Finally, firms that become more oriented toward short term performance may be reacting to their real environment, not to their financial environment.

Worse still, high levels of public debt, like high taxes, cause serious problems for economic performance.

It is an environment that will produce deep disparities in economic performance around the world.

The Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale Revised Edition, Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale, and Family Day Care Rating Scale were initiated as performance measures.

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a chemical process used to produce high quality, high performance, solid materials.

Nor has high taxation in the Nordic countries impeded economic performance.

Moreover, hedge fund managers can easily fake high performance without getting caught.

In 2008, he trained at the Center for High Performance San Cugat (Barcelona).

Due to their extremely high importance, foods are considered to be high risk factors of the environment.

See Gareth Porter et al., Global Environment Facility, Study of GEF's Overall Performance (1998) see also GEF OPS2.

She graduated from Millburn High School, where she participated in many school plays her high school performance as Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress gained her a Paper Mill Playhouse Rising Star Award nomination for Best Performance by a High School Actress.

But the costs of moving into a non defaulting environment are high.

So it should be possible to extract valuable elements like lithium for high performance batteries.

The PIIGS debt burden is so high that robust economic performance is next to impossible.

Achieving high performance involves integrated, whole building design, involving many components, not one single technology.

Performance indicators have also been used in certain technical cooperation programmes, notably the Montreal Protocol and other environment related areas.

The performance of the Transitional Federal Government on the ground and the overall political environment in Somalia are very promising.

Recognizing the high professional and personal qualities he brought to the performance of his duties and responsibilities,

By contrast, a better measure of economic performance might show that steps taken to improve the environment are good for the economy.

In paragraph 222 of its report, the Board recommended that UNRWA consider implementing performance monitoring reports in the computer server environment to remain abreast of any errors or areas of weakness in that environment.

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

In order to sustain high performance levels, sufficient time and resources must be secured on a more permanent basis.

If you are going to Jupiter, you have a very high radiation, you know, environment. It's about the same radiation environment close by Jupiter as inside a nuclear reactor.

More than 120 academic staff along with more than 100 labs and workshops have made PWUT a unique center that provides an environment to promote a high level of professional performance for trainees from various backgrounds from different Regional Electric Companies, Power Plants and Water and Waste water Companies.

The planned new environment will consolidate the master record keeping (accounting, reconciliation and performance reporting) and custodial services into a single master record keeper global custodian).

Parties recognized that poverty leads to high dependence on natural resources and the environment resulting in their overexploitation.

High ranking focal points for environment helped to increase awareness of environment issues in the customs departments of some countries and were instrumental in promoting the cooperation with the NOU.

Improved economic performance, a more favourable policy environment and corporate profitability, as well as an increase in M A activity in the region, are key underlying factors.

A personal supercomputer (PSC) is a high performance computer system with capabilities and costs between those of standard personal computers and supercomputers.

Over the next 10 years it would focus on the development of large capacity, high performance and long life broadcast communication satellites.

The Department of Management was requested to review methods of performance assessments used in other comparable organizations, with a view to preparing proposals for a set of qualitative and quantitative performance indicators covering both programmatic and managerial functions that would enable a high level evaluation of a senior manager's performance.

There is no real alternative. High carbon growth is doomed, crippled by high prices for fossil fuels and killed off by the hostile physical environment that climate change will create.

Any of you who rode the automobiles was it yesterday? at the track, you know the romance revolving around those high performance cars.

To believe that high oil prices are good because they serve the environment ignores some basic facts of international politics.

Three The secret to high performance isn't rewards and punishments, but that unseen intrinsic drive the drive to do things for their own sake.

And this pathetic performance comes at a time when many African economies agricultural sectors are booming on the back of high world food prices.

The advantages of certification include its potential clearly to distinguish those companies that have achieved high levels of performance (as defined by the standards).

Tonga's performance on the Human Development Index and the Human Poverty Index reflects a high level of expenditure in health and education, stagnant population growth and sustained high levels of investment in the social sector.

Antiparticles are also produced in any environment with a sufficiently high temperature (mean particle energy greater than the pair production threshold).

(g) Preservation of a high quality institutional image and signature in an environment of increased levels of financial and operational risk.

PARIS To evaluate an American president s foreign policy performance after one term is challenging, given the complex diplomatic and strategic environment and significant domestic constraints that confront every US president.

On the economic front, the Office of the High Representative continued to prioritize reforms designed to improve the business environment and to regulate the fiscal system in order to create a conducive environment for more jobs.

The point is that in today s go go ultra high liquidity environment, Eddie was probably successful in raising money with similar techniques.

Over the past year, humanitarian assistance workers have operated in a high risk environment in responding to the crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

The examination of multi spectral visible near infrared high resolution satellite imagery for indications of plant stress in the environment is ongoing.