41.   Sundays are such a wash for the WB that his modest program is a vast improvement on its usual programming.

42.   Textbooks in the new democracies are vast improvements over the propaganda volumes that preceded them.

43.   That is a vast improvement over what was there last season.

44.   That is a vast improvement, but how stable is it?

45.   The Clinton emphasis on trade is a vast improvement over the policies of past administrations, which often openly backed dictatorship and military rule.

46.   The Dodgers want vast improvements to Dodgertown, including construction of a cloverleaf four-field practice facility on what is now a nine-hole golf course.

47.   The complementary sherry she mentioned, for instance, is a vast improvement over the piddling pillow mint offered in other establishments.

48.   The government proposal does not go far enough, but it is a vast improvement over the current system, which shields an abusive military.

49.   The movie is a vast improvement over the book.

50.   The Mavs, as a team, have also benefited due to the vast improvement under Don Nelson the past two seasons.