There is an emphasis now on developing high-performance schools, and part of that will be to measure how changes in indoor air quality improve the performance of children. By studying how emissions from normal furnishings affect children performing classroom tasks, you can estimate what might happen if you reduce the emissions.
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What a good offensive performance and a very poor defensive performance. I thought we were really kind of unconcerned on the defensive end, and that's not like our team at all.
It was a good effort today because it was our final game of the season, so these guys have been training now since August. I think we are all happy that the season is over, but it was good fun today. Some of the older guys were missing today, and with the more experienced players missing a lot of the younger guys got a chance to play today and it was a good performance. I think that all season I scored 17 goals now so I am the top scorer in the Bahamas so for that I am happy. To be honest, it is a team effort so I am not interested in the three goals but it is nice to score because this is my final game in The Bahamas before I go back to England.
They are a unique blend of players who have been able to achieve a high level of performance over a long period of time.
The key problems existing in the current economic performance are a weak agricultural base, insufficient staying power for grain production and (lack of) increase in rural household income.
Diego Garcia's performance was very good because he struck trouble.
I fully expect that we will regroup and be ready to play against Everett. We don't have the luxury of having guys who can score even when they are having an average performance. We seem to have to work hard for every goal.
They sit down beside somebody who can play their part, somebody who is very interested in making a great musical performance, and then you bring in a great clinician and there's just a lot of good vibes.
This is their big push, safety. His idea is not a performance issue. This is not trying to do anything to help one manufacturer versus another. This is, hey, we've got to do this before we hurt the guys that are going out there and trying to put on a good show for the race fans out there.
Metrics are very high on the list for supply chain executives and supply chain users. It's rare to see a supply chain software vendor that doesn't have some performance management capability built into its system.
However, it was agreed that any further consideration of these alternatives needed to be informed by the performance of the non-food brands through the all-important Christmas period and the balance of the 2003 financial year,
I haven't seen a performance like his in some time. There is really no way to defend him.
We continue to experience normal operation, ... Our operational performance is consistent with that of other days this month.
We're a team that our work ethic has to be 100 percent, our concentration has to be 100 percent and our desperation has to be 100 percent. At the moment that we slip away a little bit, we are going to be in real trouble. (Saturday) all the things I just mentioned were not there at all and it was embarrassing. An embarrassing performance. That's all I have to say.
We won and are on top now, that's positive but we have to improve our performance,
Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.
There's clearly an assumption that the Opera House principally presents opera. Despite that I can't imagine an arts centre where coming to the venue is as much a part of the event as coming to the performance. We're a community asset.
Brian has had some spectacular moments for us. And our last 10 games, Rich has been pretty effective for us. They're important cogs in our performance.
My first and most important goal is to accelerate gains in student performance. We have to roll up our sleeves. We have to redouble our efforts.
Whether for entertainment, business or personal communications, video is becoming a crucial application for our customers, and distance learning and video conferencing are natural extensions of our expertise in transporting video as part of the triple play to cable subscribers. We've built our video transport market leadership on carrier-grade optical Ethernet platforms that ensure reliability, performance and manageability - because best-effort is not good enough in the video world.
I wouldn't say this was our best performance, but it's right up there. They're capable of playing this way it's just a matter of being consistent.
Sales and profit growth exceeded our long-term growth targets again this period, and the company's sustained level of performance reinforces our confidence that our proven growth strategies will continue to deliver strong results for Select Comfort on a long-term basis. Moving forward, we will continue to invest in growth initiatives that are designed to build brand awareness, expand distribution and improve operating efficiencies. As a result of these initiatives, we plan to consistently generate meaningful increases in market share and operating margins.
This was an experiment - expanding the band and trying to make the music communicate in a different sort of way. Maybe that part of it didn't happen. But his performance is so stunning when you watch what he is actually doing. When we cut the film together in the present form, in the correct order, better angles, and you really focus on Jimi, ... you see what he is doing. He's conducting the orchestra. He's playing lead and rhythm at the same time. He's smoking a cigarette. He's doing five things at once. It's incredible.
We anticipated having performance leadership in Whitefield at that time or 2007. We had an opportunity to improve that performance advantage, i.e., deliver even more performance, and we took it.
If this is confirmed, it will reinforce our suspicion that the December performance was inflated by many consumers opening their wallets to treat their families and themselves at Christmas having held back their spending over much of 2005.
I think of my four years here, that was my worst performance. By far. I know that.
I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.
Sometimes with guys like him and Burroughs, there's much more pressure, being in the organization that spent a lot of money on them and made them No. 1 draft picks. If the performance isn't there, it becomes tough mentally for them.
Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.
The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.
It appears as if every company doing business in the Southeast will jump on the Hurricane Frances, Charley and Tropical Storm Gaston bandwagons for their weaker third-quarter performance,
The bottom line is whether we were prepared and ready to play when they threw the ball up. It didn't appear that way to me, and I think that's a responsibility that when people come to the arena and pay their hard-earned cash to watch you perform, then you owe them a performance. And that's effort. And damn if we gave effort (Monday night).
Megahertz has been distorted as a proxy for performance and has been devalued in terms of a measure of performance.
Really they're companies with consistent price performance, ... In other words, it's better than the SP and consistent earnings performance.
At that point, music was very organic. It wasn't about synthesizing sounds or creating a computer. It was about storytelling and interpretation and performance. There was a lot of that kind of coaching going on.
Nationally, it is clear that some housing markets have moderated from the over-heated and, in some cases, speculative pace of growth of the past few years. In our view, this tempering of demand to more sustainable long-term levels is a healthy trend for our company and the industry. There are signs of cooling in the hottest markets on both coasts and a shift in investor activity from buying to selling, resulting in less demand and increased supply in certain markets. Once these factors work their way through current housing supplies, however, we expect the market to move to a new equilibrium which will provide a platform for continuing and sustainable growth by KB Home. With this outlook and our healthy first-quarter performance, we feel confident in maintaining our earnings estimate of 11.25 per diluted share for 2006.