Meanwhile, as Australia find new ways to get themselves out of winning positions, England keep conjuring new ways to win despite chronically underperforming.
Our commitment to borrow for capital investment at a time when the cost of borrowing is zero and the economy is still underperforming was a huge and important dividing line between us and the Conservatives that we seemed to want to obscure.
[Its brand] is underperforming relative to its assets.
The public also envisages the Lib Dems outperforming most polls by achieving 14%, and Ukip underperforming somewhat, with 10%.
Yet they are firm about the rules of the game and the standards required, and they have fired underperforming clinicians in order to send a signal across the organisation.
The real howlers are exposed in Bestinvest's twice-yearly Spot the Dog report (bestinvest.co.uk/dogs) into underperforming funds, which includes serial offenders such as Scottish Widows UK Growth.
Parts of Germany have got rid of underperforming schools and reformed technical education.
Earnings per share increased even more sharply, from $1.18 to $1.42, because of the firm's big share buy-back programme.Apple's results shine even more brightly because its rivals are currently underperforming.
What we can suggest, however, is that the "spreading the wealth" meme pushed by John McCain in the waning weeks of the campaign did not prevent him from seriously underperforming George Bush among the well off.
In 1994, the country's first democratically-elected government inherited a distorted, underperforming economy, based on a system that had deprived the majority of the population of education and economic opportunities.
Separately, it has been dumping a load of underperforming businesses, such as transaction services and asset management.
