Perhaps the biggest long-term threat to Volkswagen is its eroding performance in customer satisfaction surveys.
That defeat, and the eroding performance of the bench in recent games, helped hasten Robinson's return.
We are producing people who will do jobs they are not passionate about, which erodes performance instead of adding value.
So literally in the shooting of the present, we used time to break down and erode the performance, and then we used time in the past to give the freshness and spontaneity to performances.
Driving in extreme cold can reduce the range of a lithium-ion battery, and any number of factors can erode their performance, be it excessive heat, overcharging or deterioration of the electrolyte.
Those transactions helped Adelphia, the nation's No. 5 cable television operator, mask the eroding financial performance that led to its bankruptcy in June 2002, Mr. Brown said.
Mark J. Vaselkiv, president of the T. Rowe Price High Yield fund, said WorldCom bonds, at 0.25percentt of the fund's assets, eroded his performance by two-tenths of a percentage point for the year.
That day, Mr. Brown provided damaging testimony against all the Rigases, describing a variety of accounting gimmicks, sham transactions and phony financial reports that helped Adelphia mask the eroding financial performance that led to its filing for bankruptcy protection in June 2002.
Excessively high ion energy during deposition was found to erode the tribological performance of films.
The two are in a private battle for the championship, despite the hopes of Red Bull and Ferrari that they might erode the huge performance advantage of the Mercedes.
