On Thursday, the company said it saw a 2.6 per cent drop in comparable sales in the most recent quarter, a weak performance that was nonetheless an improvement over the dismal 6.1 per cent year over year decline it recorded in the previous quarter.

The third quarter GNP growth was 1 over the preceding quarter.

OIOS and the Joint Inspection Unit are also encouraged by the steps being taken to institute interim performance reporting at the last quarter of the biennium, which will enable the intergovernmental bodies to apply the findings of the programme performance report and evaluation reports to the planning of new biennial budgets.

Globally, incomes grew briskly inflation abated and stock markets boomed. Moreover, the recovery from the last major slump, in the early 1980s, brought about a quarter century of unprecedentedly strong and stable macroeconomic performance.

The planning or analysis phase is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2005 and the new functionality, including supplier performance evaluation, is expected to be completed in the second half of 2006.

Farther to the west, US economic performance is weakening, with first quarter growth a miserly 1.9 well below potential. And job creation faltered in April and May, so the US may reach stall speed by year end.

Almost a quarter, or approximately a quarter of the matter in the universe, is stuff that's invisible.

With real GDP growth around 4 in the first half of the year (though it did fall below 2 in the third quarter), the first arrow has already hit the bull s eye a performance worthy of an A .

a quarter of a millimeter.

It s a quarter past eight.

Data collection took place during the first quarter in nine countries, with two more beginning in the second quarter.

However, as recommended by the Committee, the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session requested the Secretariat to formally conduct preliminary performance assessments in the last quarter of a biennium and use them as reference for formulating the proposed Strategic Framework.

Intel's fourth quarter earnings 10.8 billion.

They advanced to the quarter finals.

The enhanced functionalities are expected to be implemented progressively in Atlas between the fourth quarter of 2005 and second quarter of 2006.

It happened at a quarter past eleven.

Sales fell off in the third quarter.

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They are doing that on a quarter of the resources that are used typically in the Western world a quarter of the resources.

Around a quarter say that they are Republicans.

Corporate earnings in the first quarter improved sharply.

There are a quarter of a million at least those are the ones we know about a quarter of a million species of flowering plants.

The proportion of income received in the last quarter of 2004 was 22 per cent higher than that received in the last quarter of 2003.

Or maybe it was 31 and a quarter percent.

I have my supper at a quarter past seven.

Vendor evaluation (proof of concept) second quarter of 2005

The project started during the third quarter of 2005.

The endorsement by the General Assembly at its fifty ninth session of the OIOS proposal that the Secretariat formally conduct preliminary performance assessments in the last quarter of a biennium to be used as reference for formulating the Strategic Framework goes some way towards correcting that shortcoming.

The Government Performance Project model did not measure performance per se.

But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter.

Twenty one countries computed average prices for the first quarter.

Resources permitting, work will start in the fourth quarter 2006.

Further seminars are foreseen for the first quarter of 2005.

Full implementation is expected during the first quarter of 2006.

Performance measures

Performance measures

Resource performance

Performance indicators

Resource performance

Performance criteria

And then here's the reconstructed performance now with the timings of the performance.

INTERIM REPORT OF THE EXTERNAL AUDITOR, FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE REPORT AND PROGRAMME PERFORMANCE REPORT

So one half, one quarter, one fifth we're good at that.

This is the quarter scale prototype that was functioning in Spain.

10 years ago, it used to cost about a quarter billion.