noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a concert performance
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She gave a number of concert performances in Berlin.
a performance rating
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They received different pay increases even though their performance ratings were the same.
academic performance
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Personal problems may affect a student’s academic performance.
command performance
creditable performance
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The team produced a creditable performance .
debut match/performance etc
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He scored in his debut match for the club.
economic performance (= how well a company, country, or economy is doing )
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How do you explain this poor economic performance over the last few years?
gala dinner/performance/night etc
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the Society’s Gala Dinner
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a charity gala evening
give a performance/display
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They gave one of their best performances to date.
live...performance
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The band will be giving a live concert performance next week.
performance art
repeat performance (= have the same thing happen again )
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It was a terrible journey – I hope we don’t have a repeat performance on the way home.
sales performance (= how much a company sells )
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There has been an encouraging improvement in sales performance.
stellar performance
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McKellen gave a stellar performance .
superior performance
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This boat meets the needs of serious yachtsmen who demand superior performance.
virtuoso performance
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a virtuoso performance
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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But there are no convincing reasons for believing that this would have a beneficial effect on economic performance .
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The downside of such excellent economic performance is that virtually any alternative scenario will represent a deterioration.
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The financial world has been disdainful of his economic performance partly because it has concentrated on the interests of the poor.
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But weak economic performance , supporters said, is precisely why Kim has pushed so hard to revise the labor law.
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Bloody-mindedness on all sides soon began to show in the economic performance of the region.
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There is increasing evidence that shortcomings in the industrial building stock are an obstacle to better national economic performance .
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According to the state's traffic planning department, traffic calming had improved the economic performance of cities like Dusseldorf.
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Regulated, socialised economies trample on human dignity, despoil the natural environment and depress economic performance .
financial
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The most telling indicator of Railfreight's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance .
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Positive results were immediately forthcoming in the forms of short-term financial performance and higher compensation.
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This implies an oscillating financial performance for the industry as a whole.
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Even among the biggest and best known firms, financial performance is becoming more important in separating sheep from goats.
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Otherwise, the partners would be profiled in terms of their key characteristics, financial performance and likely valuation.
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It is a difficult choice to make for what is the more admirable about Essex - their financial or cricketing performance .
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The net result is that our overall financial performance has improved from a fairly mediocre position.
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The financial performances of these firms is then compared with an otherwise matched sample of small firms.
good
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Jaguar produced their best performance of the season, with Eddie Irvine and Pedro de la Rosa finishing seventh and eighth respectively.
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They have come to recognize the perils of homogeneity; they believe in better performance through an altered internal chemistry.
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She tells me that unless you are in a state of tension you don't give your best performance .
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For gamers, there's little doubt that upgrading the video card ranks right up there in the best upgrades for performance .
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It would enable better planning and performance .
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It will be better than current performance , but not necessarily as challenging as the long-term goal of world-class performance.
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The company has also upgraded its Macintosh server to version 4.0, claiming better performance .
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Public entrepreneurs know that when institutions are funded according to inputs, they have little reason to strive for better performance .
high
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Auspex says it will upgrade the box to higher performance Sparc Mbus modules over time.
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They act as a catalyst for a company and help it to focus on a higher level of performance .
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All single-engine, high performance , military aircraft fly with a degree of inherent risk.
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What, exactly, are these mythical fears that so regularly block the path to high performance ?
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They expect high levels of performance .
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It is when we get into the high performance area that the ratio of cross-section to strength comes into play.
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The organisational structure most conducive to high performance depends on whether the environment is stable and simple, or changing and complex.
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He describes how the Digital Equipment Corporation at Ayr have pursued quality and flexibility by introducing high performance , self-managing work teams.
live
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The percentage of the population which attends live performances of music more than very occasionally is very small.
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His embrace of recorded music over live performances would eventually lead to a shift in the role of records on radio.
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For most, it was their first opportunity to see a live orchestral performance .
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Maybe there is room to use this power of attraction to create a new method of live rock performance .
