This was said to be of great benefit in Usenet news spools, HTTP caches, mail delivery systems and other applications where performance with small files is critical.

Managing employee or system performance facilitates the effective delivery of strategic and operational goals.

Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield received an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, a reprise of the role he played in the stage version at the West End and on Broadway for which he received a Tony Award.

Vendor performance leads the business cycle because an increase in delivery time can indicate rising demand for manufacturing supplies.

In September 1998 Inktomi acquired C2B Technologies, adding a shopping engine technology to its portfolio ; In April 1999 Inktomi acquired Impulse Buy Network, adding 400 merchants to its shopping engine and performance based business shopping model ; in November 1999 Inktomi acquired Webspective ; in August 2000 Inktomi acquired Ultraseek Server from Disney's Go. com ; in September, 2000, Inktomi acquired FastForward Networks ; in December 2000, Inktomi acquired the Content Bridge Business Unit from Adero, a content delivery network, which had formed the Content Bridge Alliance with Inktomi, AOL and a number of other ISPs, hosting providers and IP transport providers ; and in June 2001 Inktomi acquired eScene Networks.

" A " sales team " is a common example of this loose or perhaps euphemistic usage, though inter dependencies exist in organisations, and a sales team can be let down by poor performance on other parts of the organisation upon which sales depend, like delivery, after-sales service, etc ..

The native school keeps the Exim configuration in one file and external files are only used as data sources ; this is strongly influenced by Philip Hazel's preferences and notes on performance as the configuration file is re-read at every exec, which involves post-fork for new mails and at delivery.

According to former ACES employee Phil Taylor, the shutdown was not due to sales performance of FSX, but due to management issues and delays in project delivery, combined with increased demand for staff.

It includes delivery and order fulfillment performance, production flexibility, warranty and returns processing costs, inventory and asset turns, and other factors in evaluating the overall effective performance of a supply chain.

Having previously only raced in very junior open-wheel categories, he was given his Super Licence from the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) after a performance delivery promise by his team boss, Peter Sauber.

As Hawaiian Airlines took delivery of larger Douglas DC-9-30s, Aloha realized its smaller One-Elevens, which also took performance penalties in Kona, put it at a disadvantage.

Many universities wanted to run Unix rather than VMS, so Pyramid's higher performance and lower price, coupled with artificial delivery delays or surcharges from DEC helped them to make the risky decision to buy from a new manufacturer.

* Flow ( rapping ), the delivery of a rap music vocal performance, defined by prosody, cadence, and speed

His batting was also valuable to the Pakistan ODI side, such as his match winning performance in the Nehru Cup, when needing six runs and two balls to win the match ; he hit the first delivery he faced for six runs and secured the cup.

During a three-year tour, he flew stability / control, performance, spin, and weapons delivery flight tests in the SEPECAT Jaguar, Blackburn Buccaneer, BAE Hawk, and BAC Jet Provost aircraft.

Hall's performance style is also eclectic, his delivery ranging from a deadpan monotone to melodic tenor singing to overwrought screaming.

The union has claimed that contractors provide a poor parcel delivery service, with a newspaper reporting anecdotes of unsatisfactory performance during the peak Christmas period, including a propensity to insert " delivery failure " cards into mailboxes rather than attempting delivery of packages, thus requiring the customer to travel to their local post office to collect items personally.

The delivery of the various performance objectives ( POs ) will be through a mixture of mandatory and complementary enabling objectives ( EOs ).

Major areas of research are commercialization of life-sciences products and services ; role of the private sector in healthcare delivery and technology ; alliances ( public-public, private-private, public-private ) in healthcare ; performance management, governance and control ; organizational redesign and system integration and sustainability of public funding in Canadian healthcare.

The role of early biwa hoshi in delivery the vocal performance of battle tales “ to allay the fury of slain warriors ’ ghosts ” further implies a shamanistic qualification of the blind.

These committees have responsibilities for: establishing programme objectives, curriculum content and delivery modes ; establishing terminal standards and certification ; prescribing training equipment, hardware and software ; prescribing training facilities and environment ; advising on industrial training attachments ; reviewing programme results and diploma holders ’ employment performance ; monitoring and reviewing market demand ; and reviewing and upgrading programmes.

To do this successfully required great skill and a special talent for both solemn and ribald raillery, a talent not bestowed on many persons, but one with which Milton was marked as being endowed and in which, at least in this performance, he obviously reveled.

but even in that famous passage, Milton was aiming not at the theatricals as such but at their performance by ' persons either enter'd, or presently to enter into the ministry.

Robby's performance last year was tremendous.

In Boston, Edwin Booth was winding up a performance of A New Way To Pay Old Debts.

The play for Saturday night was to be a benefit performance of The Octoroon.

But then, after the little operetta had been given its feeble amateur rendering, everyone insisted that it was too good to be lost forever, and that the Royal Academy of Music must now have the manuscript in order to give it the really first-rate performance it merited.

Rousseau was aware that he must seem like a hypocrite, standing there and arguing that he could not possibly permit a public performance.

And that was why, on the day of the performance, when a carriage from the royal stables called to take him to the palace, he did not bother to shave.

The hen appeared to have no doubts as to her duties and was quick to settle down to the performance of them.

One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

Chicago was also a welcome host: there, in 1921, Prokofieff conducted the world premiere of the Love For Three Oranges, and played the first performance of his Third Piano Concerto.

As he leads the Neurenschatz Skolkau Orchestra, Schlek gives a tremendously inspired performance of both the Baslot and Rattzhenfuut concertos, including the controversial Tschilwyk cadenza, which was included at the conductor's insistence.

Leaving the theatre after the performance, I had a flash of intuition that life, after all ( as Rilke said ), is just a search for the nonexistent cup of hot coffee, and that this unpretentious, moving, clever, bitter slice of life was the greatest thing to happen to the American theatre since Brooks Atkinson retired.

Interviewing, checking references, training the salesmen, having them go with more experienced salesmen was expensive -- and the rate of attrition due to resignations or unsatisfactory performance was too high.

Andy's performance was scheduled for eleven o'clock.

It was what they said before every performance but tonight it sounded different, as if he really needed it.

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

Berger's decision to sue for the full amount of the performance bond was questioned by Wagner in the morning press conference.

Mankowski, the ball-hawking defensive expert, was cited for his performance against Bradley in St. Louis U.'s nationally televised victory.

The board's last money raising event was a performance by Harry Belafonte -- `` quite off-beat for this group '', decided some of the members.

Each high note had the crowd in ecstasy so that it stopped the show midway in the `` Mad Scene '', but the real reason was a realization of the extraordinary performance unfolding at the moment.