In the late 1980s, continuing poor economic performance brought new economic hardship.

The poor British performance in the early months of the war forced Asquith to invite the Conservatives into a coalition ( on 17 May 1915 ).

Total foreign direct investment ( FDI ) was only $ 3. 4 billion in 2006, up 52 % from a poor performance in 2005.

This, combined with poor ownership decisions ( such as the College of Coaches ), hampered on-field performance.

The poor performance of Zaire's military during Shaba I gave evidence of chronic weaknesses ( which extend to this day ).

There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for the poor performance against Richmond, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an embarrassing 28 point loss to VFA premiers Footscray Football Club in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46, 100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Disabled Soldiers ' Fund, purportedly ( but not officially ) for the championship of Victoria.

Unlike Common Lisp, Scheme existed at the time Stallman was rewriting Gosling Emacs into GNU Emacs, but he chose not to use it because of its comparatively poor performance on workstations, and he wanted to develop a dialect which he thought would be more easily optimized.

Meanwhile, the synchronization gear ( called the Stangensteuerung in German, for " pushrod control system ") devised by the engineers of Anthony Fokker's firm was the first system to see production contracts, and would make the Fokker Eindecker monoplane a feared name over the Western Front, despite its being an adaptation of an obsolete pre-war French Morane-Saulnier racing airplane, with a mediocre performance and poor flight characteristics.

Some people attribute this poor performance to the reluctance of the campaign to cater to the prevalent mood of nationalism and patriotism, instead focusing on subjects such as global warming.

Another cites smoking and drinking, combined with poor academic performance and possibly some inappropriate comments made to the staff.

The purpose of the fee is to discourage short-term investing, reduce turnover and deter withdrawals after periods of poor performance.

A new government was formed by the Democrats of the Left leader and former communist Massimo D ' Alema, but in April 2000, following poor performance by his coalition in regional elections, D ' Alema resigned.

Such scales can be used to clearly define the behaviors that constitute poor, average, and superior performance.

These factors include errors in job measurement techniques, acceptance and the justification of poor performance and lack of importance of individual performance.

Only a few thousand systems using the original Merced Itanium processor were sold, due to relatively poor performance, high cost and limited software availability.

When properly implemented, as in the Columbia University Kermit Software collection, Columbia University's Kermit group claim performance is equal to or better than other protocols such as ZMODEM, YMODEM, and XMODEM, especially on poor connections.

Moreover the front line units in the West were complaining about the poor numbers and performance of aircraft.

Both the encoder and decoder begin with a trivial model, yielding poor compression of initial data, but as they learn more about the data, performance improves.

: MySQL 5. 1 and 6. 0 showed poor performance when used for data warehousing — partly due to its inability to utilize multiple CPU cores for processing a single query.

First-generation microkernels typically supported synchronous as well as asynchronous IPC, and suffered from poor IPC performance.

Jochen Liedtke identified the design and implementation of the IPC mechanisms as the underlying reason for this poor performance.

However, Jochen Liedtke showed that Mach's performance problems were the result of poor design and implementation, and specifically Mach's excessive page cache footprint.

While these results demonstrate that the poor performance of systems based on first-generation microkernels is not representative for second-generation kernels such as L4, this constitutes no proof that microkernel-based systems can be built with good performance.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Richards and Churchill both responded with " obstructionist tactics " that exacerbated the already poor command situation.

Warren Hastings was born at Churchill, Oxfordshire in 1732 to a poor father and a mother who died soon after he was born.

When Linlinthgow retired as viceroy in the summer of 1943, Wavell was chosen to replace him, surprisingly, given his poor relationship with Churchill.

Wilson was privately scathing about what he called “ Hot Air, Aeroplanes & Arabs ”-Trenchard's plan for Air Defence backed by Arab levies, announced by Churchill at the Cairo Conference in July 1921-although glad at the reduction in military commitment, and wrote to Rawlinson that when trouble came Churchill would “ hop into an aeroplane and fly away, waving Ta-Ta to any poor bloody native who is stupid enough to back us ”.

When Winston Churchill, formerly head of the Landships Committee but now a backbench MP, heard of the tanks use and performance at Flers-Courcelette he responded: " My poor ' land battleships ' have been let off prematurely on a petty scale ".

