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If the deal couldn't be improved, "it should be rejected as worse than a bad status quo".
While there's a pretty good stab at a definition within the PCC code I don't say that this couldn't be improved upon.
Norey Cullen is the sort of cook who long ago decided that there wasn't a dish out there that couldn't be improved by a liberal dose of heavy cream.
Bicycling through farm fields on lanes of concrete may feel odd at first, but Japan's eager-beaver construction industry has never met a dirt road that couldn't be improved with a few layers of concrete.
There are new dishes on the menu, but certain old familiar ones, like sauteed sweet Manila clams and plump New Zealand mussels in a garlicky black bean sauce with fresh basil, couldn't be improved on.
It challenges our notions of appropriate caloric intake, treats foie gras as a sacrament and has rarely seen an ingredient that couldn't be improved by cooking it with some part of the pig.
When Fordham pressed Abbott to explain whether the investigative processes were adequate or needed to be improved, the prime minister said: "Well, Ben, I never say that there's nothing that can't go wrong or that there's nothing that couldn't be improved.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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