performance

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"This atomic disorder limits performance because it traps and scatters electrons, much like potholes slowing traffic on a highway," describes Dr. Dongqi Li from TU Dresden.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

Competing fund managers and bank traders say Lemssouguer’s approach is overly aggressive, causing his performance to swing wildly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Nonprofit live performance everywhere is in seemingly desperate search for funding.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

The risk/reward of staying in private funds isn’t good because fund performance has started to weaken and there is a risk of higher redemptions in the coming quarters.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

It was a vintage Franklin performance, reminiscent of his bemused but devastating recommendations to the English government in 1770 about the surest means to take the decisive action guaranteed to destroy the British Empire.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis