Since ballplayers are not pure commodities--service time counts as much as past performance in the league's salary structure--finding those solid contributors for little money can be the difference between a decent team and a champion.

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Nearly three quarters of both groups cited trust as the most important characteristic of a financial adviser, but the big discrepancies were in performance and cost-per-service.

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"They have to do that in order to preserve the integrity and the performance of their walkie-talkie service, " says Lin.

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Some analysts have said that Airbus should push back the A350 program indefinitely to ensure it can at least squeeze a better performance out of its A330, a currently-in-service 295-seater that was built to compete with Boeing's 767.

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Alaska Airlines landed more than nine out of ten flights on-time in February, according to global flight and airport information service provider FlightStats, which tracks the performance of over 150, 000 flights per day from hundreds of airlines worldwide.

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Companies use salaries and raises to retain their high performers, but measuring performance itself is difficult, especially in fields that defy simple metrics like widgets built or customer-service calls answered.

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"Whilst the service has made significant strides in reducing burglaries and vehicle crime by concentrating its efforts on these government-led performance indicators, it could be argued that such targets have detracted attention away from traditional patrolling, " he said.

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