Privately held U.S. companies, on average, have a slightly improved credit position than a year ago, according to new data from Sageworks Inc., a financial information company.
The poll, like others recently, shows Mr. Obama with a slightly improved approval rating.
Chalmers managed to win Rankin, succeeding the retiring Craig Emerson, with a slightly improved Labor two-party-preferred margin compared with 2010.
Nonetheless, insurance companies are interested in anything that gives them even a slightly improved picture of the odds -- and thus a way to set insurance rates.
Now just a few cents above the 4.90 Australian dollars a share bid price, the market seems to expect at best a slightly improved bid.
The US secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, seizing the initiative offered by a slightly improved relationship with China, intervened directly in the dispute over the Spratly islands, which are claimed by Beijing but lie closer to the Philippines and Vietnam.
Then, every year or two, inventors working for the company could come up with a slightly improved version of the technology and patent it, and the seventeen-year clock would start over.
If quarterback Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, Devonta Freeman and a slightly improved offensive line show their promise this year, I'm expecting a push for the playoffs - probably a wildcard place in NFC South.
Boys with the disease who received the highest dose of the drug had a slightly improved ability to walk after 48 weeks of treatment, the drug's developer, Sarepta Therapeutics, announced Wednesday.
The results point to a slightly improved economic climate in which more consumers are able to afford their monthly cable service, which is still the essence of the rapidly expanding Comcast.
Recent economic indicators, such as strong real annualised GDP growth of 4.1% in the first quarter, as well as a slightly improved jobs market, leave Mr Abe with little excuse but to go ahead.
