Through various dummy corporations, Walt Disney purchased of Florida swampland ( twice the size of Manhattan Island ) located between the cities of Orlando and Kissimmee ( see Reedy Creek Improvement District ).

There have been several system improvement programs, including the Integrated Communications Security ( ICOM ) models, which have integrated voice encryption, the Special Improvement Program ( SIP ) models, which add additional data modes, and the Advanced SIP ( ASIP ) models, which are less than half the size and weight of ICOM and SIP models.

The school was included in the district's School Improvement Zone up until the end of the 2007-2008 school year, which includes an extended day and lower class size.

Birdsey Northrop of Connecticut was responsible for globalizing it when he visited Japan in 1883 and delivered his Arbor Day and Village Improvement message.

Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.

Croatia has had an uneven record in these areas between 1996 and 1999 during the right-wing HDZ government, inhibiting its relations with the European Union and the U. S. Improvement in these areas severely hindered the advance of Croatia's prospects for further Euro-Atlantic integration.

Based on the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen, Home Improvement made its debut on ABC on September 17, 1991, and was one of the highest-rated sitcoms for almost the entire decade.

United Nations General Assembly ( resolution 46 / 119 of 1991 ), " Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care " is a non-binding resolution advocating certain broadly-drawn procedures for the carrying out of involuntary commitment.

The first indication of this change in approach comes from the 1706 pamphlet by John How, a stationer, titled Reasons humbly Offer'd for a Bill for the Encouragement of Learning and the Improvement of Printing.

* 7 March 1876 — Bell's U. S. patent 174, 465 " Improvement in Telegraphy " is granted, covering " the method of, and apparatus for, transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically … by causing electrical undulations, similar in form to the vibrations of the air accompanying the said vocal or other sound.

Upper Iowa University participates in the North Central Association ( NCA ) Academic Quality Improvement Program ( AQIP ), has a UIU chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society, and 165 student athletes were honored in 2010 for academic excellence.

Similar employee protections enforced through OSHA are included in the Surface Transportation Assistance Act ( 1982 ) to protect truck drivers, the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act ( PSIA ) of 2002, the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (" AIR 21 "), and the Sarbanes – Oxley Act, enacted on July 30, 2002 ( for corporate fraud whistleblowers ).

* International Resources for the Improvement of Sight, a multi-national charity

Improvement of three nuclear fuels is crucial for obtaining increased efficiency from nuclear reactors.

The Reedy Creek Improvement District ( RCID ) is the immediate governing jurisdiction for the land of the Walt Disney World Resort.

Therefore, the Disney Company petitioned the Florida State Legislature for the creation of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which would have almost total autonomy within its borders.

The original city boundaries did not cover the whole Improvement District ; they may have been intended as the areas where communities would be built for people to live.

After the film, it was explained that for Disney World, including EPCOT, to succeed, a special district would have to be formed: the Reedy Creek Improvement District with two cities inside it, the City of Bay Lake and the City of Reedy Creek ( now the City of Lake Buena Vista ).

* System Modifications for Improvement

Patent drawing for Joseph F. Glidden's Improvement to barbed wire

* – Joshua Rappleye, Seneca County, New York, Improvement in Constructing Wire fence – tensioner for fence with palings ( pickets ) ( 1871 )

Accreditation agencies outside the United States include the Association of MBAs ( AMBA ), a UK based organization that accredits MBA, DBA and MBM programs worldwide, government accreditation bodies such as the All India Council for Technical Education ( AICTE ) that accredits MBA and PGDM programs across India, the Council on Higher Education ( CHE ) in South Africa, the European Foundation for Management Development operates the European Quality Improvement System ( EQUIS ) for mostly European and Asian schools, the Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation ( FIBAA ), and Central and East European Management Development Association ( CEEMAN ) in Europe.

It's " Improvement scale " requires the clinician to rate how much the patient's illness has improved or worsened relative to a baseline state.

On February 2012, The FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act of 2012 requires a joint plan to be submitted in 180 days by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in consultation with the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Secretary of Defense.

