The fact Ronaldo failed to appear during the shootout was entirely in keeping with a performance in which he struggled to exert much influence.
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Consequently, fund managers had a difficult time keeping up with the performance of the index.
Murnighan, whose work was cited last week in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, argues that most effective leaders delegate almost everything they do to staff, keeping themselves free to oversee performance and think big.
Keeping data in memory both speeds performance and can save power vs. accessing that data from HDDs.
An afterschool program, for example, can rack up good points for keeping down costs and improving student performance on standardized tests.
Prior's wretched match plumbed new depths, and the lack of confidence from his wicket-keeping errors transferred to a hesitant performance with the bat.
Their performance was more in keeping with their passionate second-half display at Soccer City rather than their nervous first 45 minutes, but they were unable to pose enough of a threat to trouble their superior opponents.
That rise is in keeping with a trend of strong performance lately from deals backed by private-equity shops, which buy companies with an eye toward revamping them, or by venture-capital firms, which tend to invest in startups.
Following recent problems at several big Swiss insurance companies, the commission will also take charge of the insurance sector, as well as keeping a tighter watch on the performance of audit firms, some of which it feels have been getting too close to their clients.
When he looked at the statements of work for the projects involved, he found that the account manager was miscategorizing other projects as the wrong type of work because he was told his performance would be evaluated on keeping the type of work in question at a high level.
Although not believing Patel's skill-set is right for the changing role of the company's CFO, Synesael noted Level 3's interest in keeping him on indicates its satisfaction with his performance over the last two years.
"We'll be keeping an eye out for signs of a repeat performance next year when the Earth-moon system passes through the same region of space, " Cooke said.
We instead need to put insurance plans, providers, hospitals, doctors on target such that they have an incentive, as you say, performance pay, for doing an excellent job for keeping costs down.
Keeping growth going in Germany is therefore essential to the future economic performance of Europe.
He was criticised for keeping fans waiting after coming on stage late for Monday's performance in London.
Earlier this week he was criticised for keeping fans waiting after coming on stage late for Monday's performance.
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Shortly after 9 he quietly slipped out, opting to skip a performance by jazz singer Cassandra Wilson in the interest of keeping his body clock on Moscow time.
Ms. Wilson was careful to distinguish keeping a record of what we do versus the annual or semi-annual performance reviews with management.
In looking at the performance of this sector since the March 2009 lows, I regret not keeping a closer eye on this group.
With the right combination of capacity, performance and rapid power cycling storage system designs can pump more iron while keeping cool and saving energy.
Keeping this in mind, you may want to design your own personal benchmark that measures absolute performance (i.e. performance vs. your investment goals) rather than performance relative to the market.
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The SEC's position is somewhere in the middle, that board independence has nothing to do with improving fund performance but is useful in eliminating conflicts of interest--that is, in keeping the business honest.
While some market trackers show AMD losing ground in the high-performance workstation market (translation: PCs for engineers and other geeks), AMD is keeping the heat on in the laptop market, announcing a deal this month that will put AMD chips in 20% of PC vendor Toshiba 's laptops.
While some market trackers show AMD losing ground in the high-performance workstation market (translation: PCs for engineers and other geeks), AMD is keeping the heat on in the laptop market, announcing a deal this month that will put AMD chips in 20% of PC vendor Toshiba 's (other-otc: TOSBF - news - people ) laptops.
Thankfully, that sentiment doesn't spill over into its performance, as the 1.5GHz dual-core S4 powering the device does an admirable job keeping navigation brisk.
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