In fact, were the Senate and the full Congress to go along with this recommendation, the consequences would likely be directly at odds with congressionally mandated trends toward consolidation, streamlining and wherever possible "joint" performance of Defense Department activities.
Not surprisingly, the countries are wealthy and among the world's greenest as well, according to the Environmental Performance Index, a joint product of Columbia University and Yale University, which measures performance against 25 indicators, such as measures of air pollution, water supply or use of natural resources.
In addition to on-time performance, the joint project looks at three other categories: rate of consumer complaints, mishandled bags and denied boarding performance.
Riverbed and Akamai this morning announced a joint project to speed up the performance of cloud-based software-as-a-service applications.
While asset sales helped too, the company highlighted the performance of its 50% joint venture Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, which they book under downstream.
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Previous hearings, including a joint congressional probe, have focused on the performance of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement services, particularly the CIA and the FBI.
Although GE currently makes engines for several U.S. fighters, the future of the high-performance military engine business is the F-35 joint strike fighter, which will replace most of the tactical aircraft in the joint fleet over the next 30 years.
South West Trains said it had launched a joint 10-point plan with Network Rail to tackle the drop in performance and fall in customer satisfaction in response to the survey.
In 1986 an external examiner for the Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) - the Welsh examinations board - stopped a performance in which a naked pupil simulated a sex act.
This ranking is based on a performance measurement of the "K computer(1), " currently under their joint development.
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Councillors sitting on joint fire and rescue boards, it added, had not provided a strong lead in scrutinising performance or in helping to drive change, engagement with local communities was "patchy".
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