But my mother, in the only act of disloyalty I can ever recall, declared the performance of this aspiring thespian to be vastly superior to my own.

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Mitsubishi said it hoped stronger sales in Europe, China and Russia, where the recall scandal had less of an impact, would offset a weaker performance in Japan and the US in the months ahead.

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Gazza loyalists recall nostalgically that high-profile drinking binges have not impaired their man's performance in the past.

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This "noise in the system" erodes our performance on a wide spectrum of cognitive activities, including the ability to recall details in our lives.

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