But the past year has seen better performance across Middle America.
This comes in response to complaints from educators that No Child Left Behind has demanded better performance from low-income kids, without providing the resources to achieve that goal.
His simple indexing philosophy has led to better performance with less risk compared to the vast majority of investors who are trying to beat the markets, including financial advisors and large institutions such as endowments and pension funds.
And the idea that foundation status should be a reward for quality and thus a spur to better performance has been binned, because that might lead to some hospitals getting better than others.
"It has to be much better performance from me in order to try to win against the next opponent, because both of these guys are great quality players, " he said.
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Better credit performance has meant that impairment (bad loan) charges have continued to fall with continued low interest rates enabling the majority of customers to pay their mortgages and even reduce their credit exposures.
If you can avoid taking a big hit in one stock or one trade, your portfolio has a much better chance to show positive performance.
That is, the investor must either be convinced that the performance he has already received is adequate or that if he stays invested his dream of better performance may still materialize sometime in the future.
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He also said that Pfizer plans to manage poor performance better than it ever has.
Despite the negative performance, Peabody has fared better than a number of its peers in 2012, as seen in the chart below.
In fact, the company has only recently begun to better leverage its strong performance brand name in footwear, and this spring will try to make a mark in the bra business.
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Its relative strength line has been rising, and its price performance is better than 95% of stocks.
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The average margin on total sales will fall, but performance actually has improved and shareholders are better off because the company has earned a higher economic profit.
Technology innovation has allowed us to better understand buyers, influencers and the performance of our activities.
Project SHIELD's performance has allowed us to bring an even better experience with Dead Trigger 2, debuting first on Tegra 4 devices.
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Energy's strong performance has also helped to make the market look better.
Psychologist Albert Bandura of Stanford University has written extensively about the connection between positive thoughts and better sports performance, demonstrating that belief in oneself improves motor skills.
But now, after consulting with users all over the world, Bookeen has further revised its reader's looks and performance to better address the needs of a wider, more demanding audience.
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"I've been getting better and better since the new boss has come in and this was probably my best performance, " said Lennon.
Ryanair has increased its profit forecast for the full year after a better-than-expected performance in the last three months of 2012.
The industry has promised to do several things, including better manage chronic diseases, streamline claims processing, aggregate performance data and implement other efficiency measures.
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Reebok-CCM wants to set the record straight on the performance of competing helmets and says that it has at least one helmet that performs significantly better at reducing rotational acceleration than the RE-AKT.
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"When we can stress the personal identity of people, and let them bring more of themselves at work, they are more satisfied with their job and have better performance, " says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard Business School who has studied onboarding.
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Deckers has shown profit growth of 29% or more in each of the past three quarters, with earnings performance better than 98% of stocks.
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Not only is America hurting relatively less now, its economic performance in the prior 18 years--from 1990 to 2007--has also been visibly better than everybody else's.
On the whole, Boeing posted better-than-expected numbers in Q2 on strong core operating performance and, as a result, has also raised earnings per share outlook for 2012.
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They're looking for, of course, their performance in part, but I think the advantage we feel he has is that his policies are ultimately better for the American people.
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