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im proohv muhnt

  • n  a change for the better; progress in development
  • n  the act of improving something
    their improvements increased the value of the property
  • n  a condition superior to an earlier condition
    the new school represents a great improvement

  • He lays his success chiefly to the electric current, thinks it strengthens and stimulates eye muscles and nerves, that it effects lasting improvementsome boys have continued .
  • Through his self-improvement tips for cultivating personal virtues and through his civic-improvement schemes for furthering the common good, he helped to create, and to celebrate .
  • Significant improvement 53% No significant improvement 44% No opinion .
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  • Elizardo Sanchez in Independent
    These liberations will not mean a significant improvement in the terrible situation of human rights that exists in Cuba,he said. "It's opening the prisons a little, and not to everyone."
  • Donald Kohn in International Herald Tribune
    Kohn noted that "the increased turbulence of recent weeks partly reversed some of the improvement in market functioning over the late part of September and in October."
  • Ben Bernanke in International Herald Tribune
    Conditions in financial markets have shown some improvement since the worst of the storm in mid-August, but a full recovery of market functioning is likely to take time, and we may well see some setbacks,Bernanke said in a speech to the New...

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