1.   About the Families Investigators have long linked unfavorable family situations with poor academic performance.

2.   But still these are all proximate causes of poor performance.

3.   Even when monitoring can be done effectively, disciplining employees for poor performance is itself costly.

4.   How do you explain this poor economic performance over the last few years?

5.   In self-defeating organizations, poor performance comes to resemble this sort of eternally perpetuating cycle.

6.   It does not make sense to restrict valuable opportunities due to poor performance in school.

7.   Most of the guilt for his poor academic performance lies with him.

8.   Participation in one set of activities was often used to explain poor performance in other activities.

9.   Poverty depressed the black college-attendance rate, but so did low high school graduation rates and poor performance on standardized tests.

10.   The Office of Government Commerce was set up last April to draw a line under this relatively poor performance.