1.   As the economic climate gradually improves, this process will be accelerated through an effective partnership between the public and private sectors.

2.   All this happened as the business climate was not improving.

3.   But if the investment climate does not improve, expect the cartoonists to have fun for a good while yet.

4.   But the U.S. and European officials said they left their meetings with little hope that the political climate would improve.

5.   Friday, Cisco gave no additional financial guidance to analysts, other than to say it could not predict when the business climate would improve.

6.   Hernandez said savvy degree decisions are among the reasons the job-search climate has improved.

7.   Naturally the political climate would improve if more Democrats and Republicans actually liked each other.

8.   Salmasi, however, said the climate would improve now that Sprint and Primeco Personal Communications LP have successfully inaugurated their services.

9.   Still, Nabawy is not alone in sensing that the climate has somewhat improved for Muslims in general and for Arabs in particular.