21.   Black mothers increasingly are receiving prenatal care and schools are focusing more resources on at-risk students, factors cited as improving the lot of African American youth in Texas.

22.   Both Camarota and Pachon agreed that immigrants already in the United States need increased education and job-training opportunities to improve their lot.

23.   A poor Mexican fisherman finds a wondrous pearl that he believes will improve the lot of his family.

24.   Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman has made increased trade her focus, arguing that U.S. farmers would only improve their lot by reaching much more of the global market.

25.   Bush, to be sure, has signed several laws designed to improve the lot of consumers dealing with health-care providers and insurance networks.

26.   But after years of protest, residents are now seeing action to improve their lot.

27.   But European hyperbole did not improve the lot of Africans who were thrown into the developing slave trade.

28.   But in doing so, this Robespierre of the conservative revolution mistakenly buys into a belief that government can improve our lot by protecting us more.

29.   But state lawmakers have a number of chances this session to improve their lot, child advocates said.

30.   But Rodriguez was Hard-pressed to remember a specific service the Samper government had offered to improve his lot.