And in none of those cases did the plight of workers improve one iota afterward.
Last time I checked, bird watching doesn't do much to spark adrenaline or improve one's fitness.
Often, just a modest tweak can rescue or greatly improve one of your images.
Bodum has managed to improve one of the simplest, most ubiquitous, appliances.
Last time I checked, bird-watching didn't do much to improve one's fitness.
What would your team think if you were to announce that your goal for 2013 was to improve on one of them?
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And a related question: can one improve upon investment performance by adopting an investment cycle different from the (artificial) calendar one on which the mutual fund industry is based?
Now get out there and improve the economy one great business deal at a time.
"I don't think a country will improve if only one gender accelerates in society while the other just stays as it is, " she says.
"Whether it is an idea that will improve transport on one road junction in the city or a scheme that encompasses the whole area, we want to hear it, " he said.
Ever since it was all but razed to the ground by fire in 1871, Chicago has made every effort to use the opportunity to improve itself: one of the first buildings to be reconstructed was its public library.
Vladimir Gusinsky, a media tycoon on bail in Spain and under heavy fire from the Kremlin, has given money to improve conditions at one of Moscow's worst prisons, where he spent a few uncomfortable nights last summer.
Pink-and-green rubber flaps hang on the freshly painted cars to guard against scratches, one of hundreds of thousands of ideas factory workers continually submit to improve Toyota, and one that is now a common feature in car factories worldwide.
Paying off one government loan, however, could improve its chances to receive another one.
My recommendations for how to find these opportunities are based on four observations, the first two about the cloud, one about the way that CIOs and CTOs must improve their management practices, and one about the misunderstood discipline of value-driven Business Process Management.
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Further, these one-on-one scenarios improve decision-making between patient and physician and take out the need for insurance and proof of citizenship.
David Risinger, the pharmaceuticals analyst at Morgan Stanley, made worries about the IMPROVE-IT result one of his key reasons for downgrading Merck shares.
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When administrators took charge of it last week, blame was quickly placed at the feet of Jamie Oliver, the young celebrity chef who began in 2004 a campaign to improve school lunches, one of Canterbury's markets.
The other day I ran into an important U.S. official who pointed out that there's now something of a competition in a number of developing countries to see which one can improve most in the Doing Business annual survey.
There will also, according to Charlie Bolden, NASA's administrator, be a mission to the sun, to study the solar wind, and one to improve the agency's ability to detect and catalogue interesting (but potentially dangerous) asteroids that pass near Earth.
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MediPharma has two drugs derived from Chinese herbs in midstage clinical trials in the U.S., one to improve the potency of radiation therapy on head and neck cancer and the other to treat Crohn's disease, an inflammation of the digestive tract.
One way to improve things would be to spend railways' existing cash more rationally.
Nokia will certainly want to improve this number, and one way of doing it is through job cuts.
Relaxation, meditation and breathing skills can improve the chances of surmounting one's distress.
If we could make one change to improve society, better parenting would be toward the top of the list.
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Harnessing this development could be seen as one way to improve the access to information to the majority of people in the world.
In the end, the technology that can be the most disruptive is one that can improve the quality of life for an aging population.
One way to improve coordination of care is to construct giant health care systems that link together local hospitals and doctors in a seamless network.
Meanwhile, Davenport and Laguina incurred 13 penalties in Sunday's showdown but they were able to improve their overall position by one place as the huge course posed a challenge for the entire field.
Arthur does not address it, but it stands to reason that the greater an amount of complexity we encounter, the more opportunities to improve we sense--one cause, perhaps, for the contemporary afflictions of depression and alienation.
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