61.   Paterson said the survey found small business was extremely confident about the future, consistent with wider expectations of an economic improvement.

62.   People like Civsija, voting in their prewar homes, might wish the elections could deliver economic improvements and a greater say in their daily lives.

63.   President Boris Yeltsin is counting on continuing economic improvement to boost his efforts to be re-elected this summer.

64.   Prime Minister Simeon Saxcoburggotski, the former king, won elections last June on promises of quick economic improvement.

65.   Putin used the opportunity to present a short list of the economic improvements his administration has achieved over the past year.

66.   Several U.S. officials and economists have been in Ukraine recently to push the structural reforms they say are needed to bring investment and economic improvement.

67.   Rob McMillan, senior analyst of ABN Amro Hoare Govett, said the situations are different as Thailand has been showing some signs of economic improvement.

68.   Stocks have generally rallied over the past week as investors have reacted positively to reports of economic improvement.

69.   The party also plays on the deep distrust of government officials and politicians, widely seen as corrupt operators whose squabbling has blocked economic improvement.

70.   The military has opened up the once isolated nation to foreign businesses and tourists and has achieved some economic improvements.