency and mitigate costs by quickly identifying and resolving potential bottlenecks within an application infrastructure.

Maintaining strong fiscal performance combined with balanced investments provides a catalyst for the private sector to continue to grow.

Scott Young is a returning veteran who knows the organization and what the coach expects, ... He adds speed and will contribute valuable time on the power play. Scott's level of performance was always very consistent during his time here in St. Louis, when he enjoyed some of his best years.

Shares in the dairy sector have performed well this year due to great expectations in the industry and the overall good performance of the stock market.

Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.

Solid performance across our products and regions drove record revenue for the company, excellent license growth and strong operating margin.

Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment.

So far, the testing is going very well. The performance has been good, and fuel mileage has been comparable to the 2002 engines.

Silicon vendors are answering the growing security requirements of today's embedded devices with specialized encryption hardware. Our Nucleus Cipher Accelerator plug-in is designed to fully utilize this hardware in order to maximize their performance for the embedded application and at the same time offer cost savings-a major benefit to our customers.

September comparable sales were on plan, with strength in home appliances and electronics partially offsetting slow fall apparel results due to unseasonably warm weather. Other categories showing strong performance included home decor, outdoor sporting goods, jewelry, stationery, cosmetics and fragrances, cameras and accessories, consumables, seasonal items and pharmaceuticals.

Sean Doolittle absolutely set the tone for that game with his performance on the mound on just four days rest. He set the tone for the weekend and fortunately, Casey came in there in the ninth and we found a way to win at the end.

Olivia Mauro did a really nice job coming in as relief and containing them. That's the kind of performance we're looking for from our pitching staff.

She threw a rise ball past us all night long. The most dominating performance by anybody against us this year.

She travelled well for a long way and at least it was a better performance than last time. Provided she is okay, the Matron Stakes will be next for her.

She's such a wonderful administrator. We cannot locate any deficiencies in her performance whatsoever. We think she's just a combination of leadership skills, educational expertise, vision, passion and hard work. She's got it all.

She started talking, and the audience didn't breathe until the performance was over.

She stays cool. She pulls out the big performance on the big day.

She was excited with her performance as this was really the first time she pushed herself this season. She knows she has the opportunity to place highly in the state based upon her current fitness.

She was just awesome, simply awesome. She's an amazing player and her performance in the second quarter was incredibly impressive.

She was a very devout teacher. There was a fanaticism about her in terms of the quality of a performance she sought from her students, and about how they thought about the music they played.

She was phenomenal. Beth felt like we needed a high performance tonight, and she gave it to us.

She was pretty productive. We expect this kind of performance out of her. Some days are better than others, but she has a pretty good scoring average right now.

The price of oil is to the free market system like mud wrestling is to the performance arts,

We were caught off guard a little. We were disappointed with our defensive performance in the first half. You can't always tell how fast a team is on tape.

We might buy a little of the fund in personal accounts before we have those interviews. That way we track the performance and see how it's behaved in different market phases.

Top performance in both depends on two key elements: maximizing potential and overcoming the barriers to achieving goals.

The best kind of performance review is no performance review

I hate playing a team three times in the same year. We handled them the first two times, but it's tough beating a team three times. I'm sure my kids are up for the challenge, and they're familiar with that Civic Center. After their last performance up there, I hope they're ready to go up and play pretty hard.

I have been and continue to be skeptical that they have the right people in place to drive performance there.

I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.

Kerry brings broad international experience and high performance standards from one of the most respected companies in the world.

I was always anxious that my fees were egregious and that I had to have the best performance in the world to justify them.

I was in the room with a great actress who had no experience with Cherry?s performance ... and we just started working together from scratch.

Harry Potter' is clearly dominating the business. It's the movie that everybody hoped it would be. The box-office performance is living up to, and maybe at this point, exceeding expectations.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport continually strives to offer state-of-the art facilities that maximize our customer convenience as well as the efficiency of our operations personnel, and ensuring comprehensive wireless coverage is certainly part of that effort. LGC Wireless had a system with the flexibility, scalability, and performance to support all of our wireless traffic today, and to allow for cost-effective integration of new services and applications in the future.