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From this unique contraption, Hart will oversee the live performances .
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Only later did anyone realise that he was due to sing a live solo performance for the station.
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These broadcasts don't need to be records because live performances on local radio can also count.
overall
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This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.
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Significant gaps continue in the overall performance of girls, despite the narrowing of the gender gap in verbal and mathematical performance.
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Despite the difference in overall level of performance the relationship between risk and recognition performance in the two studies was remarkably similar.
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The faith in regularities applies only to overall performances and to long run outcomes in human collective life.
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The question is, does this added complexity and the assumption on which it is based add anything to the overall performance ?
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The overall performance of the system is then about forty to fifty watts per square meter, averaged over day and night.
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Only time will tell if this is a serious effort at improving both public sector accountability and overall performance .
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Perry and Rubin scored the highest grades for overall performance .
poor
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Britain's poor economic performance has been the dominant theme of political debate and economic discourse since the 1950s.
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About the Families Investigators have long linked unfavorable family situations with poor academic performance .
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Even when monitoring can be done effectively, disciplining employees for poor performance is itself costly.
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Tony Armstrong, director of corporate affairs at Northern Rock, defended the company's poor performance .
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Poverty depressed the black college-attendance rate, but so did low high school graduation rates and poor performance on standardized tests.
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The kind of symptoms; sluggish cars and poor performance .
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Some studies suggest that young people who work too much have poorer academic performance .
specific
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Under a corporately developed policy, each business is accountable for its specific performance targets.
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Indeed, without specific performance consequences, most of us quickly grow cynical.
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The basic combination of attitude and power produces a specific performance .
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You can not learn team performance without being part of a team that holds itself mutually accountable for achieving specific performance goals.
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Where damages are clearly not an adequate remedy, an order for specific performance may be granted.
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Use both / and goals that translate across all four levels from purpose to specific performance .
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It is open for most of the year, but you need to book well in advance for any specific performance .
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No one demanded that people commit to specific performance challenges requiring them to use what they had supposedly learned.
strong
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This point is well demonstrated by the strong performance of and the recently acquired business.
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Most are still expecting strong performance of the broader markets, but at a more manageable pace.
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The chemicals giant's chairman Charles Miller Smith said the strong performance showed its restructuring programme was working.
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Format: Varied selections, strong on performance broadcasts.
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Guinness, reflecting its strong profits performance , jumped 25p to 597p.
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Another government study offered further signs the strong economic performance will continue.
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There were strong performances in some of our key business sectors, although theses were offset by poor results elsewhere.
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The foodequipment business had a profit margin of 7. 1 % in 1994, with a strong performance from Hobart.
■ NOUN
art
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A programme of performance art to be announced with this exhibition.
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The most successful of the human oddities, Taylor says, were those who could present their deformities as performance art .
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Garner knows about the challenge of performance art .
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No matter how he strutted and screamed, the end result was more like watching performance art than hearing a concert.
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Some performance art does contain gratuitous violence.
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The materials of Fluxus artists were mainly ephemeral or paper-based, or centred on performance art , presenting problems for exhibition organisers.
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The second is intensely combative performance art , and just about self-financing.
evening
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The audience were in their seats for the first of the two evening performances .
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Tickets are $ 10 to $ 32 for the evening performances and $ 6 to $ 20 for the matinee.
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Once he did as the Professor had hoped he might do, and gave Paul a ticket for an evening performance .
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The evening performance - a Mozart Symphony - didn't start until seven and it would mean a late return home.
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The read-through finished at midday to give St Ives a rest before the evening performance of Caesar and Cleopatra.
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It gave us a little time together before she dashed off for the evening performance .
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The production lasted well over three hours, and then it was soon time to get ready for the evening performance .
indicator
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Yet traditional performance indicators provide little to guide investment in knowledge and learning.
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Further information was obtained from performance indicators from the Department of Health.
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The drive towards numerical and managerial performance indicators has already been mentioned.
