The state of Lagos (in which Lagos city is situated) has been improving its tax collection.
Bell says the reception Intel has been getting from handset makers has been improving.
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Citi disagrees: It says it has reduced reserves in recent quarters because credit quality has been improving.
"Generally, Thames water quality has been improving - the fish are returning, " explained Bristol's Dr Nicholas Howden.
Alpha among active Fixed Income Managers (taxable and tax-exempt) has been improving over the past five years.
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The mix of CPUs has been improving over past couple of years and this could improve further.
The economic news has been improving over the past few months, consistent with a turnaround in its economy.
Although the safety situation has been improving in both countries over the past couple years, they are still hotspots for crime.
Since the 2008 market crash, MIPS Technologies has been improving its balance sheet.
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For the last three years, revenue has been falling, though it has been improving for the last three quarters.
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The health of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who missed his inauguration last week, has been improving, the government says.
Analyst sentiment has been improving recently, as the number of buy ratings has risen slightly over the past three months.
The economic data has been improving overall for the past few weeks, and last week there were several encouraging reports.
Even though Subbaraman places that chance of a hard landing at one-in-three, he noted the situation has been improving since June 2011.
With more moisture evaporating from the oceans and falling over the land as rain, global soil moisture has been improving for more than a century.
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Timeshares in general has been under pressure in recent years due to defaults and diminished availability of receivables financing, but that has been improving recently.
Since then the Royal Mail has been improving efficiency and profits.
Ltd. (GEWP), a for-profit company, has been improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of small farmers and their families by offering affordable water irrigation tools.
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However, the overall economy has been improving, and perhaps the number will jump up again and make the millions of dollars in advertising worth it to those companies.
Wednesday's deal may not represent a giant windfall, but AIG has been improving over the past year under Benmosche's leadership, as demonstrated by the firm's recent second-quarter results.
With major countries promoting LED lighting, LED lumen efficiency has been improving and the LED lighting prices have come down over the years, making it an affordable alternative and marking a shift from traditional (incandescent and fluorescent) options to LEDs.
Obviously, such data is sobering for those, like Anderson, who believe the industry pipeline has gradually been improving.
He has also been improving relations with bottlers, without whom nothing would happen.
Meanwhile, the quality of credit-card loans has been broadly improving this year.
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The focus for years has been on improving fuel consumption efficiency.
Russian airline safety has been steadily improving, however, despite a decline immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, according to aviation expert David Learmount of Flight International magazine.
He also highlighted Las Vegas Sands, which has been steadily improving ROI through its Chinese purchasing subsidiary and by the success of its new Tao and Blue Man Group units in Las Vegas.
The company has been gradually improving Maps, but as recently as this month Australian police complained that an Apple Maps glitch could endanger motorists by mislocating a city of 30, 000 people in the middle of the outback.
He also highlighted Las Vegas Sands (nyse: LVS - news - people ), which has been steadily improving ROI through its Chinese purchasing subsidiary and by the success of its new Tao and Blue Man Group units in Las Vegas.
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