The reasons for poor performance are deep seated and complex.

But, despite its recent poor performance, Japan retains impressive power resources.

In Yemen, poor economic performance is likely to extend into 1993.

Instead of insults, you should give my poor boy a job.

Was he out digging up a job for poor Joe Gillis?

Second, this poor performance shows how short sighted the international community can be.

Failed in the first form in 1991 1992 due to poor course performance

literally dropping out of high school, college.... and it's not simply poor performance.

Now here, I'm going to do a very poor job of silver soldering.

Innovative thinking and flexibility will be required qualities for successful performance on the job.

This is the approach still preferred by the Obama administration, despite its poor performance.

Third, a higher CEO pay slice is associated with weaker accountability for poor performance.

(c) There was no penalty clause in case of poor contractor performance at UNOCI

The poor are squeezed by cuts in social programs and a weak job market.

If I were to do badly my poor performance would hold the whole class up.

Economic performance in sub Saharan Africa has been poor compared with that of other regions.

I went to a poor performance school, so I'll probably never own my own house.

That's nature's way of telling you that you're doing a poor job of defining space.

We are now pursuing an economic strategy that is pro growth, pro poor and pro job.

As I pointed out in recent Congressional testimony, poor education leads to poor job prospects, poor families, and back to poor education if not with a detour through incarceration, which makes it even harder to break the cycle.

Regular performance reports reviewed by the responsible managers should identify adverse trends and poor performance as they start to happen and hence facilitate timely corrective action.

In principle, low post crisis growth in the advanced countries need not impede poor countries economic performance.

Their performance might be very positive or very poor, yet they would continue to occupy that position.

That's my job. I'm paid to do it. Pitifully poor, but I am paid to do it.

No job, everybody against me, my poor dad sitting in a cell, and it's a wonderful day.

While growth is usually needed for poverty reduction, it does not necessarily translate into job creation, as many countries recent record of jobless or job poor growth demonstrates.

A typical mistake in evaluating manufacturing performance is to look solely at output or productivity without examining job creation.

An I O psychologist might be interested in how trainees' motivation to transfer is related to later job performance.

New approaches that should be looked into included the implications for job classification of the introduction of performance pay.

Domestically, his poor performance in addressing South Africa s HIV AIDS epidemic will ensure that he is judged harshly.

Significance Bad contacts are the cause of failure or poor performance in a wide variety of electrical devices.

He thought this instrument had some severe technical faults in particular, its great length led to poor performance.

These typically involve system tuning, changing operating system or device parameters, or even refactoring the application software to resolve poor performance due to poor design or bad coding practices.

And that left the administration open to the charge that bad policy was the cause of poor economic performance.

When oil prices were high and growing, the government could compensate for poor performance by throwing money at problems.

Unpredictable weather conditions, natural disasters and the unfavourable external situation continued to contribute to the poor performance of LDCs.

Nobody, and no country, can afford to be there, where performance is poor and there are large social disparities.

Together with poor design, they explain why America s 2009 stimulus cost several hundred thousand dollars per temporary job created.

Bangladesh noted the work initiated by the Commission in the areas of job classification and training, evaluation of training, and performance management, which were important elements of a performance oriented management culture.

The Obama administration was not responsible for poor US economic performance in the immediate post crisis period that was inevitable.

Many Americans will reject Bush this November because of the poor performance of the economy or the quagmire in Iraq.

Additionally, some groups among those exposed in utero have shown lower than average intelligence scores and poor performance in school.

In the two previous annual reports of the Unit, the poor performance of agencies was reported on in this respect.

GFPs, preferably senior staff with gender expertise, should have clear job descriptions and performance indicators, matched with allocation of time and resources.

In a climate of deep recession and stagnation, the economic performance of the rich countries had been generally poor. That poor performance had had severe consequences for most developing countries, especially those in Africa, which suffered from acute market constraints, declining prices for primary commodities and excessive debt burdens.