Word: underperforming
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Government auditors have recently finished a review of the Pentagon's nuclear-war-fighting communications satellites and--whoops!--it seems that they underperform. A primary component of the costly, top-secret Milstar satellites is the Military Commanders' Voice Conference Network. That's mil-speak for telephone links between the President and his senior military commanders...
...might make friends in an investment club, and you might learn something about stock picking, but you'll probably pay a price in lower returns on your investment. Fully 60% of investment clubs regularly underperform the stock market, according to a new study from UC Davis. Your returns will be higher in an actively managed mutual fund, and higher still in a broad index fund...
Government auditors have recently finished a review of the Pentagon's nuclear-war-fighting communications satellites and -- whoops! -- it seems that they underperform. A primary component of the costly, top-secret Milstar satellites is the Military Commanders' Voice Conference Network. That's mil-speak for telephone links between the President and his senior military commanders...
...There is broad consensus that standardized test scores can be valuable as one factor, among several, in helping to assess candidates for admission.... The correlation between SAT scores and future academic success, however, is far from exact. It is not uncommon for individuals to outperform (or underperform) what the tests 'predict'--often by significant margins. In addition, the predictive power of the tests diminishes over time...