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With few exceptions, countries that focused on commodity exports performed dismally, whereas many resource-poor Asian countries raced ahead.
American forces performed disastrously at the Battle of Bladensburg in August 1814, allowing the British to capture and burn the capital.
Obama has performed much better in foreign policy than in domestic policy, which is all the more surprising given the weak hand that he was dealt: an America that had lost its moral authority, its military invincibility, and its credibility as an economic model.
Either the desired service is performed from abroad – telemarketing, for example – or the work is sent abroad for processing and later imported to the home country (in Europe, more and more industrial work is being outsourced from West to East).
With the local authority effectively issuing money for work performed, the local economy boomed.
Many college-educated workers simply have been forced down the occupational ladder into jobs traditionally performed by lower-skilled workers, who in turn have been pushed further down the occupational ladder or out of the labor force altogether.
Mobilizing Africa's Governments to Fight HIV/AIDSLast year a Nigerian team of HIV/AIDS experts performed what many thought to be a miracle: they submitted a well-designed, thoughtfully written, and locally developed proposal to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
To say that they were implies three things: top bank executives were rewarded for short-term results with large amounts of up-front cash; bank executives did not hold sufficiently large amounts of stock to align their interests with those of shareholders; and executives with more short-term pay and less stock ownership should have had the greatest incentive to take bad and excessive risks, and thus should have performed worse in the crisis.
In stock trading, 79% of market transactions are now performed by software, according to Frank Zhang of the Yale School of Management, reflecting the hope that machines will be able to identify patterns more effectively than a human could – a hope that may have contributed to the recent stock-market correction.
Yellen, whom I have known since we worked together in 1977, has performed very well in her nearly four years as Fed Chair.
According to them, aggregate output is a function of traditional labor, traditional capital, and capital involved in tasks that can be performed entirely without labor.
This leads to an obvious question: how do we know that we actually performed a motor act rather than only seeing it?
Pundits will say that May lost the election because she performed robotically on the campaign trail, failed to answer journalists’ questions with conviction, and refused to debate Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who campaigned with more panache than anyone expected.
This proposition was recently tested anew on Icelandic data and performed well.
Theorems will be solved, crucial experiments performed, discoveries made next week or the week after that.
Over the last two decades, many emerging countries, including some of the largest, have performed well in this respect.
I have performed jury duty and found it an inspiring experience.
Both are first-rate, have served as ministers with multiple portfolios, have performed admirably in top positions in multilateral organizations, and have the diplomatic skills and professional competence to do an outstanding job.
While optimists predict that these innovations will usher in an era of unprecedented abundance, less sanguine analysts estimate that nearly half of all jobs currently performed by humans are vulnerable to replacement by robots and increasingly sophisticated software.
But with new, highly precise gene-editing techniques, such a molecular defect could be repaired; such procedures already have been performed successfully in monkeys.
Having performed poorly in a spate of recent state elections, the ruling Congress Party is betting that the new budget will swing voters its way if the national election, currently scheduled for April 2009, is moved forward to this autumn.
After out-performing the market during the 1990’s, the governance-based strategy subsequently performed on par with it.
Stock Market FantasiesHistorically, the stock market has performed well.
Though the return varied by decade, even turning negative in some decades, overall it performed fairly consistently.
Of course, if one looks at many different investment strategies and many different countries, one can find something that performed spectacularly in the past, even if there is no strategy that can be expected to do so well in the future.
Of course, Greenspan’s behavior meant that under his watch, the economy performed better than it otherwise would have.
Despite significant political trauma, the United States and the United Kingdom have performed as expected.
To its scattered ethnic groups, it performed the twin roles of referee and bouncer, pacifying indigenous rivalries and protecting pint-sized nations from predatory states.
So long as it performed these functions, Austria was viewed as a “European necessity” – a balancer of nationalities and of nations for which there was no conceivable substitute.
This type of gene modification is not currently legal in the UK, although “somatic” genome editing – performed on the non-heritable genes of individual patients – is permitted.
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