It is essential that both expenditure and cost recovery rates are improved.

UNESCO: Summary of Senior Management Team meeting of 2 July 2012

While the global outlook has improved significantly, the pace and shape of the recovery remain uncertain, the RBI said in a macroeconomic and monetary review released Thursday.

FORBES: Market Scan

Their improvement, on the back of improved private sector balance sheets, suggests a broader recovery is taking hold, according to the report, co-authored by Hatzius and Zach Pandel.

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U.S. and global soil moisture improved throughout the 20th century as our planet warmed in its recovery from the Little Ice Age.

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Despite the recovery officially beginning in the third quarter of 2009, the numbers have improved only slightly.

FORBES: Small Business Credit: Still Hard to Get

Even though both the companies missed market expectations in their latest quarterly results, Home Depot seems to have handled the difficult housing market and slow demand recovery better with successful cost-cutting and efficiency initiatives, store remodels, improved service and better pricing strategies.

FORBES: Lowe's Still Worth $34 Though Trails Home Depot's Recovery