My single biggest personal improvement as CEO occurred on the day when I stopped being too positive.

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"It means a big improvement in my life, " she said.

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Later, at home, I removed the dressing to bathe my eye, then I covered my good eye with my hand to measure what improvement, if any, had occurred.

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In practice, my jaded senses detected no significant improvement when performing workaday computing tasks.

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There is still much work to be done, but it has been my honor to work towards the improvement of education for all children in this country, from Philadelphia to South Bend, from Columbus to Tacoma, from Spokane to Olympia and now Federal Way.

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In this short time, my high expectations for turnaround and school improvement were greatly surpassed.

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The topic of productivity improvement has fascinated me for the biggest part of my life.

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As my colleague John Dobosz has repeated ad nauseum, the recent improvement in housing markets may be a reason to bet on the homebuilders.

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My question is, during your term of office, will Buffalo see the transit system improvement for this country arrive here in Buffalo?

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My position perhaps more clearly stated is that if all markets were clearing then phenomena such as: lack of educational improvement, globalization, de-industrialization, skew of technological improvement towards information technology, energy shortages, etc would show up in wages.

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