The other is that something happened in the past year to improve general corporate prospects by 40 or 50 percent.

Without the charge, profits would have improved by 16.3 percent for the quarter.

Over all, the N's ratings improved between 2004 and 2005 by 35 percent among teenagers.

Its business has improved by about 12 percent since the smoking ban took effect.

Sure, if you add one black to the black who's already there, you've improved by 100 percent.

Toyota improved by 5.5 percent over 2003, to 27.9 hours.

The catch, however, is that energy efficiency will have to improve by at least 1.3 percent per year over the next 40 years.

If he had died in 1995, our score would have improved by 15 percent.

"We will not improve by 30 percent across the fleet," the executive said.

He predicts that earnings will improve by 75 percent in 1990.