She says that she only has real conversations with her child over Facebook and the phone (an improvement over the classic parenting problem of barely talking to your kids at all).
Professionals generally look at the fundamentals, and while there has been some improvement over the doom and gloom that prevailed last month, their outlook is cautious, if not bearish.
The device can also handle streaming audio and video, a huge improvement over the old dumb terminals and critical for the high-bandwidth future.
With the first weekend of holiday shopping behind us, retail sales are encouraging and an improvement over a year ago.
"We are still on track for quarter over quarter revenue growth and margin improvement" despite the weather snags, Chief Executive ShawnQuShawn Qu said.
"We are still on track for quarter over quarter revenue growth and margin improvement" despite the weather snags, Chief Executive Shawn Qu said.
As Adam Posen, a member of the MPC, said this week, the policy has contributed to preventing a deflationary spiral and encouraged an improvement in credit conditions and asset markets over the past six months.
For whatever reason, the best companies in these countries have superior disclosure, better performance against same industry peers, and better performance improvement over time.
Patients tend to sign up for clinical trials when arthritis is at its most painful, he adds, and improvement in a trial may simply be random improvement over time, he says.
And Tosh claims the battery can last up to ten hours on a charge (11 with an SSD) -- a vast improvement over the five and a half to six hours it promised the last time around.
The undertaken study and analytical report as its result are designed to describe the state of arts education in Ukraine and more vividly define the ways of its improvement over the longer term based on interdepartmental interaction of all governmental and civic institutions concerned for the sake of further fruitful development of national culture.
But that was over two years ago and experts say little improvement has been made since.
Keeping the control of music close by is a hands-down improvement over the limited LED and TV-based displays of many less-expensive competitors.
It would be a departure from the traditional comic headliner, but would also likely be an improvement over the Anne Hathaway and James Franco flop earlier this year.
As cramped and flimsy as this keyboard is, it feels like an improvement over the touchscreen when it comes to pecking out short web searches and answering emails on the go.
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The A8 offers 38 mpg (on the European drive cycle), and an estimated 20 percent improvement over the conventional version of the car.
We are extremely encouraged by Gerard's improvement over the past six days and we now anticipate that he will be discharged from the coronary care unit within the next three to four days.
How that would be an improvement over Sharpay, Jerrika, Luxx and Izander, I can't see.
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Paramedic training today is very robust and provides an infinite improvement in care over the last decade.
It was a vast improvement over the predecessor systems of feudalism and mercantilism.
Try doing this mental exercise over a 4 week period and you should notice an improvement in your short and long term memory.
"We've changed a few things over the past couple of weeks and we saw an improvement in that first half against Newcastle, " he said.
Berlind originally made the proposal in response to a Robbie Bach claim that Microsoft would snatch the coveted number two position from SanDisk after the upcoming holiday season, which would require a daunting 7% improvement in market share and leapfrogging over Creative.
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While I applaud the work of the reformers and think it is a drastic improvement over the status quo, I am increasingly worried they may not be able to find the perfect set of rules that allows centrally planned education systems to succeed at the varied and difficult tasks we require of it, and that anti-reform critics may be, in part, correct.
An inspection by schools inspection body Estyn in 2011 found "systemic failures of leadership and management over a lengthy period" at St Alban's with both the current performance and prospects for improvement "unsatisfactory".
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Retail postpaid churn was 0.84 percent, the lowest in four years, and an improvement of 5 basis points year over year.
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If all works as intended, it could prove to be a huge improvement over the convoluted control knobs on German and Japanese luxury cars.
But the Navy has many other options for generating savings in its budget, and the Ford class is a big improvement over carriers designed before the information revolution began.
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Hopefully, it won't come to that and we'll start to see some improvement over the coming weeks.
While each have their own strengths and weaknesses, together they provide quite an improvement over the status quo.
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