Improvements to the woodlands, gardens and estate buildings were also being made, assisted by the landscape gardener James Beattie and the painter James Giles.

Improvements in public health and education, provision of child care, provision of state-directed social services, and provision of social benefits are deemed by Marxist-Leninists to help to raise labour productivity and advance a society in development towards a communist society.

Improvements in technology have provided weapons which weigh less, cost less, and can be assembled, loaded, and fired by an illiterate child, adding additional appeal to child soldiers.

Improvements in combustion chamber design and piston form enabled lighter V8 engines to surpass the V12 in power starting from the 1930s ; only the smaller, H-Series Lincoln V-12 remained after WWII and it was replaced by a V8 in 1949.

* Improvements in family allowances, with monthly subsidies for children increased by over 100 % ( 1975 ).

Improvements used include color alteration, improving transparency by dissolving rutile inclusions, healing of fractures ( cracks ) or even completely filling them.

Improvements to the neighbourhood included the Toulon Opera, the place de la Liberté, the Grand Hôtel, the Gardens of Alexander I, the Chalucet Hospital, the palais de Justice, the train station, and the building now occupied by Galeries Lafayette, among others.

Improvements were also made in conditions for nursing staff following the publication of a report by the NBPI in 1968 on the pay of nurses.

Section 8 of the Act refers to the prohibition of one person of serving as director of two or more corporations if the certain threshold values are met, which are required to be set by regulation of the Federal Trade Commission, revised annually based on the change in gross national product, pursuant to the Hart – Scott – Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.

Improvements introduced by Adams during 1986 with B News version 2. 11 removed the requirement for moderated groups to use the " mod.

As outlined by the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act, larger companies attempting to merge must first notify the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division prior to consummating a merger.

Improvements on the lower levels were also undertaken, being completed by 1814.

The Village Council is composed of John Mahoney ( Mayor ; Liquor Control Commissioner ), Kenneth " Kent " Oliven, CPA ( Commissioner of Accounts & Finances ; Mayor Pro-Tem ), Nicole Milovich-Walters ( Commissioner of Streets & Public Improvements ; by Village Code also in charge of Recreation ), Dan Polk ( Commissioner of Public Health & Safety ), and G. Darryl Reed ( Commissioner of Building and Public Property ).

Improvements were also made to sanitation ; in the 18th century more people died from gaol fever that by hanging.

Improvements to the choir were made during the 16th and 18th century, and medieval glass which was shattered by a storm of 1608 was meticulously collected and installed in the East Window in 1725.

Improvements in technology since then have resulted in greater use of the smaller arrays, by sites such as the Côte d ' Azur Observatory in Grasse, France ; and the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation ( APOLLO ) at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico.

Improvements continued, and were funded by making calls on the original shareholders.

The first such scheme was proposed in 1677 by Andrew Yarranton, who published his idea in a work entitled England's Improvements by Sea and Land.

Improvements in textile machinery ( by Kay, Hargreaves and Arkwright ), along with the development of turnpike roads ( 1751 – 1781 ), helped to develop the new cotton industry and to increase the local population.

Improvements in automotive engineering have reduced the amount of PM10s produced by road traffic, the proportion representing re-suspension of existing particulates has, as a result, increased.

Improvements to the shadow mask designs continually narrowed this difference in the two designs, and by the late 1980s the difference in performance, at least theoretically, was eliminated.

Improvements in the way joints in the wetsuit were made by gluing, taping and blindstitching, helped the suit to remain waterproof and reduce flushing, the replacement of water trapped between suit and body by cold water from the outside.

Improvements were also made to the drive wheels, caterpillar tracks and gearbox by 1938.

Also he was Deputy Convener of the Airdrie-Bathgate Railway and Linked Improvements Bill Committee.

Improvements were made to the grandstand and the race track was rebuilt in 1954.

Improvements may include installing double tracks where presently the route is single line, improved signalling giving increased track capacity, enhanced line speed, longer trains at peak times and ultimately putting on more frequent trains to and from Manchester throughout the day.

Improvements were made in nursing accommodation in order to recruit more nurses and reduce labour shortages which were keeping 60, 000 beds out of use, and efforts were made to reduce the imbalance “ between an excess of fever and tuberculosis ( TB ) beds and a shortage of maternity beds .” In addition, BCG vaccinations were introduced for the protection of medical students, midwives, nurses, and contacts of patients with TB, while a pension scheme was set up for employees of the newly-established NHS.

Improvements in the regional transportation network and the economic growth of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg area, and Mount Holly's strategic location between Charlotte and Gastonia, have created conditions for an expanding population in recent years.

Improvements were made, with the locks being mechanised between 1964 and 1969.

Improvements at Cardiff involved the construction of a new lock, Number 51, which raised the water level between there and Crockherbtown lock, so that the junction canal and the West Bute and East Bute docks were all on the same level.

Improvements in crampon design ( pioneered by Eckenstein in 1908 ) and ice climbing technique led to use of shorter, lighter ice axes appropriate to steeper ice climbs in the period between the world wars.

Improvements to the line carried out at the time of the transfer to the Oxford & Aylesbury Tramroad, and the use of the MR's better quality rolling stock, reduced the journey time from Brill to Quainton Road to between 32 and 36 minutes.

The $ 1 billion Sepulveda Pass Improvements Project will add a high-occupancy vehicle lane and associated changes to freeway entrances, exits, and underpasses along a 10-mile stretch through the Sepulveda Pass between I-10 and U. S. 101 / Ventura Boulevard.

Improvements to the Oxley and Pacific Highway has seen steady improvements in travel times between Sydney and the mid-north coast region from 6 hours to just 4 hours ( from Wahroonga to the Oxley Highway interchange );

Improvements in the processes and procedures of the electromagnetic and gaseous isotope separation between October 1945 and June 1946 led to an increase in production to around of uranium-235 per month, which was only enough for one of the very wasteful Little Boys.

In the next six years the event had four different sponsors: MIM Britannia Unit Trusts in 1988, Anglian Windows in 1989, Pearl Assurance between 1990 and 1992, and Wickes Home Improvements in 1993.

Improvements included a variable search window size ; Amiga LZX was fixed to 64kB, Microsoft LZX could range on powers of two between 32 and 2048 kilobytes.

Improvements were made to the expressway in 2003 and 2004 by removing several toll stations in 2003 and repairing the previously uneven road surface between the 6th Ring Road and Xijizhen in Beijing in 2004.

Improvements were also continuously made during, and between, both World Wars.

Improvements were made in the Ground Forces between 1996 and 1999 ; when the Second Chechen War started, instead of hastily assembled " composite regiments " dispatched with little or no training, whose members had never seen service together, formations were brought up to strength with replacements, put through preparatory training, and then dispatched.

Improvements to the road have allowed the entire Baltimore Beltway to be signed as I-695, even though all of I-695 between the junction of I-95 northeast of Baltimore and I-97 is officially considered MD 695 by the MDSHA.

Improvements to the road and the necessary funds were authorized by an act of the Upper Canada provincial parliament on February 13, 1833 for the section in Scarborough township between Danforth Road ( present day Painted Post Drive ) and the Eighth Concession at the border with Markham township.

Improvements carried out by the Bowes-Lyon family included landscaping in the 18th century, a chapel ( Gibside Chapel, built between 1760 and 1812 ), a banqueting hall, a column of Liberty, an avenue of oaks and several hundred acres of forest.