Naturally, teams invest salaries in their players with the expectation those players will contribute toward growing revenue as performance on the field draws more fans toward buying tickets, tuning in on television and grabbing up team merchandise.
In March 2009, then finance minister Nigel Dodds ordered a review amid growing concern over its performance.
They once again did far better locally than they are doing nationally, and the gap between their local and national performance is growing.
We are seeing a growing interest in high performance event trading.
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Initial product developments will commence concurrently on gaming and home theater headphones, as well as, communication and hearing health devices where the combination of proprietary technologies is anticipated to create a new standard of performance in this growing market.
Mourinho said his team had given the "perfect performance" but was growing concerned after they had wasted several excellent chances.
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Facing growing competition and shorter-term performance pressures from shareholders, managers resorted to waves of restructuring, personnel reductions, and relocation to lower-cost regions, while leveraging balance sheets to return capital to investors.
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The report - part of the King's Fund quarterly update on NHS performance - also found a growing number of finance directors were concerned about budgets.
The new platform brings Intel's classic product strengths to this fast-growing smartphone market segment, including impressive performance for quick Web browsing, and a great multimedia and Android1 applications experience.
MusclePharm is in a very fast growing niche of specialized supplements promoting high performance as well as healthy living while Schiff is in a more slow growth traditional vitamin market.
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NetApp, the third largest vendor of external data storage systems in the world after EMC and IBM, said the acquisition will help it win business in the rapidly growing bandwidth intensive video and high-performance computing markets.
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There is a growing effort around the world to develop better performance measures for charities that might help.
Cooper is strongly placed to leverage the growing demand for replacement tires in the high performance and ultra-high performance categories.
For Russia to achieve similar performance in the midst of a growing world economy and high oil prices would be nothing short of shocking.
Solid state storage has become a permanent part of the storage hierarchy, improving the overall performance and reducing energy use in a growing number of storage-intensive applications and systems.
For instance, at a time when our population is growing and changing, NCLB demands that schools consider the performance of student groups that may otherwise be left behind.
To turn challenges into opportunities, the new generation of leaders will need to address underlying realities of the big shift that include growing uncertainty, rising pressure and the need for sustained performance improvement.
To help things along, a growing number of software companies are building social platforms to boost performance.
Suleman believes that Achievers is growing fast because employee rewards and recognition software helps companies boost employee performance.
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The natural gas pipelines business put up a strong performance in 2012, with net income from the division growing by nearly 40% last year thanks to these acquisitions.
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Alcatel-Lucent's lightRadio portfolio of products, reduce the costs, power-consumption and size of LTE network elements, and help operators meet growing global demand for mobile video and data with increased speeds and performance.
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Runners and cyclists of all levels will now be able to better track, analyze and improve their performance by wirelessly sending sensor data to one of the growing number of Bluetooth v4.0-enabled smartphones or tablets on the market.
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The entry-level quad-core chipsets will help Qualcomm address the growing demand for low-end phones that can offer higher levels of performance.
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That is why despite a global slowdown and poorer-than-expected performance at the midpoint of 1995, Asian economies are still growing at enviable rates.
And how do we measure performance across our kaleidoscopic portfolio comprised of hundreds of small and growing agricultural businesses producing more than a dozen different crops across more than 30 countries in Africa and Latin America?
Our business performance over the next few years will be driven by our rapidly growing home technology business.
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The region's economy is growing at 3%, not a spectacular rate but higher than the dismal performance of the 1980s.
Hbasecon highlights the growing importance of the open-source community as leaders in expanding the pure performance and capability as the big data market rapidly expands.
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