Much of this forecast hinges on housing making an improvement, Wade from Schroders says.
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Former South African President Nelson Mandela is making "steady improvement" under treatment for pneumonia, his doctors have said.
Mr Zuma said on Thursday the ex-president was making "continuous improvement".
Mr Poots said that he recognised the personal commitment that Mr Donaghy had brought in his time as chief executive of the Northern trust, and the efforts he had been making to secure improvement.
Self-evaluation was an improvement, making schools look hard at how they were performing, she said.
In the vast U.S., with its competing data standards, making even this limited improvement a reality will be an expensive and complicated proposition.
Contribute to the maintenance of the post establishment system, making recommendations for areas of improvement.
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Likewise, performance metrics are hard to come by in knowledge work, making it challenging to manage improvement efforts (which often lack a clear owner in the first place).
The system, though, was given a lukewarm reception by players, with a poll by world players' union Fifpro finding that 70% of club captains who had competed in the group stages of last season's Europa League had found no improvement in decision making.
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Generally, however, the IRS agreed with the IG's five recommendations for improvement--including making sure that the IRS employee authorizing each refund is listed in electronic records.
"We see another opportunity for a billion-euro improvement... by making products that are more competitive, " Mr van Houten told the BBC.
The other key improvement, Iskold says, is making rewards for watching television more meaningful.
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In a sense, StreamWork applies the Lean Manufacturing concept of standardizing work to the process of decision making, which makes a variety of continuous improvement processes possible.
And because a lot of your public schools opened themselves up to new ideas and innovative reforms, we're actually seeing an improvement in overall achievement that is making the city a model for reform nationwide.
The Dow fell 80 points on Wednesday after Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said a tapering off of asset purchases could begin "in the next few" meetings of the central bank's policy-making committee, should its members see sustained improvement in the labor market.
This process of a famous international company slowly opening up and making its corporate social responsibility ( CSR) improvement efforts transparent echoes the experience of U.S.-based sportswear company Nike, which became infamous in the 1990s for its exploitative manufacturing practices, including the use of sweatshops and child labor.
For example, a CEO may decide that the following goals are essential: Increasing products or pipeline, improving distribution channels, making cost structures flexible to cyclicality, accelerating quality improvement, and establishing market leadership in a given segment or geography.
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Unless they are coming in to an urgent turnaround situation or have a specific mandate for improvement, most managers will therefore wait before making significant changes.
The measure may still be distorted by recent cold weather and a Monday holiday, however, making analysts hesitant to use the low reading as a solid indication of improvement.
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But Walsall Council said in the next few weeks it was likely to receive a type of improvement notice from the government showing it had taken steps towards making children's services better.
With an unprecedented number of people making more money than ever, the demand for all things that signal an improvement in status is gargantuan.
Learn to own failures without making excuses, and then quickly begin focusing on solutions to increase the probability for improvement.
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White House spokesman Tony Snow noted the president's report shows improvement since July, when the Iraqi government was found not to be making satisfactory progress on "de-Baathification" -- allowing officials from Saddam Hussein's Baath Party back into the government.
It is making efforts to enhance its credibility in urban and rural community in order to contribute to the improvement of social conditions necessary to move forward with the project.
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You've got ideas that are showing concrete results in improvement, not in absolute test scores, but in the progress that that school is making, we're going to fund those improvements.
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At 19 he went to London to study precision-instrument making, then worked for the University of Glasgow, where he devised his first major steam engine improvement: a separate, exterior condenser.
'promote international cooperation and to coordinate programmes in research, services and capacity building, in order to learn more about the nature and resources of the ocean and coastal areas and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of management, sustainable development and protection of the marine environment and the decision-making process of its Member States'.
It's more compact than the 5D and even the 7D, an APS-C camera, weighing in at 690 grams -- a 20-percent decrease from that larger pro model. 20 percent may not sound like a tremendous improvement, but it's certainly noticeable, boosting the 6D's versatility, and making it an ideal choice for street and travel photography.
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