With Abbas, Kerry was talking about ways to improve the Palestinians' living conditions as a confidence-building measure to improve the atmosphere for a resumption in stalled peace talks with Israel.
Imagine how the U.S. ranking were to improve were everyone to measure things the same way.
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Although the agreement is mainly on trade, MEPs want to ensure that it includes clear measure to improve employment opportunities for under-represented workers such as women in the two countries.
Professor Robert Steele, an advisor to the charity Colon Cancer Concern, told BBC News Online any measure which would improve the predicted value of symptoms is to be welcomed.
These providers have tremendous incentive to measure, report and improve quality-of-care, patient experience and cost.
Buyback of bonds could be one probable measure that could help improve liquidity and ensure transmission of monetary policy signals, he added.
Mr Ros hopes to improve on many recent efforts to measure a firm's return over and above its weighted cost of capital.
As we all know, you measure what you want to improve.
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But it turns out that there are even deep disagreements in the early education literature about how to improve quality, or even how to measure quality in a valid, objective, reliable and fair way.
This is a proactive measure which could cut costs and improve health by ensuring patients are receiving appropriate treatment.
Similarly, the census should measure the success of a national campaign to improve India's dismal rates of literacy.
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The shake-up and introduction of more own-brands helped gross margin - a measure of profitability - at JJB's retail division improve from 50.8% last year to 51.7% this year.
"We think if we had a quantitative measure of breast density, that might add to the specificity of the model and really improve prediction for the individual woman, " Kerlikowske says.
Establish baselines against which to measure your progress and milestones, and continue to analyze that data and seek out areas to improve.
Working with the FDA, we have made commitments to improve these areas and, at the appropriate time, we decided to initiate a market action as a precautionary measure in the best interest of consumers who trust and rely on our products.
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