41.   It would also greatly improve the prospects that the Cuban people will someday move toward a market economy and democracy.

42.   Large dividends are also taken by investors as a signal of improving prospects.

43.   Kemp improved his prospects in the opinion of Jim Kratsas, deputy director of the Ford museum.

44.   Liu said reports that Iraq will be allowed to sell crude oil, possibly lowering the cost of production and improving earnings prospects, helped petrochemical companies.

45.   Meanwhile, a similar amount is expected later this week for the corn and soybean regions of Brazil and Argentina, improving the prospects for those crops.

46.   Next year, however, Whirlpool says it expects the early part of the year to be rough, with improving prospects in the second half.

47.   Now the company said it is counting on the buyback and expanding sales in its businesses of manufacturing mining and papermaking equipment to improve its prospects.

48.   Part of the solution, U.S. officials have said, is to improve economic prospects for the Palestinians to show them there are tangible benefits of the peace process.

49.   Perhaps most fundamentally, the new money will improve the prospects that good proposals will get funded.

50.   President Alberto Fujimori said Peru completed the restructuring of its debt to foreign countries, improving prospects for economic growth.