1.   The goals of this movement were to seek minimal economic improvements while preventing campesinos from looking for more radical solutions.

2.   Nevertheless, an OECD report published in the same month estimated that there were signs of a modest economic improvement.

3.   Analysts said the market is beginning to look ahead to a boost from second-half economic improvement.

4.   But economic improvements always weaken repressive regimes, and that alone may be reason enough to lift this symbolic gesture.

5.   But the more rapid move of black families away from marriage -- and two potential earners -- has undermined economic improvements across the board.

6.   But they have yet to see genuine economic improvement, and the town still has the feel of a backwater.

7.   Cullinane said he is more determined than ever to make deals in Northern Ireland, believing that economic improvement eats away at the root of the conflict.

8.   Economic improvement is difficult to measure.

9.   Economic improvement is expected to be a long, slow grind.

10.   He said the past eight years in which Clinton has been president brought economic improvements to the country.