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The performance indicators which are produced consist mainly of data on payment, which makes useful analysis difficult.
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Attendance rates and truancy levels as performance indicators for schools are only part of the story.
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We examine performance indicators in more detail in later chapters.
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The second innovation was the development of performance indicators .
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Some LEAs have long collated information obtained from schools in such a way that the results might be described as performance indicators .
repeat
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Darlington beat Huddersfield 1-0 in the Rumbelows League Cup and a repeat performance would improve their chances of survival.
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Politicians did not relish a repeat performance of the humiliating defeat they had suffered over the suspension and repeal of the acts.
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My next problem was how to get back to the hotel before my stomach gave a repeat performance .
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A repeat performance if planned for 2039!
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His broadcast of 23 April was a shorter but equally powerful repeat performance of his address at the end of Barricades Week.
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But then there was the journey, with its repeat performance of doggy protests.
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Waterhole two, in January 1982, was to have been a repeat performance .
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Needless to say, I wasn't asked for a repeat performance !
■ VERB
affect
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So let us look at what factors appear to affect the performance of individuals in their jobs.
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The action occurs in real time, and damage shows on a vehicle and affects its performance .
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Fixed-interest securities would be immune at least to some of the difficulties that might affect companies' trading performance .
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At first the others joked about it, but their air of exclusivity began to affect team performance .
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Dictionaries differ widely in their style and content, and this has been shown to affect recognition performance .
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The pressure is usually transmitted to the available servicing personnel affecting their performance .
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However, too much or little anxiety will always affect any performance in a detrimental way.
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After all, the construction of one motor car may differ from another without affecting its performance .
assess
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So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989.
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Every year, he reviews the staff and then asks two aides to assess his performance .
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Voters are interested in assessing the performance of their elected representatives.
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In this chapter we analyse the nationalized industries, explain how they have been run, and assess their performance .
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In addition, as argued above, there are great difficulties in assessing the performance of public enterprises.
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The children could use a standard proforma to assess their own performance against the relevant parts of the attainment targets.
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Who assesses our performance , and how much store do we set by their judgement?
compare
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Train arrives at Euston seven minutes late - not bad compared with recent performances , but still late.
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Step two of the process is to compare your performance with that of your co-workers.
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They compared the performance of two patients on a lip-reading task and on a task which required analysis of facial expression.
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They compared performance in two conditions.
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It was interesting to compare the performance of my tourer bike and the mountain bikes we hired on these roads.
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Instead of using complicated measurements involving colour purity, resolution etc. to compare their performance I simply used each monitor for a day.
enhance
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It is continuous, since it is a long-term strategy to enhance individual performance in the context of institutional objectives.
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Along with the redesigned case, the L series has lots of new features to enhance performance .
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In truth, the most impressive thing about this performance car is the way it enhances the performance of its driver.
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Instead, they keep their fingers crossed and spend the money on hardware to enhance performance .
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However, it was once again observed that risk only enhances recognition performance in certain situations.
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He said: We have solid information that the use of drugs to enhance performance is really an epidemic.
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And if your car is fitted with a catalytic converter, Shell Advanced will help enhance the catalyst's performance .
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The company has also enhanced the performance of the Series 400 by 30% to 40%.
give
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She tells me that unless you are in a state of tension you don't give your best performance .
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It gives us the mini-mum performance we need to get off Mars but leaves much room for growth and improvement.
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Ge rard Giroudon gives a moving performance as Harpagon.
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So that, nomatterwhat they do, they are more or less giving the same performance each time.
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WinTach should give you more accurate performance figures.
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The response on both left and right was that he gave a lacklustre performance .
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The little information that is given on the performance of mature students is not very useful.
improve
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As a result it is often difficult to analyse the errors of a probabilistic system in an effort to improve its performance .
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Mounting a strong staff development component to help special education staff to improve their performance on the job. 5.
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Indeed most people wish to improve their own performance and are eager to do so.
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The power of feedback to motivate improved performance is well established.
