The final Big Dig plan, then, combined several projects — the depression and improvement of the Central Artery, the construction of a third Harbor tunnel ( now known as the Ted Williams Tunnel ), and massive interchange improvements to the Massachusetts Turnpike and several other major routes in the area.

Beginning in 1948, several innovations created the conditions for a major improvement of home-audio quality:

This was a major improvement: it featured a new, object-oriented GUI, the Workplace Shell ( WPS ), that included a desktop and was considered by many to be OS / 2's best feature.

Broader economic improvement, long-term fiscal health, and sustained increases in the standard of living still depend on the government passing major policy reforms and on continued development of Iraq's massive oil reserves.

Information theory and digital signal processing offer a major improvement of resolution and image clarity over previous analog methods.

Its new police force proved to be a major improvement in outlook and behavior over its thuggish predecessor but was not fully able to deter crime.

A major reason for the team's improvement was the emergence of their young quarterback Joe Montana.

After 1955 however, there was a dramatic ten-fold increase in the rate of wheat yield improvement per year, and this became the major factor allowing global wheat production to increase.

The major VHS OEMs resisted HQ due to cost concerns, eventually resulting in JVC reducing the requirements for the HQ brand to white clip extension plus one other improvement.

The government sponsored massive shipbuilding and harbor improvement projects, and the construction of beacons and seaport warehouses in order to support maritime trade abroad and the major international seaports, such as Quanzhou, Guangzhou, and Xiamen, that were sustaining China's commerce.

Rampant inflation and corruption also have thwarted development, but the last years the fundamentals of its economy showed an impressing improvement leading the major credit rating agencies to an upgrade of Bolivian economy in 2010.

The car was a major improvement over previous generations, but the fall of the centralised economy, below-par quality and inadequate management ultimately brought the factory to bankruptcy.

It was a major improvement over the ( tricky ) handling of the swing axles of the earlier 33, 44 and 55 models.

In 1931, a major improvement in playback fidelity was introduced: three-way speaker systems in which sound was separated into low, medium, and high frequencies and sent respectively to a large bass " woofer ", a midrange driver, and a treble " tweeter.

Fox Movietone soon followed Vitaphone into disuse as a recording and reproduction method, leaving two major American systems: the variable-area RCA Photophone and Western Electric's own variable-density process, a substantial improvement on the cross-licensed Movietone.

A major improvement was made in 2000 by Bernd Meyer with the use of Just-in-time compilation, which significantly improved the emulation speed, to the extent that average PCs could now emulate some Amiga software faster than any real Amiga could run it.

This major improvement was introduced to the public as the " calotype " or " talbotype " process in 1841.

A major improvement program was started in the mid-1990s to beautify the campus.

The 1913 season saw major improvement in which the team qualified fourth, but were eventually beaten in the 1913 grand final by Fitzroy.

* Westminster Kingsway College ( while major improvement works are carried out at King's Cross ).

The Francophonie is committed to working towards sustainable development by supporting the improvement of economic governance, capacity building, cooperation and the search for common positions in major international negotiations.

The user manual for the device warns that effectiveness has not been established in patients with major depressive disorder who have failed to achieve satisfactory improvement from zero and from two or more antidepressant medications in the current episode and that the device has not been studied in patients who have had no prior antidepressant medication.

The main roads are well-kept, but many of the side roads were in very poor condition and are undergoing major improvement.

Nearly every major " Big Box " retail format ( e. g. home improvement, general merchandise, grocery, department store, and consumer electronics ) has a presence in the township.

Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

Following the War of the Thousand Days ( 1899 – 1902 ), Colombia experienced a coffee boom that catapulted the country into the modern period, bringing the attendant benefits of transportation, particularly railroads, communications infrastructure, and the first major attempts at manufacturing.

He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.

A major advance in manufacturing began in Europe in the late 14th century when the safety and thoroughness of incorporation was improved by wet grinding ; liquid, such as distilled spirits or perhaps the urine of wine-drinking bishops was added during the grinding-together of the ingredients and the moist paste dried afterwards.

The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th century and early 19th century when major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, and transport affected socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain and subsequently spread throughout Europe and North America and eventually the world, a process that continues as industrialisation.

Windows 7 is the current major release after Windows Vista and was released to manufacturing on 22 July 2009, and reached general retail availability on 22 October 2009.

Italy's major exports and companies by sector are motor vehicles ( Fiat, Aprilia, Ducati, Piaggio, Iveco ); tyre manufacturing ( Pirelli ); chemicals and petrochemicals ( Eni ); energy and electrical engineering ( Enel, Edison ); home appliances ( Candy, Indesit ); aerospace and defense technologies ( Finmeccanica, Alenia Aeronautica, AgustaWestland, Oto Melara ); firearms ( Beretta, Benelli ); fashion ( Armani, Valentino, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Roberto Cavalli, Benetton, Prada, Luxottica ); food processing ( Ferrero, Barilla Group, Martini & Rossi, Campari, Parmalat ); sport and luxury vehicles ( Ferrari, Maserati, Lamborghini, Pagani ); yachts ( Ferretti, Azimut ).

Canals began to be built in the late 18th century to link the major manufacturing centres across the country.

These two operations, which attempted to secure major investment in infrastructure and manufacturing sectors, were generally regarded as successful.

Over the next decades, the city would see itself transformed into a major American industrial center for the manufacturing of automobiles and automobile parts among other industries.

The Lansing metropolitan area's major industries are government, education, insurance, healthcare, and automobile manufacturing.

Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy ; other major industries are transportation, manufacturing, mining, forestry, energy, and tourism.

In the late 1980s, the major subsectors of manufacturing were food, beverages, and tobacco ; textiles, clothing, leather, and shoes ; wood and related products ; and chemicals, petroleum, and plastics.

Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate in the latter half of the 20th century, involved in aircraft, the space industry, both defense-oriented and commercial electronics, automotive and truck components, printing presses, valves and meters, and industrial automation.

The semiconductor industry, including IC manufacturing, design, and packing, forms a major part of Taiwan's IT industry.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and a major manufacturing center ; as well as its second largest port after Istanbul.

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library ( LTDL ) contains more than 11 million documents created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.

* UOP LLC, ( formerly Universal Oil Products ), a company developing and delivering oil-related technology to the major manufacturing industries

However, the Venetian empire was a major exporter of agricultural products and, until the mid-18th century, a significant manufacturing center.

These two plans, which provided for major investment in infrastructure and manufacturing, were largely implemented and were generally successful.

Dresden in the 20th century was a major communications hub and manufacturing center, as well as a leading European centre of art, classical music, culture and science until its complete destruction on 13 February 1945.

In 1960, he left the Soviet Union and began working at Elliott Brothers, Ltd, a small computer manufacturing firm, where he implemented ALGOL 60 and began developing major algorithms.

The 19th century was marked by the emergence of a liberal opposition press, the abolition of guild monopolies in trade and manufacturing in favor of free enterprise, the introduction of taxation and voting reforms, the installation of a national military service, and the rise in the electorate of three major party groups — Social Democratic Party, Liberal Party, and Conservative Party.

The 1960s through the early 1990s were major years for the manufacturing of contemporary collectibles.