One big obstacle in winning more of that business was Google co-founder Mr. Page, who objected to letting Google's advertising customers work with companies that installed "cookies" on people's computers for purposes of serving ads and tracking their performance.

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The performance of the company, serving customers in 180 countries, is seen as a bellwether of the global economy.

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Yet it is a respected community bank with an 80-year tradition of serving its market and a very solid financial performance to show for its efforts.

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Peak performance results from a passionate commitment to a mission worth serving and this is what Transformational Organizations like monasteries and the Marine Corps invariably inspire.

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Broadcom's 28 nanometer (nm) ARM-based BCM7445 UltraHD video decoder solution, serving as the primary gateway to the home, delivers more transcoding, CPU processing performance and home networking throughput to support a greater range of applications such as video-on-demand (VoD), gaming, social media and web store applications.

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This meant there was an "over-emphasis" on short-term financial performance, reinforced by a bonus and pay culture that rewarded money-making over serving the interests of customers and clients.

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Only when bureaucracies and self-serving unions recognize that they are accountable for what they do and that there are consequences for poor performance will pre-college education in America blossom again.

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