61.   In Latin America, as anywhere, the best long-term way to improve the lot of the poorest is better primary schooling.

62.   In Silicon Valley, labor is trying an unusual strategy to improve the lot of temporary clerical workers at high-tech firms.

63.   Instead, the players seem to be asking owners to improve the lot of their middle class but to keep paying the elite the same money.

64.   It is a problem that grips Russians trying to break the domination of the tycoons, and South African officials desperate to improve the lot of poor blacks.

65.   Khan, they knew, could improve their lot, if he would take pity.

66.   Legislators see trade agreements being used not to improve the lot of ordinary working people but as enticements to lure American factories south to exploit cheap labor.

67.   Many labor in low- and moderate-paying service and manufacturing jobs in hopes of improving their lot.

68.   Long said yesterday his relationship with the team has improved a lot since those days.

69.   My confidence has improved a lot this season.

70.   Nonetheless, Haigh makes a living, and some of his workers improve their lot.