Event planners hope to avoid a 'repeat performance' of last year's problems. [=hope that last year's problems will not happen again this year]
a bicyclist who was disqualified for taking 'performance'-enhancing drugs [=drugs that improve your ability to do something]
How has the company's stock 'performance' been? [=has the value of the company's stock been increasing/decreasing?]
(..) for another two years and then, I'm rich as fuck and I got my house in Aspen! But do you have any concerns about the performance of the underlying securitizations? It's easy to see that delinquencies, eh, default-rates are on the rise right now! Could you please stop being such a buzz-kill dude! (..)2015 The Big Short