Perhaps more important for Mr. de Blasio, the number of people who had no opinion or did not know about his job performance shrank to 37 percent from 44 percent in June — a sign that he is gradually becoming better known.
This, it suggested, pointed to a wider cultural shift in society, which had seen expectations grow and tolerance of poor performance shrink.
At its peak in 1932, unemployment hit 22.9% and U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), a standard measure of economic performance, had shrunk by 14%.
Still, this 1956 work can be glorious to behold — though small or bland performances can shrink it into mere confectionery.
Unfortunately, such a restriction can only further hurt the overall performance since it shrinks the overall optimization space.
The performance gap has shrunk, the tournament should not.
But performance fees have shrunk to 5 percent or less, often after a minimum risk-free return is reached, in recognition of the more earthbound expectations investors now have of performance.
As such a device is never going to gain significant cost or performance benefits from shrinking further, there is good reason to design SoC devices around mature process technologies like 28nm, with their minimal costs.
His best work remains "The Singing Detective," made for TV, and Bill Paterson — whose performance as a shrink, going head-to-head with the hero, was a highlight of that series — returns, in "Creation," as the redoubtable Dr. Gully, of Malvern, whose water treatments were a famous fad of the age.
The strategic shift, I.B.M. executives said, is largely shaped by the prospect of coming to the end of the traditional path of improving performance by steadily shrinking the size of transistors and piling more into each silicon chip to increase processing speed.
