1.   The improved economy will provide a better climate for workers to push for higher wage rates.

2.   Green candidate, Bill Hughes sees investment in more public transport as not only the key to an improved environment, but also to an improved economy.

3.   Among the factors stoking the rise, analysts said, is an improved domestic economy that increased business travel and domestic tourism.

4.   An improved economy would help the Liberal Democrats and might also give Hashimoto a longer tenure as prime minister.

5.   Americans used to hold onto their old clunkers during recessions, then trade them in when an improved economy brought them raises and promotions.

6.   Analysts said newspapers publishers are reporting increased advertising lineage as a result of improved economies and lower newsprint prices.

7.   And then, he said, the Northridge Earthquake laid waste to great parts of the city -- sparking a massive rebuilding that coincided with an improved economy.

8.   As the political parties prepared their manifestos, they did not want to attack the improved economy but to take credit for it.

9.   As Sharp concedes, the improved economy gets some credit.

10.   At an elaborate ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building near the White House, Democrats lavished Clinton with praise for his stewardship of the improved economy.