Newt Gingrich has trumpeted a documentary arguing that Chinese and Indian children are much more academic than American ones.These politicians have no shortage of evidence that America's poor educational performance is weakening its economy.
McDonald's debt ratings were cut one notch Friday by Fitch Ratings, which said the world's largest fast-food chain's operating performance is weakening amid rising competition from Burger King and Wendy's International.
After a year in which Citigroup's stock performance was weakened by investor worries over the regulatory inquiries and potential lawsuits, the charge Citigroup took "will insulate the company's earnings for some time to come," said Judah Kraushaar, an analyst at Merrill Lynch.
Zynga's second-quarter numbers subsequently showed that its performance was weakening, though this may be in part a result of the release of only one major game, Empires and Allies, in the first half of the year.
As firms seek quality certifications for legitimacy purposes only, the actual performance impact is weakened.
Byun believes the first season had "solid writing and excellent performances", but is weakened by the freak of the week storylines that plagued the early episodes of the season; the season works best when the episodes focus on character development and not super powers.
Also, since β 3 < 0, β 4 > 0, β < 0, equation (1) can be described as stating that the level of family involvement has a positive impact on business performance, but its effect is weakened with the expansion of the business scale (hypothesis 2).
The results are compared in Tables 3 and 4. According to these results, we can conclude that the performance of FSLR, FBLR, and LogicFS is weakened either by the risk or by the noise.
The performance of the symmetry models, on the other hand, does not have a maximum, but grows when the center bias is weakened.
