Progress has been slow, but that has been part of the point: the dispute has been in quarantine while relations improved in other ways.

尽管进展缓慢，但至少仍在取得进展：边界争议得以暂时搁置，同时其他方面的关系得到改善。

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More than just an expensive meal, business dinners are important functions where deals can be made, customer relations improved and clients gained.

不仅仅是一顿昂贵的晚餐，商务晚餐具有达成协议，增加与客户关系及获得新客户的功能。

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This important meeting can lead to improved relations and reduced repeat events.

这类重要讨论可以改进关系并能减少重复的事件。

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Russia's Foreign Ministry praised the exchange,saying, "The action was taken in the general context of improved Russian-U.S.relations."

VOA: special.2010.07.10

Business Improved. Miss Cleveland made her secretary the company's first director of public relations.

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I think that Russia and America have very good working relations and can only continue to be improved."

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

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.

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But relations then improved, and the countries agreed to increase trade and ease travel curbs.

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Police-community relations have improved in Los Angeles since the 1992 riots, and crime has dropped sharply.

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