Michelin also reaffirmed its earlier guidance that 2007 would see "substantial improvement" over 2006.
With the Federal Reserve firmly in support the housing market continues to show signs of substantial improvement.
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On the surface, that is a substantial improvement, but a look at the components makes it less so.
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It had been somewhere between 20 and 30 years since we had a substantial improvement in fuel economy.
The Russell Group of leading universities welcomed the figures as a substantial improvement.
Mr. Netanyahu's victory may actually bring about a substantial improvement in U.S.-Israeli relations.
The lack of any substantial improvement in the September job report may be the final nudge to galvanize Fed action.
The deal outlined is a substantial improvement on its earlier negotiating stance, with an average 47% cut in EU farm tariffs.
For the third quarter of 2011, only JPMorgan Chase, NA was found to be in need of substantial improvement under the program.
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The FMB said there was a "substantial improvement" in Wales, compared to a -8% balance in the last three months of 2012.
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Still the economic path of Europe does not offer anyone much hope that manufacturing data in March will book a substantial improvement.
"The most notable trends are that a team level there was substantial improvement, and that hasn't been the case over the years, " Lapchick said.
Another area where substantial improvement should be forthcoming as a result of the Republican tsunami involves re-establishing effective controls over the export of strategic technologies .
"I expect we will meet the test for substantial improvement in the outlook for the labor market by this summer, " Mr. Williams said in a speech in Los Angeles.
This would be a substantial improvement, equivalent broadly to reducing the amount of corruption in China to that of Hong Kong, or from that in Argentina to the amount in Spain.
"We are already seeing the benefits of this investment, for example at St Andrews and Nairn, and it will bring substantial improvement to the Scottish coastline in the future, " the minister said.
If the revised FS-X deal represents a substantial improvement over the original agreement, it nonetheless amounts to a vastly inferior arrangement for providing for Japan's defense than would outright Japanese procurement of American weapon systems.
Despite a substantial improvement in the unemployment rate, which fell to 7.8%, its lowest level since Barack Obama took the presidency, and a housing market that appears to have bottomed out, the Fed remained cautious.
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This contract is where the public sector pays the private sector to secure a substantial improvement in the way of life for a specific group, in order to reduce the public sector's costs in the long-run.
Orlando experienced a similar trend with current distressed sales representing 25% of total sales, a substantial improvement over the rate of 49% at the start of the year, and below the high of over 54% seen in mid-2009.
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Both Ben Bernanke and vice chairwoman Janet Yellen have made it clear QE will remained tied to a substantial improvement in labor conditions, which should at least include continued payroll growth and an improvement in hiring, the quit rate, and real GDP.
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Severstal's billionaire controlling shareholder and Chairman, Alexei Mordashov, on Wednesday proposed to the Arcelor board a substantial improvement in the terms of the two steelmakers' merger agreement--a sweetening, it is hoped, that will ward off ad hominem attacks from Arcelor shareholders.
Between the improved conversion efficiencies, manufacturing gains, decreased inverter costs and improvements in other balance of system (BOS) costs, there is still room for substantial price improvement.
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"Whilst there are many dedicated and hard working staff at Maghaberry, there is substantial room for improvement and I have already made clear to the new governor that there has to be a step-change in the way the service is delivered at this prison, " he said.
Sprint's improvement was driven in part by substantial gains in two aspects of the survey.
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In fact, for some benchmarks deemed satisfactory there were warnings that more improvement was needed, or that progress was being made only with substantial assistance from U.S. forces.
Although round numbers like 8 percent become psychological barriers in finance and economics, the 0.3 percent improvement that drove the unemployment rate below 8.0 percent is probably not substantial enough to have much of a ripple effect, either on the economy or the election.
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