61.   Last summer, Kerrigan played in a few Futures events, and found that things had improved.

62.   Local officials, when asked about labor abuses, typically offer a mixture of denial, apology and insistence that things have improved.

63.   Maybe things will improve.

64.   My, how things have improved.

65.   Nor did things improve much for Microsoft as the trial went forth.

66.   One can argue things will improve with the return of Klemm, Light, and Compton, but based on what?

67.   Once the game came, things did not improve.

68.   One reason things have improved is that the Chiefs have rediscovered their running game.

69.   Other things have improved.

70.   Only a month earlier, both had been pointing hopefully to some signs that things might be improving after three years of rapidly deteriorating on-time performance.