Some universal banks did well, others badly.

Some are doing very well, indeed.

Nonetheless, Venezuela fared far better than the average Latin American country.

On average, resource rich countries have done even more poorly than countries without resources.

In the last years, Classical Music has had great performances.

Yet some countries with abundant natural resources do perform better than others, and some have done well.

Asset markets performed reasonably well in 2010.

Historically, the stock market has performed well.

French companies do spectacularly well in the global market place.

What these comparisons show is that markets plus government have done better than markets minus government.

Run down the financial reserves and wealth that were accumulated when the economy was doing better.

On multilateral issues, Obama s performance is equally unimpressive.

Most economists viewed his performance as masterful.

Indeed, US and global equities have vastly outperformed gold since the sharp rise in gold prices in early 2009.

Financial markets did well through capital market liberalization.

Their best performance was winning the bronze medal at the 1987 All Africa Games.

If the framework is right, the system will perform well.

All this, too, stood behind the performance of the man on stage during the second two debates.

It is hard to argue that the British system performed any more effectively than the American, so the single regulator movement has suffered reputational damage.

In contrast, women who were told that their opponent was female performed as would be predicted by past ratings of performance.

In all of these areas, Venezuela is faring poorly even by Latin America s low standards.

Over periods of several years, our models do better.

But the Netherlands, and Austria and, to a lesser extent, Germany and France are faring slightly better.

In both indicators, Finland's performance was next to Germany, and significantly higher than most European countries.

Worldwide, Namibia also fared better than Hungary, Brazil and Mexico.

After appearing and performing live on MuchMusic, while touring in Canada, Ready, Set, Go!

His first Broadway Theatre performance was in Jersey Boys as Hank Mejewski.

The US has done slightly worse than suggested by this rough measure Japan has done a bit better and most other rich countries come pretty close.

LONDON The Greek debt problem has been poorly handled by Europe s decision makers.

On the right, the Likud party, which Sharon abandoned to establish Kadima, did very poorly, partly because many conservative voters also deserted it for religious, immigrant, and other parties.

But, viewed from a longer term perspective, Germany s economic performance is actually rather disappointing.

While advanced economies have performed far worse on average, there are notable exceptions, such as Germany and Sweden.

And, when it comes to putting their ideas into practice, the European Union s leaders have fallen short repeatedly.

With average yearly GDP growth of 2.2 from 1995 to 2005 it fell short of the non Scandinavian countries of the EU 15, which grew by 2.8 on average.

But democracy required an election, and many now argue that the current mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has performed even better than Giuliani might have done in reviving the city.

Of course, Russian diplomacy has performed extremely well recently, but it does not stand on its own merits alone.

Nonetheless, the EU s foreign policy performance in 2012 was positive overall.

Hardest to understand, though, is why India is underperforming so much relative to its potential.

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But when the downturn affects distinct groups differently, especially when members of some groups are (rightly or wrongly) perceived as doing better than the others, the second comparison gains significance as well.

Latin American students performed especially poorly on the problem solving part of these tests.

For example, the performance of Roger Milla and Cameroon's Indomitable Lions at the 1990 World Cup was a real revelation for all Africans.

With a delivered LINPACK performance of 122.4 TFLOPS, ES2 was the most efficient supercomputer in the world at that point.

In France, Jean Marie Le Pen s party has been substantially weakened, but in the Netherlands, the anti Islam party led by Geert Wilders won 17 of the votes, and in Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Slovakia, and even in the UK the far right did better than expected.