In a statement, Southern said its Sussex coast performance had been "particularly poor", but that 90% of its trains had arrived on time over the past 12 months.

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Sounds good until we realize that some executives could still coast on the excellent performance of their colleagues.

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But he said the council was unhappy with the performance of the West Coast Mainline.

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The east coast was ten year old, ten year old, ten year old - sorry ten year old track, ten year old trains - and was really quite a modern railway network, and yet Chris Green and the team at Virgin Trains actually got the performance of the west coast ahead of GNER in the last six months running up to Hatfield.

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And to think: Exactly three weeks ago, in this very same building, Syracuse wrapped up its final Big East regular-season schedule before heading to the Atlantic Coast Conference with a bad-as-can-be performance in a lopsided loss to Georgetown.

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Her performance in previous assignments as commanding officer for recruit training at Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.

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The work had its East Coast premiere Wednesday night at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by its music director Gustavo Dudamel.

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The original Hawker 400XP was performance challenged at Aspen, which meant an early fuel stop was essential for reaching the East Coast.

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