These statements are likely to address matters such as the company's future financial condition and performance (including earnings per share, profitability, liquidity, cash flows, debt levels, market share growth and other sales information, inventory levels and capital expenditures), its cost reduction initiatives and plans for store closings, and the expansion of product categories, including eBook content and eReaders.

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The firm has also committed to improvements to station condition and operational performance.

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They'll look at the brakes and performance of the trains, the condition of the tracks, crew performance and train signal information, among other things.

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Continue to develop appropriate targets and clearly predictable incentives for Railtrack to improve its performance on punctuality, cancellations and track condition.

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In improving the human condition, Bill Gates wrote in his 2013 Annual Letter of how quantifying goals and measuring performance are increasingly necessary in eradicating disease.

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He has created a new Nutrition division that brings together clinical nutrition (food for people with diabetes or a heart condition), performance nutrition (food that prevents athletes in endurance sports from keeling over) and baby food.

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