Firms hit by strike action in the last few months include South West Trains, carmaker Vauxhall, and post office operator Consignia, which in June warned that jobs would go unless industrial relations improved.
But relations then improved, and the countries agreed to increase trade and ease travel curbs.
Police-community relations have improved in Los Angeles since the 1992 riots, and crime has dropped sharply.
In recent months, relations have improved dramatically between the Turks and the Iraqi Kurds.
Pakistani officials believe they have an understanding with U.S. officials to halt the strikes until relations have improved.
The cricket series is the most telling symbol of how much the two countries' relations have improved since then.
But two years later, while BP has relinquished some control, it remains a 50 percent owner and relations have improved.
In 2010, the companies signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding in December to establish an exploration joint venture in China signaling that relations had improved.
Relations have improved vastly with the Ministry of Finance.
Relations have improved greatly since, but mutual wariness persists.
And relations have improved since then.
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He also said he would work for improved relations with the U.S., India and Afghanistan.
The nuclear issue is not the only obstacle standing in the way of improved relations.
Mark Aaron, Tiffany vice president of investor relations, confirms improved sales of blue sapphire rings, especially in Europe.
Germany has other foreign-policy priorities besides France, such as improved relations with Poland and other central European countries.
How do you know that you're seeing improved relations in the way that affects the lives of everyday Americans?
The motion says it "welcomes the improved relations with the Republic of Ireland".
Relations have also improved with Italy and Greece, Albania's biggest investors and trading partners, and host to many Albanian migrant workers.
With Rabin's death, the prospects for improved relations with Syria and Lebanon, considered the next phase in the peace process, have dimmed.
The reopening of that bus route was itself evidence of improved relations.
Airlines say a more-subtle change comes from improved relations with air-traffic controllers.
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But Mr Street, who has alienated gay voters in the past, has improved relations so much that gay leaders have endorsed him this time.
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France has argued the ban is "anachronistic", given the improved relations between Beijing and the EU - and had wanted the ban lifted by last month.
As she grew older she was asked, often and almost obsessively, how much race relations had truly improved in America since the passing of the civil-rights laws.
Besides winning Indonesia a seat on the United Nations' new human-rights body, Mr Yudhoyono's main foreign-policy achievement so far has been improved relations with the United States.
In other words, the improved relations rest on mutual convenience.
Some major British oil and gas companies, bidding for highly competitive contracts with the country, could benefit from improved relations between Libya and the UK following Megrahi's release, our correspondent says.
But American-German relations, while improved, are still rather wooden.
My government will continue to work in partnership with business, and welcome the improved relations between business and trade unions, who worked together in informing the government's proposals for fairness at work.
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