Previous owner CN had limited tonnage on these lines as a result of the light rail and poor track base ; however OmniTrax has been able to successfully operate heavier rail cars and longer trains in recent years without difficulty, resulting in increased business to the Port of Churchill and from various mines and pulp mills.

A network television camera in the Churchill Downs stands captured Unbridled's trainer, Carl Nafzger, giving the horse's elderly owner, Frances Genter, an exciting stretch call because of her poor vision.

Since leprosy had nearly disappeared in Italy, Alberoni obtained the consent of the pope to suppress of the hospital, which had fallen into great disorder, and replaced it with a seminary for the priestly education of seventy poor boys, under the name of the Collegio Alberoni, which it still bears.

After the commercial disappointment of Citizen Kane, RKO was apprehensive about the new film, and after poor preview responses, cut it by nearly an hour before its release.

Always engaged in charity ( often in memory of Maestro Rossini ), she left nearly all her estate to the poor of Paris.

The compromise was considered a poor outcome for Michigan at the time ; nearly all of it was still Indian territory, and voters in a state convention in September soundly rejected it.

His reign saw several reforms: the poor law was updated, child labour restricted, slavery abolished in nearly all the British Empire, and, most important, the Reform Act 1832 refashioned the British electoral system.

But the rebuilding required as a result of the insurrection, as well as the climate of uncertainty it created, alongside the existing poor economic conditions, created an economic depression which would take nearly a century to lift.

For this reason, if the outer surface of the apparatus were to consist of layers of a very infusible hard substance with layers of a poor heat conductor between, the surface would not be eroded to any considerable extent, especially as the velocity of the apparatus would not be nearly so great as that of the average meteor.

In the US, the scandal led to passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and nearly led to the ailing corporation's downfall ( it was already struggling due to the poor sales of the L-1011 airliner ).

With protein of poor nutritional quality, more fat than ( and nearly five times the sodium of ) potato chip s, pork rind s meet the common criteria for junk food.

Because of Mobutu's poor human rights record, the Carter Administration put some distance between itself and the Kinshasa government ; even so, Zaire received nearly half the foreign aid Carter allocated sub-Saharan Africa.

The tape had to be so thin that it was nearly transparent and therefore had fewer particles to magnetize, resulting in a poor sound quality and even worse durability.

The Oilers had done a poor job of drafting during the dynasty years, and the younger players hadn't had nearly enough time to develop before the core of the 1980s dynasty left town.

" The 1971 Mustang was nearly 3 inches wider than the 1970, its front and rear track was also widened by 3 inches, and its size was most evident in the SportsRoof models with its nearly flat rear roofline and cramped interior with poor visibility for the driver.

The lands is nearly all unfit for farming purposes, the soil being very poor and in most places the stone and gravel comes to the surface.

In 2004, Yared's score to the movie Troy ( which he had spent nearly a year working on ) was rejected ( less than a month before the film's opening ) due to the poor reception by an audience at a test screening.

As he then marched across Mexico, he gathered an army of nearly 90, 000 poor farmers and Mexican civilians in his rebellion against Spanish rule.

Born into a poor family, Clifford was the youngest of four children ( eldest sister, two brothers ) by nearly 10 years to his next sibling.

Given that nearly all Jews of their day were poor or middle-class ( even the rich of that time were only rich relative to the poor ), they ruled that one should not give away more than a fifth of his income to charity, while yet being obligated to give away no less than 10 % of his income to charity.

Sales were very poor, and by 1927 the production company faced bankruptcy, and its shares became nearly worthless.

After Vinny's poor showing at the hearing, Stan decides to fire him and use the public defender, John Gibbons ( Austin Pendleton ), and nearly convinces Billy to do the same, but Vinny asks for one more chance to prove himself.

The simplest pivot selection algorithm is to take the first or the last element of the list as the pivot, causing poor behavior for the case of sorted or nearly sorted input.

Easterly reproached The End of Poverty in his review for The Washington Post, and Easterly's 2006 book White Man's Burden is a rebuttal of Sachs's argument that poor countries are stuck in a " poverty trap " from which there is no escape except by massively scaled-up foreign aid, though Sachs himself has clearly emphasized the need for a complex, multifaceted, clinical and unique approach to economic development, of which increased and responsible foreign aid is nearly always a necessary but insufficient part.

Works him fairly but due to the poor lighting in Beauty's stable Beauty nearly goes blind.