Many employers remain prejudiced against older workers, and not always without reason: performance in manual jobs does drop off in middle age, and older people are often slower on the uptake and less comfortable with new technology.
Another pointed to the seasonal tendency for gold to put in a lackluster performance during June and July as a reason prices could be sideways to lower.
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That a heavyweight like Cargill Dow is convinced it can beat conventional plastics on cost and performance alone may be the best reason to think that biopolymers are about to burst out of their mouldy, green niche.
The reason was the strong performance of Toy Story 3 and Iron Man 2 in the third quarter of 2010, as opposed to the weaker performance of Cars 2 and Thor in the current quarter.
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And seven in 10 say Bush's overall job performance was the reason for the Democratic victory.
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Mr. BERNANKE: I believe that the Federal Reserve's success in reducing and stabilizing inflation and inflation expectations is a major reason for this improved economic performance.
Chinese investors expect the government to step in to reverse any sharp decline, either in individual stocks or in the overall market, and so there is little reason to link a company's performance to fundamental figures.
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There has also been a more subtle reason for the rise in commodity prices and, by extension, the comparatively stellar performance of the Australian stockmarket.
State and municipal pension funds often let politics intrude on investment decisions -- one reason the performance of these pools often lags those of the private sector.
And captain Kumar Sangakkara admitted their top-order collapse was the main reason for their below-par performance.
For whatever reason, the best companies in these countries have superior disclosure, better performance against same industry peers, and better performance improvement over time.
Oh, I am not going to jump on the Apple-is-losing-its-edge bandwagon or make some obscure connection between its recent stock price fluctuations to some fatal shift in its corporate or supply chain performance (and those rumors around the reductions in orders for iPhone screens, if true, probably stem from a solid reason like a change in product strategy).
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