1.   Life has improved and returned to normal.

2.   And the current situation offers no prospect that life will improve.

3.   Breathe deeply, people, our lives have just improved.

4.   But life gradually improved.

5.   By any measure, life has improved.

6.   Despite the complaints heard from Berlin to Leipzig, many easterners acknowledge that life in general has improved.

7.   East German workers, most of whom have been with TRO for decades, had expected their lives to improve once the plant was taken over by AEG.

8.   Even in Badui, the peasants acknowledge that for all their difficulties with death and disease, their lives have improved dramatically.

9.   Expectations are running high that life will improve swiftly.

10.   For some, the murder was an ugly reminder that even though life has improved on the avenue, the potential for menace remains.