One of the underlying causes of the network's bad performance is the time taken to recover from routine failures, such as in signalling or track.

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When Baron Cohen finishes a film, he struts around in the guise of his peacocking dolts for months at a time, turning routine promotional events into provocation and performance art.

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Parisian women take their grooming seriously and high-performance skincare plays an essential role in their daily routine.

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To set the table a bit: The Focus ST is what's known as a sport-compact, or a hot hatch, a category of performance-minded variants of what are generally pretty routine, practical hatchbacks.

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Some of Lock's routine-based material is the best around, but the overall performance seemed to try to cover a variety of areas - linking in with the Wikipedia-esque tour title "Lockipedia" - some are successful and others not so.

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The Winograd commission, which probed the army's performance in painstaking detail, concluded that it fought most of the war as a series of routine anti-terrorist operations.

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