11.  The department has worked aggressively for the last three years to improve response time, and there are indications that the efforts are working.

12.  The FAA has removed the intersection and rerouted planes to improve flight times, Shumann said.

13.  The program has helped GTE improve delivery time of the phone books it publishes and cut the number of errors printed in the books in half, Goode said.

14.  The top five women were closer than the top five men last year, and I was the only one to improve my time from the year before.

15.  Philip Boit has improved his time by seven minutes in a year.

16.  Berger, Brundle and Herbert were the only drivers who failed to improve their times from Friday.

17.  He managed to improve his time from the backup car.

18.  None of the top-five qualifiers from Friday could improve their times.

19.  The company said that in the other two new studies, the drug did not significantly improve the time for headaches to go away in either adults or children.

20.  The afternoon saw a series of world record attempts by skaters using clap skates on the super-fast Thialf ice rink prepared with specially purified water to improve times.