I wouldn't say that he has been demoted. The way I'd rather say it is that Sage Rosenfels has earned, through his efforts and consistency and performance through this preseason, the opportunity to compete for the number two position, and he's been put in a position to do that. I don't think anybody has been demoted.

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for ""bliss."" It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of rite or ceremony appertaining to a good understanding; but the manner of its performance is unknown to this lexicographer.

Knight's performance will entertain the entire family. It may even inspire a few budding musicians to practice more.

Kevin left the company at my request because I lost confidence in his personal credibility, ... His departure is not related to business performance and does not constitute a change in credit strategy.

Key to American's and the broader sector's future performance will be the industry's ability to raise prices and offset higher fuel costs, which is a function of capacity, in our view.

Key trends will be shifts to dual-core processors for PCs, and multi-core processors for servers, to increase performance while maintaining or decreasing chip power consumption. ASPs for all platforms have increased with the economic recovery and will continue to increase with these shifts before price degradation begins.

I would say it was a bad game after doing well in India and such a performance can not be a winning one especially after a team misses as many as eight scoring chances.

Half of his pay is dependent on the performance of the company, so that looks pretty reasonable relative to the pay of other CEOs at big companies. It probably doesn't look reasonable to the guy who just got laid off.

has been driven by increased demand for our growing lineup of new game themes, strong gaming operations performance and solid market share growth by our major international subsidiaries.

There are still decent prospects within emerging markets. We wouldn't advocate getting out of them completely. We just don't think you're going to see the same kind of performance you've seen coming out of them in the past five years.

There are teams that receive more money from central baseball -- between the national television contract and revenue sharing -- than what their payroll is. That's before they sell a ticket or a hot dog or a beer or a parking space. There's a provision in the agreement that says revenue-sharing funds are to be used to improve the quality of a team's performance on the field, so we'll have to take a hard look at that.

This was our best performance by far. We raised our game and made so many tackles without missing half as many as in previous matches. Mentally we were prepared for the Crusaders and now we must just keep on doing the job. That will entail keeping our confidence up and sticking to our guns and our game-plan by hanging onto the ball and hopefully drawing first blood and not slipping thereafter.

This was our best performance when you also consider it came after the Bradford win. It's a fantastic win in its own right - but doubled up with Bradford makes it even more special. It was a good effort here and I'm convinced there is more to come from us.

This was our second huge character-building performance in a row. Comebacks don't get much better than this.

He is the horse. He's in front. There's no performance anybody has seen yet that rivals what he's done.

He just didn't have it. It was not a normal performance for him.

Idaho's economic performance continues to rank with the best in the nation. Most signs suggest solid growth will remain on track in the New Year.

I'd characterize third-quarter stock performance as disappointing and event-driven, although it was understandable why the market reaction was what it was,

I could sit up here and say it was to try to justify the performance, but I don't think that was the case. We just weren't very good for awhile.

I don't believe I experience performance anxiety, maybe because I am used to it.

Given that, and given the challenges there are in our core business over the half year, the performance and the result are very encouraging.

Given that rising US interest rates underpinned the greenback's stellar performance in 2005, dollar bulls' disappointment in the wake of these minutes is inevitable.

Given the expected efficiencies of the new processing floor at Dakota City and the anticipated improvements in capacity utilization, we believe this is the right strategic decision. The consolidation will enhance the performance of our beef business, both now during this time of challenging market conditions and later when these conditions improve.

Given the increasing global importance of retirement issues and the rethinking of health care benefits and executive compensation, we expect our solid performance to continue in fiscal 2006.

Given the license revenue performance and our view that the company is moving in the right direction, we would be buying shares on weakness today.

Given the management changes and other distractions the firm has haced over the past nine months, this impressive performance is a testament to the talent and commitment of our people and the fundamental strength of our franchise,

Given the media's focus on Katrina's destruction and on government's poor performance in the hurricane's aftermath, it's not surprising that confidence would fall. But, with aid now flowing and fatalities fewer than expected, that could reverse.

Given fears of weakening consumer electronics sales, ... a strong sales performance is very creditable in these market conditions.

