It's best to buy them fresh from a dealer who is working to improve them.

Similarly, a girl who graduates with a good working knowledge of stenography and the use of clerical machines and who is able to get a job at once may wish to improve her skill and knowledge by a year or two of further study in a community college or secretarial school.

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works ( IIC ) was incorporated under British law in 1950 as " a permanent organization to co-ordinate and improve the knowledge, methods, and working standards needed to protect and preserve precious materials of all kinds.

The Community Development Support Fund, sponsored by the International Development Association ( IDA, a World Bank affiliate ) and the Comorian government, is working to improve water supply on the islands as well.

Enlightened industrialists, such as Robert Owen also supported these organisations to improve the conditions of the working class.

While working on amateur productions he was also determined to improve his appearance and physique, buying bodybuilding courses, taking elocution lessons, and trying to redress his lack of education and culture.

The mission of these workers and the AFL-CIO " is to improve the lives of working families — to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.

He worked in diverse fields: applying the Laue effect to the new field of X-ray analysis of crystals ; using hypnosis to improve measurement-reading accuracy ; working with Ivan Pavlov's laboratory ; and using gas-filled lamps as measuring devices.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

Following the revelation of widespread financial corruption in the 1990s, the government is still working to improve credit options for Paraguayan businesses.

Spain is currently working to increase and improve linkage with the rail systems of France and Portugal, including high-speed rail between Madrid and Lisbon.

In addition, global initiatives to improve the efficiency of aid delivery, such as the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, have not been taken up by water sector donors as effectively as they have in education and health, potentially leaving multiple donors working on overlapping projects and recipient governments without empowerment to act.

Victims of retaliation against union organizing and other concerted activities to improve working conditions have six months to make complaints to the National Labor Relations Board ( NLRB ).

During a difficult period of transition, he did much to improve the working relationship between the races.

Seeing the RFP and working with Don Kennedy they submitted a 30 page proposal to Picatinny and were awarded a $ 375, 000 development contract to improve the design.

Taco Bell agreed to meet all of the coalition's demands to improve wages and working conditions for Florida tomato pickers in its supply chain.

Also, the experience of working collaboratively tends to improve communication between the parties, particularly when collaborative coaches are involved, and the possibility of going back to court post-separation or divorce is minimised.

The purpose of the Department of Labor ( DOL ) is to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States ; improve working conditions ; advance opportunities for profitable employment ; and assure work-related benefits and rights.

Despite having the baron de Breteuil working on her behalf, the purchase did not help improve the public's image of the queen as frivolous.

Occupational therapists ( OTs ) help people of all ages to improve their ability to perform tasks in their daily living and working environments.

Reinforced concrete may also be permanently stressed ( in compression ), so as to improve the behaviour of the final structure under working loads.

This is, in general, a weakness ( the data must periodically be backed up to a persistent-storage medium to avoid loss ), but is sometimes desirable: for example, when working with a decrypted copy of an encrypted file, or for storing a web cache ( doing this on a RAM drive can also improve the speed of loading pages ).

It is also working to improve revenue collection in order to better fund social programs.

Bacon first attempted working in marble in about 1763, and during the course of his early efforts in this art was led to improve the method of transferring the form of the model to the marble ( technically " getting out the points ") by the invention of a more perfect instrument for the purpose.

Most of the social and economic goals announced at the eighth Congress had been reached ; however, the absence of a definitive statement on further efforts to improve the working and living conditions of the population proved to be a source of concern.

For this purpose, the NSC established an interagency working group which in turn coordinated the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean ( managed by Otto Reich ), which conducted the campaign.

George's son Robert had been working in South America from 1824 to 1827 and had returned to run the Forth Street Works while George was living in Liverpool and overseeing the construction of the new line.

His paternalistic programs won the support of German industry because its goals were to win the support of the working classes for the Empire and reduce the outflow of immigrants to America, where wages were higher but welfare did not exist.

