21.   Still, Zandi and most of his colleagues are looking for gradual economic improvement beginning no later than the fourth quarter of the year.

22.   Stuart G. Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Bank Corp. in Pittsburgh, said the bond market was super sensitive to any signs of economic improvement at present.

23.   That might be because many people see little economic improvement themselves.

24.   The central bank will probably hold an increase in interest rates until more economic improvement will be proved through September or December tankan surveys, Cohen said.

25.   The city has doggedly pursued economic improvement and has tried hard to retain its population, especially young people, who have tended to flee in recent decades.

26.   The economic improvement can be attributed to reforms such as allowing some private business ownership and welcoming foreign investment in the country, White said.

27.   The goal is to rally a population beset by everyday scarcity and with little prospect of economic improvement.

28.   The outlook for economic improvement has buoyed the shares of companies that typically do well in an expanding and recovering economy.

29.   They had expected to see rapid economic improvement.

30.   This is not to deny that America has seen real economic improvements.