The only response we can think of is the humble one that at least we aren't playing the marimba with our shoes in the United Nations, but perhaps the heavy domes in the house of delegates can improve on this feeble effort.

Such policy involves continuing effort to improve on existing mill equipment, in terms of efficiency and versatility.

# if you could dramatically improve how we do that, you'd be boosting every effort on the planet to solve important problems — the sooner the better ; and

As the first part of a 10-year Road Sector Development Program, between 1997 and 2002 the Ethiopian government began a sustained effort to improve its infrastructure of roads.

The NHS for example would distribute baby formula milk fortified with vitamins and minerals in an effort to improve the health of children born in the post war years as well as other supplements such as cod liver oil and malt.

One of the new government's first measures was to introduce secret ballots in an effort to improve the integrity of future elections.

In the late 1970s, the corporation procured new barges, pusher-tugboats, and other equipment in an effort to improve services, but this attempt proved useless because of the warfare that had continued from 1983!

The Spatula featured " reverse camber " with the tips and tails rising above the waist, in an effort to improve the ski's ability to float on the snow.

Unfortunately, results are occasionally wrong, producing a false positive ( the Cochrane Collaboration is a relevant effort to improve the reliability of health care trials ).

President Harding, in an effort to improve U. S. relations with Mexico, Latin America, and the Caribbean Islands implemented a program of military disengagement.

The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist is in current use worldwide in the effort to improve patient safety.

In an effort to improve matters, King Æthelred the Unready took Emma of Normandy, sister of Duke Richard II, as his second wife in 1002.

The money went toward behavioral science research, which was supported by foundation officers who aimed to " improve mankind " under an informal, loosely defined human engineering effort.

It prioritizes the encouragement of reforms that improve the trade friendliness and ease of doing business in an effort to advise countries on fostering a suitable investment climate.

The federally mandated project intends to improve security and reduce security costs, and is part of NNSA's overall effort to transform the Cold War era " nuclear weapons " enterprise into a 21st century " nuclear security " enterprise.

In 1983 he was called upon by Democratic Governor Mark White to help improve the quality of the state's public education, and ended up leading the effort (" Select Committee on Public Education ") to reform the school system, which resulted in major legislative changes.

In an effort to further improve trade, Darius built canals, underground waterways and a powerful navy.

Recently, the standards of weight gain are becoming less strict, in an effort to improve the overall health of the wrestlers.

Calhoun labored to raise troops, to provide funds, to speed logistics, to improve the currency, and to regulate commerce to aid the war effort.

The introduction of the Next Generation Touring Car specification, from 2011, started a phased transition from Super 2000 cars in an effort to cut costs and improve the sport.

Since this time a concerted effort has been undertaken to improve emergency medical care in the pre-hospital setting.

Johnson's biographer concludes, " The mission was a temporary exposure to danger calculated to satisfy Johnson's personal and political wishes, but it also represented a genuine effort on his part, however misplaced, to improve the lot of America's fighting men.

An intensely researched population of free-ranging animals was also introduced to the Hortobágy puszta in Hungary ; data on social structure, behavior and diseases gathered from these animals is used to improve the Mongolian conservation effort.

television brand, in an effort to improve mathematics literacy in children.

In office, Kennett immediately instituted a budget-cutting and privatisation program, in an effort to improve the State's economy.

* Swearingen Jr., William Scott Environmental City: People, Place, and the Meaning of Modern Austin ( University of Texas Press ; 2010 ) 273 pages ; traces the history of environmentalism in the Texas capital, which has been part of a larger effort to preserve Austin's quality of life and sense of place.

However, an episode of Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections relating to the Keck Observatory ( whose reflector glass is based on the Archimedes ' Mirror ) did successfully use a much smaller curved mirror to burn a wooden model, though not made of the same quality of materials as in the MythBusters effort.

Higher quality for complex tasks costs higher effort, reduced duration for simpler tasks comes with noticeably lower quality – the meta-analysis " suggests that pair programming is not uniformly beneficial or effective ".

The meta-study found that pair programming tends to reduce development time somewhat and produces marginal positive effects on code quality, but that pair programming requires significantly more developer effort ; that is, it is significantly more expensive than solo programming.

They believed that the economics would encourage network providers to deliberately erode the quality of best effort traffic as a way to push customers to higher priced QoS services.

In partnership with their contractors, Monotype Corporation, Microsoft spent much effort creating a set of high quality TrueType fonts that were compatible with the core fonts being bundled with PostScript equipment at the time.

Despite the disdain of sousaphones held by most serious tuba players, a quality modern sousaphone is often a better choice for the high school or semi-pro player due to more stable intonation and less breath effort needed to generate tone.

This technique has been shown to reduce sleep effort and performance anxiety and also lower subjective assessment of sleep-onset latency and overestimation of the sleep deficit ( a quality found in many insomniacs ).

In applause Sec ' y Shinseki said, " The Department of Veterans Affairs and the entire administration are encouraged by the opportunities that electronic health record interoperability provides for Veterans, Service Members and their dependents ," ... " We are proud to join in this effort with Kaiser Permanente and to achieve the benefits of health data exchange, including improved quality, patient safety, and efficiency.

As an effort to raise racing quality and promote horseracing nationwide, the KRA started to construct the new thoroughbred racecourse in Busan, the second largest city in South Korea.

It may also help enhance the quality and flexibility of the effort expended ( Fredrickson, 2001 ).

Palmdale's innovative Partners Against Crime ( PAC ) Program, a cooperative effort between law enforcement, landlords and community members, has successfully focused on quality of life issues and crime suppression, reducing the crime rate annually.

Since 1999, supplanting the former Mérite de la langue française ( French language Merit ), it awards the Prix Camille-Laurin to underline a person's effort in promoting the usefulness of quality of French in his / her social milieu.

The riches that the town hopes to gain by this effort are an improved environment and an improved quality of life for its citizens — the people who define Cottage City, who take pride in what they are, where they have been, and where they are going.

The forest plan was modified to allow harvesting as much as 10, 000 cords for ten years in an effort to remove the poorer quality trees and improve the overall quality of the forest.

The next major effort intended to improve quality of life in the city through planning was the completion of the community's first comprehensive plan in April 1996.

From 2002 – 2004 CAIR organized the Library Project, an effort to " put quality materials about Islam in all 17, 000 public libraries in the United States.

The International Grape Genome Program is a multi-national effort to discover a genetic means to improving quality, increasing yield and providing a " natural " resistance to pests.

The Society makes an effort to improve the quality of mathematics teaching in the US.

These standards pertain to auditors ' professional qualifications, the quality of audit effort, and the characteristics of professional and meaningful audit reports.

By enforcing very strict specification and quality criteria on component manufacture, he eliminated this work almost entirely, reducing manufacturing effort by between 60-90 %.