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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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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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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These employees managed to keep up this routine for the first three years at the banks, but starting in the fourth year, some saw their performance decline, particularly when it came to creative thinking.

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