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Rental volatility stable — Good tenant management key The South African (SA) property rental market has had an interesting and surprising performance in 2016 so...

The South African (SA) property rental market has had an interesting and surprising performance in 2016 so far.

After a surprising performance in the 1936 Olympics, Louis enlists in the Air Force in 1941.

Since the election there's been a lot of jawing in Manhattan cable news studios about Trump's surprising performance in once solid - blue counties of the old industrial Midwest, and plenty of fretting about how «coastal elites» have lost touch with the American core.

Manchester City and Paris Saint - Germain are set to finish their Champions League quarterfinal grudge match in England, with the aggregate score at 2 - 2 after Manchester's surprising performance in Paris a week ago.

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Those subjects who were hungry ended up making decisions that were advantageous in the long run, which the researchers found slightly surprising as previous research has shown that hunger can decrease one's cognitive performance.

Western Australia reported a surprise increase in new car sales last month, boosted by strong performances by Toyota and Hyundai.

And at last year's holiday party, we surprised team members with a live, one - hour performance by Nelly in 2016.

But you might be surprised to learn they all rewarded outstanding performance through the issuance of additional stock options (or as is now the case, RSUs) in a similar way.

But the iPhone's poor performance overshadowed a couple of other more positive surprises: iPad sales weren't as bad as they could have been and sales in Apple's «Other Products» division, which includes the Apple TV set - top box, Apple Watch, and Beats headphones, jumped after a string of declines.

Shares in AMS, which provides the facial recognition technology used in Apple's iPhones, jumped 7 percent after Apple surprised the market with solid iPhone X sales, confounding fears of a much weaker performance.

A successful Super Bowl Snickers commercial in which White takes a particularly brutal tackle, a surprise Golden Girls resurgence and a zany performance in the Sandra Bullock summer rom - com The Proposal all had whetted the public's appetite for White.

And while it's not entirely surprising that the market would reward companies keeping costs in check, the divergence in performance highlights a broader theme: Investors see inflation rising in the near future, and want to be positioned accordingly.

You may be surprised at what your renewed efforts might yield in the way of business performance, which will only give you leverage when a buyer does come knocking.

To no one's surprise, Sarah Paulson took home the Emmy for best actress in a miniseries for her performance as Marcia Clark, head prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, in «American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson.»

Barclays» James Anstead and Nicolas Champ: «Given ASDA's weak sales performance - and difficult market positioning in a world where the discounters have successfully occupied the price end of the market - we think it would hardly be surprising that Wal - Mart could be open to considering options for its UK business.

If you ask the average American, he would be surprised to find out that the U.S. economy's performance is best in class.

That year hedge fund performance suffered as managers were surprised by events like a plunge in oil prices, Brexit and the U.S. election.

It should be no surprise that those with low buy in and low performance will quickly find the door, but the hard decision (and your employees see this) is showing the door to a high performer with a bad attitude.

The stock's strong performance so far in 2016 can be attributed in part to delivering positive earnings surprises in a number of recent quarters.

That's a surprise, considering that the company offered «performance bonuses» in China and Russia.

What might be surprising is that the stock selection performance depicted above was my primary source of disappointment last year, and largely explains the tepid returns achieved by the Strategic Growth Fund in 2006.

It should therefore be less of a surprise to discover that if you had invested # 1,000 in the Trust 10 years ago, it would now be worth # 5,281, one of the best performances over the period (an investment of # 1,000 in an ETF tracking the FTSE All - Share index meanwhile would be worth # 1,686 over the same period.

Investors were cautious after a largely weak performance on Wall Street on Thursday as some disappointing earnings reports offset strong economic data, while bond yields slid after a surprising slowdown in eurozone inflation.

Investors were cautious after a largely weak performance on Wall Street overnight as some disappointing earnings reports offset strong economic data, while bond yields slid after a surprising slowdown in euro zone inflation.

After Jared Leto's unmemorable Suicide Squad performance, no huge surprise that DC is reportedly looking to cast someone new in the role.

«While some observers may express surprise at the consistency given the well - known risks, our performance in actual fact bears remarkable resemblance to the performance of the ABARES benchmark that the portfolio design sought to emulate.»

Mr Woolford and his team have been closely scrutinising the latest wine industry sales data for the main markets in which Treasury operates and concluded that the company's Asian performance «could surprise on the upside» with industry - wide Australian red wine volumes to China up 57 per cent in May.

gutted, not surprised, beat in every position, not one good performance, that hazard running thru the whole defense goal summed it up, please do nt think if we just bring back these same players we will win next year... time to get rid of those hanging around 4 - 5 seasons producing nothing....