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The new Transport Secretary, Stephen Byers, weighed in with a demand that the industry should improve its performance .
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And he will be expected to use that information to improve performance and to help his company attain its strategic goals.
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Advanced expert systems provide a means to significantly improve performance in each of these important areas.
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By contrast, total quality and continuous improvement concern themselves with improving performance in smaller chunks.
measure
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They measure the performance of their agencies, focusing not on inputs but on outcomes.
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Mental performance tests By now it might be wondered whether there is any satisfactory way to measure mental performance.
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A comparison of different kinds of rocket engines with each other requires some measure of their performance .
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The criteria against which to measure success are termed performance indicators.
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The managers eventually learned to cope with the ambiguity in measuring their performance .
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Results. Measure the performance outcomes that the new skills, behaviors, and working relationships are intended to produce.
monitor
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An independent regulatory body should monitor the performance of all operators.
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No longer, he said, will we monitor performance using the work standards.
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Non-government organisations monitor treaty performance and encourage participation in treaties to which they themselves can not adhere.
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Unless managers see the control process through to its conclusion, they are merely monitoring performance rather than exercising control.
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Building into such systems the ability to monitor their own performance and adapt appropriately.
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Such workers must be able to communicate orally and in writing, work in groups, and monitor their own performance .
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Regular reviews of progress will take place and students are asked to carefully monitor their own performance .
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And they lacked the information technology we have today to monitor the performance of contractors.
produce
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Jaguar produced their best performance of the season, with Eddie Irvine and Pedro de la Rosa finishing seventh and eighth respectively.
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That tendency, plus the high dividend yields, usually produces a strong performance .
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Nick Mallett produced a staggering performance .
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Last year's war in Kosovo produced a more coherent performance .
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Simply improving the performance of the pattern recognition module will not produce a recognition performance comparable to that of a human.
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The basic combination of attitude and power produces a specific performance .
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Further development of polyester-based material has produced even better performance .
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However, January did produce one legendary performance , on the rooftop of Apple, to the delight of passers-by.
relate
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The level of civic involvement in the 1970s is related to democratic institutional performance in the 1980s.
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He was released by the team in a move sources said was related more to performance than to salary cap considerations.
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To decide whether previous familiarity with a junction is related to recognition performance it is necessary to calculate new measures of recognition.
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B4., try to separate the personality difficulties from the ones directly relating to job performance .
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The importance of skill theory is that it relates human performance to systems concepts and to individual differences.
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As often as not this was fixed and not related to the performance of the company.
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The returns are related to performance , but that is not surprising these days.
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This included the publication of specific information relating to environmental performance and emissions data.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
benefit concert/performance/match
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Browne played a benefit concert at Zellerbach Hall on the UC-Berkeley campus Thursday night.
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He later played a benefit concert in aid of the protest.
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Last August, after leaving a rehearsal for the benefit performance, Hicks witnessed a stabbing and wound up being the suspect.
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Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match.
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This group also organized musicians to play benefit concerts for the campaign.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Have you ever heard a live performance of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony?
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It is the first performance of Berlioz's Requiem in this city in over 20 years.
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Its performance on mountain roads was impressive.
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Some companies link pay to performance .
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the performance of his official duties
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the disappointing performance of the bond market
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The evening performance will begin at 8:00 pm.
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The new program will better evaluate the performance of students and teachers.
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There are no tickets left for this evening's performance .
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There was a performance of "Gisele" in the San Diego State Open Air Theatre.
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This evening's performance begins at 8:00 pm.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the Lakers were up to the task, despite one of the Clippers' better recent performances.
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Investors respond to performance and we've not been in existence long enough yet.
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Only time will tell if this is a serious effort at improving both public sector accountability and overall performance .
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Quick, somebody book a local performance .
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Targets may be set for any parameter that can be measured as the project proceeds, such as cost, time and performance .
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The school has tried to use technology and writing across subjects to improve students' academic performance .
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Three criteria have been chosen, attempting to measure the most important attributes of company performance over the year.