Shares of Ford Motors have rallied more than 20% in the past three months on the back of solid North American operations, some improvement in Europe and surging sales in China.

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On the Improvement side, we focus on continuous improvement of our operations.

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Evidence Based practitioners assume there are specific technical operations that are responsible for client improvement, that there are unique ingredients in specific treatment models or techniques that produce different effects with different disorders.

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What is more, according to public documents chronicling Anne Arundel Public Schools' dismal experience with CSP, there is significant evidence of chronic violations of federal, state and local policies and regulations throughout its six years of operations, with little or inconsistent improvement, reflecting deficiencies in fiscal responsibility and organizational viability.

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Management also sees some signs of stabilization in operations, though have not seen signs of improvement.

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Many companies start with measuring how much room they have for improvement by benchmarking their fuel purchasing operations.

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The first quarter of 1999 showed more of an improvement, with the net income on continuing operations, at 469m guilders, up 46% on the previous year.

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This year, baggage gets a major SWAT team improvement effort, said Greg Wells, senior vice president of operations.

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Donald Berwick, a Harvard Medical School professor and chief executive of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, says as much as 40% of U.S. medical spending is squandered on inefficient operations and unnecessary overhead.

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