1.   Competition between very clever people to be first with the best answers yields the progress on which technological improvement depends.

2.   Financial analysis and management have been revolutionized by technological improvements in personal computers and data processing equipment.

3.   Owing to reclamation, technological improvements and urbanization, agricultural productivity and the level of production rose during the period.

4.   This is only partly attributable to technological improvements.

5.   And Linkshare is just one of many companies now receiving patents that cover not just narrow technological improvements, but widespread techniques for doing business.

6.   Army officials, however, disputed the report and said the GAO miscalculated cost estimates and underestimated the technological improvements Comanche will bring to the battlefield.

7.   But all the technological improvements are not limited to vans and trucks.

8.   But Hall said the agency needs to move faster on other fronts, including technological improvements.

9.   But the Very Large Array could be better, astronomers say, and a program of technological improvements and eventual expansion has just begun.

10.   But the Very Large Array could be better, astronomers say, and a program of technological improvements and eventual expansion is underway to make it so.