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The performance against Gloucester was extremely encouraging, and we are looking forward to getting the Heineken Cup under way.

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance my performance as appointments chair, for example, to which the database that I developed is substantially connected. My performance as appointments chair was rejected by the student body.

The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,

The pleas entered today are admissions of guilt in one of the largest corporate accounting fraud schemes on record. This apparent but ephemeral performance by the company propped up its stock price, causing investors to suffer untold losses when the scheme collapsed.

We are providing a roadmap for Core, which will provide better performance and less power consumption for a broad array of devices.

We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.

We are pleased with the performance in the quarter, with the return of sequential revenue growth and with the solid earnings results,

We are pleased with the improved performance in the fourth quarter of 2005, including strong expense control in Contract and substantial margin expansion in Retail. With the fourth quarter Contract and Retail results, we continue to believe that OfficeMax is positioned to achieve the 2006 and intermediate- term goals that we outlined in our turnaround plan last month.

We are pleased with the financial performance and operational improvements that are demonstrated by our first quarter financial results, ... Our eighth consecutive quarter of double-digit sequential revenue growth and net earnings in the quarter of $2.8 million reflect a continuation of the momentum that was generated last fiscal year and put the company on pace to achieving our annual guidance.