51.   He was not optimistic that things would improve.

52.   He says his caseload of wheezing children gives no indication that things are improving.

53.   However, things improved greatly from there.

54.   I thought it was better than that, but no doubt things have improved.

55.   If business flagged, the employees might be laid off for a time, but they would be recalled later when things improved.

56.   If things do not improve at Boeing soon, the machinists may not be the only ones fearing for their jobs.

57.   If things do not improve, she said, thousands of jobs could be at stake.

58.   In recent years, however, many black performers have expressed the view that things are improving.

59.   It is also an indication of how things have incrementally improved for this laughingstock franchise, how there must be a professional itch being scratched somewhere in the organization.

60.   It was a bad start to a presidency, and things never improved.