The good news for fund investors is that the performance gap has closed over time.
Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw says the performance gap between some areas is "completely unacceptable".
Encouragingly, though, Panel B shows that during the most recent ten years, the performance gap has narrowed dramatically.
Essentially, the performance gap is narrow enough to be explained by wishful thinking.
The performance gap between youth with the least and most parental education in the United States was the equivalent of 15 years of additional schooling.
As issues such as climate change and access to affordable medicines in emerging markets hit corporate bottom lines with ever-increasing impact, this out-performance gap will grow.
As the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has pointed out in its latest assessment, the performance gap between America and the rest of the industrial world is widening.
Here are the six performance strategies, moving left to right: eliminate waste, drive top priorities, leverage purchasing scale, close the IT performance gap, open government to get results and finally, attract and motivate top talent.
Designed to eliminate data bottlenecks that slow the creative production process for digital artists, the Fusion ioFX enables creative professionals to meet deadlines while exploring more artistic possibilities by bridging the performance gap between workstations and today's powerful digital content creation applications.
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"Whether working on shots in a large studio, boutique or as an independent artist, there has long been a performance gap that limits how well even the most cutting edge applications can perform in professional workstations, " said Vincent Brisebois, Fusion-io Performance Computing Industry Senior Director.
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However, as we wait for the December sales results for Gap, we believe the strong performance year to date for Gap coupled with strong consumer spending trends during the holiday season can provide an upside to our forecasts.
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Where we have had a polarised game, this now bridges the gap between high performance and community.
In an occurrence that is becoming all the more common, Gap saw its performance numbers posted online ahead of time, prompting the a stock halt as shares in the company jumped.
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An analysis by Martin Barnes, of the Bank Credit Analyst, finds that if America's growth performance is instead measured by the gap between actual and potential output, it looks much less stellar.
The gap between Western and Eastern economic performance eventually became a political issue.
They once again did far better locally than they are doing nationally, and the gap between their local and national performance is growing.
Walton's research has had a particularly dramatic effect on students' achievement, especially for minority students and women in overwhelmingly male-dominated majors, who may suffer from the dreaded minority achievement gap: the disparity in academic performance that often persists between minority and disadvantaged students and their white counterparts.
Based on the Fusion ioMemory platform that leading enterprises around the world trust to accelerate their data centers, the 420 GB Fusion ioFX connects via the PCI Express bus to provide studios and artists with a new memory tier that bridges the gap between creative potential and hardware performance in the production pipeline.
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More than half of the gap in returns can be attributed to performance chasing and other bad investing habits, Dalbar found.
Other companies promote innovation without requiring face time: 3M rewards employees who come up with innovative ideas, Google encourages interactions across departmental divides without eliminating telecommuting altogether, and companies like Suntell and Gap Inc. evaluate their employees on performance, not presence.
Even though ROE is lower than its peers, we believe the steady performance of this company will allow it to bridge the gap with its peers.
One thing is for sure though: whoever Stephan selects to fill his left-sided gap against Gambia will have to put in a splendid performance to make the Senegalese fans forget about Fadiga.
At the same time, it also illustrates a large gap between what is expected from these professionals and their performance, and draws attention to the disturbing dearth of guide on these issues that have escaped the attention of most consultants and advisers to these professionals.
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Although Wales have never beaten New Zealand on their own turf, and not anywhere for 57 years, Roberts believes they still have every chance of closing the gap if they can just put together an 80 minute performance rather than playing in fits and starts.
My guess is that the performance of the cars will be even closer this year, especially the gap between the front-running teams and the midfield.
Don Cornwell has been on the board for 10 years and his background is in radio, and Paul Pressler was the CEO of Gap for 5 years prior to resigning under pressure for poor performance (stock).
The gap between Labour's opinion-poll ratings and its performance in the mid-term ballot box may be embarrassing for Tony Blair, but it is not necessarily evidence that the polls are wrong about voting intention in a general election.
"We are all able to speculate on the reasons for this failure and we are sure that many column inches will be written about the funding gap, inadequate continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities, leadership issues, performance management, best practice and disruptive behaviour, " he said.
The Gap's chief executive left in January 2007 amid an uproar over the company's performance.
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