But, contrary to all the curmudgeonly grumbling that preceded them, the Olympic Games have replaced such ambiguity with a tally of 29 gold medals, exceeded only by the United States and China, as if the nation had been blessed by what Samuel Smiles, the Victorian advocate of individual will and self-betterment, called "the gift of miracles".
Taxes that capture uplift in land values (sometimes called betterment taxes) can be effectively used to recoup spending on a lot of public infrastructure.
Someone will make a lot of money by coming up with a streamlined way to serve these investors, and two services called Betterment and Flat Fee Portfolios are among the latest to try.
The main pro-Beijing party here, the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, called on Aug. 21 for Mr. Tung to postpone the security bill until after those elections.
The New York-based company is announcing a 401(k) retirement service, called Betterment for Business, aimed to make it easier for employers to establish, administrators to manage, and employees to monitor retirement savings plans, according to the company.
Betterment says this service, called SmartDeposit, will give members more control from their money.
Every month at Code School, we set aside a day to do what we call "Betterment".
He described "middle adulthood" as 45 to 55, when strength comes through care of others and contribution to the betterment of society, which he called "generativity".
The campaign started when the website for Wentz's Decaydance Records label was supposedly "hacked" by an organization called "Citizens for Our Betterment" (CFOB).
Today two top officials of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong, a pro-Beijing group better known as the D.A.B., called for postponement of consideration of the bill until after next year's Legislative Council elections, which are to be held in late August or early September.
Rather than taking this directive for granted, Nelson delves into the varieties of cruelty perpetrated on us bourgeois for our supposed betterment, what the art critic Grant Kester has called the "orthopedic aesthetic".
