71.   To be sure, the major indexes have improved since early April, when a breakout appeared imminent.

72.   Those who attempt to protect children these days say much has improved since then.

73.   Unfortunately, the attempts at translation have not significantly improved since the last time I looked at it.

74.   While risk controls have improved since Barings collapsed, analysts say big losses are not going to go away.

75.   While hotel fortunes have been slowly improving since the winter, last year was by all accounts a disaster.

76.   White House tacticians say that their vote counts show that their position on the issue in the House has not improved since last year.

77.   While almost everyone agrees that the telephone system has improved since privatization four years ago, it remains unreliable.

78.   Yet during his later years, when Presley was wealthy beyond imagination, his diet did not improve since a childhood of relative poverty.

79.   Political and economic relations between Yugoslavia and the United States have radically improved since the ouster of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic in October of last year.

80.   Papandreou, who was in critical condition over the weekend, has been improving since Christmas and doctors consider his condition to be serious but not life threatening.