In North America in 2004, many endocrinologists prefer the term Flexible Insulin Therapy ( FIT ) to " intensive therapy " and use it to refer to any method of replacing insulin that attempts to mimic the pattern of small continuous basal insulin secretion of a working pancreas combined with larger insulin secretions at mealtimes.

Its goals include pressing for religious pluralism, working for an equitable distribution of funding from the World Zionist Organization and the Jewish Agency for Conservative Zionist programs in Israel and America, promoting civil rights in Israel for all people, encouraging electoral reform in Israel, and opposing any change in " Who Is a Jew?

Sanger would sometimes end the story by saying, " I threw my nursing bag in the corner and announced ... that I would never take another case until I had made it possible for working women in America to have the knowledge to control birth.

His paternalistic programs won the support of German industry because its goals were to win the support of the working classes for the Empire and reduce the outflow of emigrants to America, where wages were higher but welfare did not exist.

Sapir offers similar observations about speakers of so-called " world " or " modern " languages, noting that " possession of a common language is still and will continue to be a smoother of the way to a mutual understanding between England and America, but it is very clear that other factors, some of them rapidly cumulative, are working powerfully to counteract this leveling influence.

In 1871 the Germans expelled most of the English-speaking members of the First International's U. S. sections, leading to the quick decline of the organization, as it failed to attract the ethnic working class in America.

He worked for the Foundation until 1918, forming a close working association and friendship with Rockefeller, advising him through the turbulent period of the 1914 strike and Ludlow massacre at a family-owned coal company in Colorado, which subsequently set the stage for a new era in labor management in America.

As part of its efforts to advance its international agenda, the WFTU develops working partnerships with national and industrial trade unions worldwide as well as with a number of international and regional trade union organizations including the Organization of African Trade Union Unity ( OATUU ), the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions ( ICATU ), the Permanent Congress of Trade Union Unity of Latin America ( CPUSTAL ), and the General Federation of Trade Unions of CIS.

After touring Latin America in late 2004 for the promotion Greatest Hits, Williams started working on his sixth studio album.

As she was not working, she had the time to devote to Pledge of Resistance, a group that opposed U. S. policies in Central America.

Reid ( The Healing of America, 2009 ): " The term medicine ' was popularized by a public relations firm working for the American Medical Association in 1947 to disparage President Truman's proposal for a national health care system.

Shortly after his acquittal in 1875, Muybridge left the United States on a previously planned 9-month photography trip to Central America, as a " working exile ".

His son Robert had recently returned from a stint working in South America and resumed as managing director of Robert Stephenson and Company.

Akhmatova joined the Acmeist group of poets in 1910 with poets such as Osip Mandelstam and Sergey Gorodetsky, working in response to the Symbolist school, concurrent with the growth of Imagism in Europe and America.

Born in Ireland, he emigrated to America early in life, working in a variety of unskilled jobs before attending the University of Kansas to read law.

Beppo sails for America to make his fortune, making a living working as a shoeshiner on a street corner in New York City.

Rodeo ( or ) is a competitive sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia.

Isabel ’ s only punishment will be that she will never get Larry, who has decided to return to America and live as a common working man.

Resnais spent part of that period in America working on various unfulfilled projects, including one about the Marquis de Sade.

Captain America and his teenage partner Bucky Barnes fought against and thwarted the Skull and his plans many times during the war, both working on their own and operating as members of the Invaders.

As of December 2009, the Capuchins were approximately 10, 500 in number, of which 6, 939 were priests, living and working in 103 countries around the world: Africa: 1, 354 ; South America: 1, 762 ; North America: 682 ; Asia-Oceania: 2196 ; West Europa: 3755 ; Central-East Europa: 770 .< ref > statistical data from < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Analecta Ordinis Fratrum Minorum Capuccinorum, Roma In Great Britain there are currently five Capuchin friaries, and eight in Ireland.