1.   Both teams had plausible excuses for their mostly erratic performances.

2.   Daniel Marx, the secretary of finance, told worried investors at the Council of the Americas about the erratic performance of many financial markets lately.

3.   Despite high grades for qualilty products, the company bumped through years of inconstant earnings and erratic stock performance.

4.   Galileo survived the encounter, but not without some radiation hits causing erratic performance of spacecraft electronics.

5.   In part, this is because after an erratic performance as president, Walesa remains unpopular.

6.   It wants to say so much that it has trouble articulating it, and it suffers from awkward direction and erratic performances.

7.   Jackson also stuck with Rodman, despite his erratic performance in the series.

8.   Massengale had been let go by the Fox Sports News show because of erratic on-air performance.

9.   Nor Todd Worrell, who shook off a recent spell of erratic performances to work the ninth for his ninth save.

10.   The delays have angered segments of the computer industry, the press and savvy computer users tired of erratic performance from earlier versions of Windows.