If you improve by 3% but competitors are improving by 5%, you're actually becoming less competitive.
The trust was ordered to improve by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after its response times deteriorated.
He said he hoped things would improve by the end of the season.
Obama inherited a credit and banking bust that may only marginally improve by the time he faces voters next year.
While we believe this situation will improve by the end of the quarter, it will have an impact on our third quarter results.
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At the last count, in July, the number of companies expecting business conditions to worsen outweighed the number expecting things to improve by 44%.
Ireland's Damian Mooney did improve by 15 shots on his first round, but scores of 92 and 77 were hardly anything to write home about.
The Americans wondered if their chances might improve by sending a chef experienced in cooking competitions, somebody accustomed to the long preparation the Bocuse d'Or requires.
In the glory days, young LBO analysts screened for companies that were the best targets to approach, or the best industries to improve by applying simple cookie cutter efficiencies.
No one knows if the Mets can spend any money to improve by adding players or keeping the ones they have like shortstop Jose Reyes, entering the final year of his contract.
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In a conference week peppered with dire warnings, the party's former Treasury spokesman Lord Oakeshott suggested that if the economy does not improve by the time of the next election, the government and the Lib Dems could be "slaughtered".
But not everyone sees the bigger picture -- that the global economy will improve by moving away from dependence on fossil fuel, that investments in renewable energy can create jobs and that a new revolution is needed to replace the outdated Industrial Revolution.
He says they improve speed by a factor of 10, and cuts latency time in half.
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The key ingredient is said to improve skin by setting off an elaborate chain reaction.
The booklets aim to improve teaching by "shifting it away from a narrow emphasis on skills".
Microsoft has been devising tools to improve productivity by working out what people are doing.
The agreement stands to greatly improve relations by encouraging greater transparency, accountability, property rights, and customs enforcement.
In fact, Bamford is full of ideas on how to improve Sense by adding new experiences and evolving others.
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During the campaign, Mr Sata promised to cut taxes and improve services by building more schools and health clinics.
This shift gave people an incentive to improve productivity by enhancing agricultural technology.
This is a proactive measure which could cut costs and improve health by ensuring patients are receiving appropriate treatment.
Moreover, adds Mercer's Haig Nalbantian, American evidence implies that employee share-ownership schemes are unlikely to improve productivity by themselves.
The Doosan mantra is to improve lives by bringing electricity and water to billions in short supply of both.
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Also, the owner is going to invest in machinery which will improve productivity by controlling costs as the company grows.
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The Joint Committee of Primary Care Trusts (JCPCT) said it wanted to improve services by creating fewer but larger surgical centres.
They might also usefully improve transport by, say, building bridges over rivers prone to flooding, which would cut out rapacious middlemen.
He isn't signed beyond this season, but even if he doesn't stay, he's helped Lopez improve simply by pushing him in practice.
But one of the ways in which America can improve is by increasing the number of graduates in science and engineering.
Since then Vietnam has announced a program of "people's mastery at the grassroots level" designed to improve governance by improving financial transparency.
GM, Ford and Chrysler tried to improve: by 2006 they had almost caught up with Japanese standards of efficiency and even quality.
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