This confidence was clearly on show when the Gunners dismantled Man United in the space of 20 minutes at the weekend, and our midfield general was not surprised by their performance.

Given the Women's Blues exceptional performance last season, placing them as one of the best teams in the University, we were very proud and not too surprised to see them win the hotly - contested «Team of the Year» Award at the Annual University Sports Awards.

If there's an adjustment period in his performance, no one should be surprised.

The final two players in contention are Arjen Robben, who is the only Netherlands player to be considered despite their run to the semi-finals, and James Rodriguez — who will lift the Golden Boot award if neither Thomas Muller or Lionel Messi score in the final after a stunning series of performances for surprise packages Colombia.

Pogba played a major role in United's surprise win at Manchester City at the weekend, scoring two goals to put in perhaps his most influential performance in a United shirt to date.

We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.

This young lad might be a surprised to a few of you, yet his performances alone in recent weeks have earned him a spot in our team.

Still, Boston was in first place because of surprising performances from unheralded pitchers Greg Harris, Dana Kiecker and Wes Gardner.

His performances suggest he will be a key player for BVB in the upcoming campaign and it would be of no surprise if they fight tooth and nail to keep hold of one of their prized assets.

After losing games in their tournament opener as a four or five seed in 2008, 2010 and 2011, the Commodores shouldn't have been surprised to hear so many people predicting yet another one - and - done performance in 2012.

It has been a season of record - breaking for Messi, who has become the all - time top scorer in this tournament, as well as in La Liga, and it won't surprise you to see that the Argentine's performances in terms of goals per game for Barca in Europe's top club competition is pretty good.

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Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

Monreal often gave good performance in each position he was assigned to, so I am not surprised with his performance in the FA Cup Final.

Yet If Arsenal want the best out of him then Wenger must show serious trust in his abilities even after Xhaka's return because part of Elneny's slight turbulence in form this season has been due to the addition of Xhaka who's presence seriously affected Elneny's moral and those who deep into things would've noticed the difference between last years Elneny (prior to Xhaka's acquisition) and this year's Elneny with majority of games Elneny coming off the bench yet the very last few games he started before the AFCON have boosted his confidence back and that very much reflected on his last performances before leaving to an extent that surprised quite a few!!

@Admin I believe many here will give your suggestion the thumbs down but I actually thought Arsenal could have employed Kos as DM, and Mert and Gabriel at CB in the past fortnight when we played Olympiakos and then Man City... As it turn out we didn't need to, as Flamini surprised many of us with his good performance....

Many felt it was a surprise that Campbell left on loan this summer and personally I felt it was the wrong decision given his performances in an Arsenal shirt last season.

Let's get real here.It is very unlikely that ANY professional player will ever say anything derogatory about a teammate that has just left the club.If Jack had said about Coq - «Grew up playing with him in the Youth Team and have fond memories of a player they though he had very limited ability he always gave his all.Very surprised and disappointed the club never invested in a World Class defensive midfielder that we have quite obviously been lacking for a number of seasons and would no doubt have improved the defensive weakness we have shown over a number of seasons» we would have echoed his thoughts entirely.If he had said about Theo - «A player who should have been so much better than he ended up being.He had everything needed to be a prolific player for our club but I can understand the fans frustrations with his continued lack - lustre performances and total lack of a football brain.I think this is best explained by the managers preference to play a player of such limited ability as Alex Iwobi in front of Theo pretty much says it all» we again would have all nodded our agreement.Although Jack never mentioned Alexis Sanchez I would imagine something along the lines of «If the Manager had not persisted with players with such limited ability such as Francis and Theo and instead bought the world class players needed into the club then Sanchez would still most likely be here.The fans must wonder what the hell goes on at the club as they pay fortunes for the privalage of following our club but it seems the millions generated ends up purchasing a new Texas Ranch for the Owner or in a yearly renumeration of # 9million pounds to our manager».

The biggest surprise is that the Indians» pitching staff has matched that performance: It's fourth in the AL in ERA (3.49) with almost the same cast of characters that ranked 11th a year ago.

Given the performance of the road team in this rivalry, we're not surprised to see this line movement.

Dallas» defense has surprised plenty this year and getting a professional starter - grade performance from a rookie in a tight spot adds to the intrigue.