Letting agents fees, advertising, maintenance costs (but not improvement costs) and, in certain cases, mortgage interest payments, are all examples of expenses that can be offset.
Trials carried out by L'Oreal showed the average improvement was not noticeable to the user, and that half of those using the product had not registered the improvement claimed, the ASA said.
But the key is it's not an improvement over gasoline as has been suggested.
In developing standards, one is good, the creation of two or more or more standards is not an improvement.
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The minutes of the last FOMC meeting showed members believe that further quantitative easing of monetary policy will be required if the U.S. economy does not show improvement soon.
Patients in a phase III trial for tarenflurbil, a drug that showed promise in an earlier phase II trial, did not experience improvement in cognition or daily function compared with those who received a placebo, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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In the 2.0 Era, these tools experienced a quantum leap forward, not an incremental improvement.
"Progress is not always an improvement, " said Marc Aronson, president of the Pennsylvania Association of Notaries.
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They identified education as a profession where labor productivity was not amenable to improvement through technological advance.
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In reality, tax policies that diminish the incentives and capacities of innovators, business owners and investors will not spur economic improvement.
Being in the belly of the beast would not seem an improvement of circumstance, but it affords Jonah a chance for reflection.
They will not be driving improvement like they did in the past.
Daisuke Karakama, market economist at Mizuho Corporate Bank, said he does not expect much improvement in prices over the next six to 12 months.
One standard is good, two standards do not constitute an improvement.
Teaching unions say academy status does not automatically mean improvement.
And for a side that went into the game having kept only one clean sheet all season, Wolves showed tremendous resilience, not to say improvement, to hang on to their lead.
The government has said it intends to offer support for underperforming schools, but has threatened to use powers to force them to become academies if they do not produce effective improvement plans.
The problem is, all that data is still buried in an electronic medical recording system that is slowing us down, is not yet showing improvement in care, and is still largely fragmented and in its infancy.
The end result is that higher financial aid does not produce an improvement in college affordability but rather an increased ability on the parts of colleges to fund other programs which are not related to fulfilling their educational missions.
If those same schools do not register significant improvement after three years, however, they stand to see much of their federal money stripped away and given to parents, who could choose to have their children tutored, or send them to charter schools or to better-performing public facilities.
That the 2nd quarter did not show an improvement over the 1st quarter, as originally expected, and forecasts had to be lowered so significantly during the quarter, and still the growth came in lower, does not bode well for the extent of the expected second half slowdown.
When a hurricane comes, count on large-cap investors to snap up stocks of not only home improvement companies, but also discount retailers (everyone's running for flashlights and other supplies and will be replacing losses from flood damage), home builders (all those houses need to be rebuilt) and oil companies (damage to refineries down in the Gulf sparks supply worries and kicks up prices).
If not, then the improvement of the larger screen may actually be a compromise that will not work equally well for all users.
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Management also sees some signs of stabilization in operations, though have not seen signs of improvement.
And overcapacity is down to about 155%, which may not sound like an improvement but is.
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