11.   Business improved immediately.

12.   Business improved in December.

13.   Business improves anytime companies commit more dollars to exploration and production.

14.   Business has improved.

15.   Business has especially improved in Florida, where the probe investigation is concentrated, Chairman and Chief Executive Bruce Feldman said today.

16.   Business will improve in the second quarter of the year, Hoechst said.

17.   Business is improving for many transporters.

18.   But sometimes business never improves, and the deception becomes more and more difficult to disguise.

19.   But slashing prices is no guarantee that business will improve.

20.   But Weisbrod said business might improve now that the Statue of Liberty is once again open to tourists and because local transportation has been steadily improving.