WADA loada baloney: Remember those swirling assertions back in 1999 about seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and his apparent penchant for performance-enhancing drugs?
BUT that does not mean he has not seasoned the cultural brew with several shakes of G.E. salt -- its penchant for measuring performance of people and businesses in concrete terms, for asking everyone and anyone for their ideas, sifting through those ideas and then going directly to action without months of cogitation or tests.
It was a perfect city to ply your trade as a quirky motherfucker with a penchant for "edgy performance art" and whimsical scarves.
Penn also has a penchant for praising performances that you wouldn't think were his sort of thing — the night-club act of Dean Martin, say, or the launching of a NASA space probe.
Nominated 13 times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, more than anyone else in history, Meryl Streep is taking her penchant for standout performances as strong, decisive women to new heights -- and, if all goes according to plan, a 17th nod from the Academy.
The Taiwanese company has given up its scattershot approach in favor of pushing more tantalizing handsets, and that mentality combined with its long-standing penchant for design and performance could mean some truly great things for Microsoft's mobile ecosystem.
Wells was, of course, also chosen because of his 11-2 record, his penchant for big-game performances, and his perfect game against Minnesota on May 17.
Gary Wong is a profoundly confounding figure of monastic ubiquity and a penchant for character-based performance-art band-music.
The next year, Colin Powell similarly noted the penchant for the "raters" on performance reviews to exaggerate.
The Icelandic education minister, Katrin Jakobsdottir, questioned the British and U.S. penchant for tests measuring student performance as indications of teacher competence.
