Sooner or later, their once-sharp skills get dull, and they ride on past performance.

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For example, all Executive models are equipped with Adaptive air-suspension featuring Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM), which combines superior performance and enhanced ride comfort.

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World-class performance without a painful ride and with a fair bit of practicality makes us want this car more than a Corvette.

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"From our perspective, the overwhelming majority of customers want the highest performance so they can ride it as long as possible, " said David Graves, a spokesman at Dell in Austin, Texas.

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Realizing the significance of his performance, Sastre punched the air with delight in the closing meters of his ride and he holds a one minute and five seconds advantage over Evans in the overall classification.

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Ours is not a cynical effort to ride the Google wave to capture page views or audience (though we certainly want to improve our performance in these areas).

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In fact, the new ride offers guests the ability to create their own virtual concept before riding their SimCar through a series of performance tests.

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Rather than step in when performance flags, many prefer to sell the shares or sit back and wait for a free ride on the activism of others.

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In order to deliver equivalent land-based performance, MTN has invested in the design and launch of special-purpose satellite payloads that will ride on the next generation Intelsat EPIC platform which will offer at-sea communications experience which is presently impossible to achieve.

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