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

Growth in real gross domestic product amounted to 4.5 percent in 2004, and preliminary anecdotal evidence suggests that this performance may have been exceeded somewhat in 2005.

Great win for our kids. Our pitching once again was stellar. The performance of our pitching and defense has set the pace for us so far in the tournament.

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.

I am really excited to see this kind of performance by both girls. It shows that they are running faster as a pair and it is only going to make them both faster.

I am saying 40% of people in sports are still using performance (enhancing drugs). I think that based on past experiences I have had. It is not only track and field, there are soccer players, football players, basketball players, cyclists and you would be surprised that some of the great players are doing stuff.

I am so confident, in fact that I have asked the Compensation Committee of our board to pay my cash incentive bonus in GE performance shares for 2005.

I am really pleased with Corey's performance. She did what she needed to do to get ready for next week. The pressure was off of her today and she could just focus on doing the dives that she was capable of without any consequence. That was a big thing in helping her be consistent today. She also added to her confidence heading into the NCAA Championships to be the 3-meter champion from this zone.

I am really pleased with the season this year. I feel I have established better credit to my name and feel I am more consistent. My hamstring was a little bit tight about 20 meters to the finishing line, but it was a good race, I think my performance was good, the competition was great.

I am satisfied after my performance in India-Sri Lanka series and expecting to repeat same in Pakistan.

I am satisfied with my performance in the last 20 months. I have no regrets for losing power. Power may come and go.

I can't say anything bad about his performance. Justin threw an incredible game and their pitcher did, too. When both throw that well, it comes down to the little things. And we missed a couple of opportunities.

I can't say anything more about Jeff than what his performance says. He shined in every event he was in.

I can't say enough about our leaders and their performance after some tough games in Alabama.

I did not expect that type of performance from us.

If people like Ms. Finley and other performance artists who do things with vegetables that you and I would find to be ... unusual, they can go and find patrons and supporters in the marketplace.

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

Fresno played well, we laid an egg, and it was an unacceptable performance. We have to play better.

Friday's trade data allowed the market to focus on the cyclical performance of the U.S. economy, ... It doesn't appear that the yield difference will shift in favor of the euro any time soon.

For sure it was a better performance on offense. We need to take it from there, ... We've all been in these kind of predicaments before. We've been very good on the road this year; we have to go and win a game. You take the positive, and you go.

Freedom Rings has been closely analyzing the performance of its stores in the Philadelphia area over the past several months. After consultation with its creditors, it has been determined that closing the remaining four stores is the best way to maximize value.

For years, winning Key West has been one of the greatest achievements in U.S. sailing. Now the competition at Miami Race Week is just as stiff in several one-design classes. Winning the Acura Grand Prix Trophy shows a tremendous level of excellence. To put forth a consistent performance at two major regattas is not an easy feat.

Four or five times during a performance of this piece, it is almost impossible to control oneself. I mean for the audience and for the performers. It is such a dramatic and moving piece.

Frankly, it was in response to a horrendous performance in Spokane. That needed attention.

Fundamentally, we think AMD will have the performance advantage through most of this year. But later in the year and into 2007 it will start to get interesting as Intel tries to go head-to-head with AMD again.

Funds are still keen, with the end of the month likely to bring even more money to commodities due to the good performance they've had during January. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy at the moment.

Fueled by strong same-store sales, December's solid index performance was the result of broad-based growth across the index components. Three out of five restaurant operators reported a same-store sales gain in December -- the strongest level in 12 months. In addition, the Expectations Index posted its fourth consecutive monthly increase, which points toward growth in sales, staffing levels and capital expenditures during the next several months.

Fujitsu is the leader in 3D graphics display technology for vehicle navigation systems worldwide, with more than 30 percent of the global market. With the new MB86276 2D GDC, we are expanding our controller line to meet the specific price and performance benchmarks of North American vehicle manufacturers. This version meets the industry's requirements for navigation systems appropriate for mid-range cars and trucks in the U.S. and Canada.

For years I would turn to James Joyce's short story collection, The Dubliners, in the Performance of Fiction course I teach at Northwestern University,

For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.