21.   According to the site, things are improving.

22.   Burke is confident things will improve for the Coyotes off the ice, too, and that eventually the Coyotes will be playing in their own arena.

23.   Business has never been better at the Tres Amigos Convenience Store, and if things improve any more, clerk Brandi Brosh says she may have a nervous breakdown.

24.   But even as things improve around here, snarls have developed elsewhere.

25.   But he did say that he would remove himself from the equation if he saw things were not improving.

26.   But each week things improved and that eased my mind.

27.   But eventually we got our money and went somewhere else and things improved.

28.   But he said he would undergo surgery -- perhaps as early as Tuesday -- if things do not improve.

29.   But he thinks things are improving.

30.   But Jones remains firm in his support of Gailey and believes things will improve.