Current estimates suggest that up to 81% of washes are followed by a drying cycle and although there have been modest improvements in their environmental performance, tumble dryers remain enormously energy intensive.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index offered a similar performance, tumbling 2.3%, or 19.26 points, to 825.88, to end the week 0.7% lower, and 8.6% below where it started the year.
In theory, Mr. Pandit and three other top executives received only their salary in 2007 because of Citigroup's poor performance – shares tumbled 47percentt, and the bank had more than $20 billion in write-offs.
Carson was left fuming and "embarrassed" by his performance after tumbling from the pommel horse.
Meanwhile, like the Beach Boys, they have parallel lives as their younger selves: previously unreleased studio outtakes and live performances keep tumbling out, including the recent reissue of 1978's "Some Girls" and the appearance late last year of stonesarchive.com, where the band is making available old concert tapes like the 1973 "Brussels Affair".
Thanks to Moore's Law, prices of computers have tumbled and performances have soared over the years, spurring unprecendented innovation in products and services.
For the record, Anna Dogonadze of Germany, a former world champion, won the gold medal with an air-catching, twisting and tumbling performance that was deemed four-tenths of a point better than that of the silver medalist, Karen Cockburn of Canada.
So I understood that Shakespeare's verse was never concerned with any pure authorial voice, but was instead a vast multiplicity of viewpoints, a rough and tumble performance text.
If there is a niggling doubt of impropriety about David Haye's confession that he bet on himself to stop Audley Harrison in the third round of their surreal world heavyweight title fight in Manchester, the greater crime was the predictably abject performance of the man who tumbled out of the fight and, for his sake and ours, out of boxing in that very round.
Behind the hedge fund's campaign is the poor performance of the Hartford's stock, which has tumbled more than 16 percent in the last 12 months.