2. the circular letter to all Chief Constables issued by the Association of Chief Police Officers Forensics Portfolio holder and the Chief Executive of the National Policing Improvement Agency dated 6 January 2009 strongly encouraging Forces “ to review their future commitment to CRFP registration and the financial commitment that this requires ” and

The Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act ( DAWIA ) requires Defense Acquisition Workforce members to be certified for the position they hold.

The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan, is properly written in capital letters and was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly, when senders use the code in the postal address.

The Reedy Creek Improvement District had all the powers of the city and more, raising the questions of why cities needed to be incorporated inside it.

The Averill Park Land Improvement association was organized several years ago, principally through the efforts of James K. Averill, who has probably done more than any other single individual to further the interests of the town.

The Indianola Beach Improvement Club was incorporated in 1928 to raise more building money.

A 2008 report by the department's inspector general found that despite implementation of the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 ( MINER Act ), mine safety regulators did not conduct federally required inspections at more than 14 percent of the country's 731 underground coal mines during the previous year.

* Governor's Road Improvement Program, a program in the State of Georgia to link populations of 2, 500 or more to the Interstate Highway System

Business Process Improvement ( BPI ) is a systematic approach to help an organization optimize its underlying processes to achieve more efficient results.

On March 13, 1984 after the Business Process Improvement was under way at IBM, John Akers stated at the American Electronics Association seminar on Quality in Boston, Our studies show that more than 50 percent of the total cost of billing relates to preventing, catching, or fixing errors.

In addition to these programs, CMS has other responsibilities, including the administrative simplification standards from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 ( HIPAA ), quality standards in long-term care facilities ( more commonly referred to as nursing homes ) through its survey and certification process, and clinical laboratory quality standards under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments.

Improvement in food security strategies by individuals and households allows more time and resources to be directed towards improving economic situations, through investments in better means of production, further education, other quality of life measures, which can improve the status of communities.

The council provided most of the funds, more than £ 42 million, with the rest stemming from government single regeneration budget grants and from the Football Stadium Improvement Fund.

Significantly his Mormon publications often drew more attention than many of his peer-reviewed works ; for example, a lengthy discussion in the pages of Catholic Biblical Quarterly that ran in 1950-51 about his Improvement Era article, " Baptism for the Dead in Ancient Times ".

TV Land added more recent shows in 2009 and 2010, with Roseanne, and Everybody Loves Raymond, Home Improvement, The Nanny and Boston Legal.

In 1888, Zug let the River Rouge Improvement Company cut a small canal through the south section of his property to connect the Rouge River and the Detroit River ( this Short Cut Canal, as it came to be known, was enlarged in the early 1920s by Henry Ford to allow large ships to more easily navigate to and from his famous Ford River Rouge Complex ).

To increase productivity, LP utilized Business Process Improvement technology to make its OSB mills more efficient.

The ANLC and the Party had a more complex relationship with Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association ; while the party approved of Garvey's fostering of " race consciousness ", it was strongly opposed to his support for a separate black nation.

Chaffey's Owens Valley Improvement Company built an irrigation system and planted thousands of fruit trees, and by 1920, the town had more than twenty-five homes, a two-room school, a town hall, and a general store.

The work has also included a series of enhancements to station facilities funded through the National Stations Improvement Programme and include: Relocating and increasing the number of cycle parking spaces outside the station, Renovating all passenger toilets, Creating new waiting shelters on the platforms and a new waiting room on platform, Repositioning the ticket gates to create more space for passengers in the ticket office, and installing a new customer information screen and non-slip flooring in the ticket office.

Greektown, also known as Greektown on the Danforth, or more simply, The Danforth, is a neighbourhood and Business Improvement Area ( BIA ) of the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The project, funded by South West Trains, Devon County Council, Network Rail and the National Station Improvement Programme has made the station more accessible.

In 1974, as part of the Federal Graphics Improvement Program of the National Endowment for the Arts, NASA hired Richard Danne and Bruce Blackburn to design a more modern logo.

The MSF for Capability Maturity Model Integration Process Improvement ( MSF4CMMI ) has more artifacts, more processes, more signoffs, more planning and is intended for projects that require a higher degree of formality and ceremony.