When numbers slip, time is devoted to improvement.
Interview with Mrs. Stevens Baird, vice-president of the club which is devoted to improvement of the breed & general promotion of the Norwich terrier.
Much of the country's development budget has been devoted to improvement of the infrastructure, but the five-year plans also have emphasized the exploitation of agricultural and power resources, and the country's economy has been on a general upward trend since the late 20th century.
Three weeks later Tappan brought out a new daily newspaper, The Journal of Commerce, the columns of which would be unsullied by theatre & lottery ads & which would be devoted to "improvements in Literature, Science, and the Arts".
Most of the cellular manipulation with nanoparticles is, at this moment, devoted to improvements of new therapies and imaging tools.
Given that the total amount of money devoted to improving public health is limited, improvements in the allocation of funding can benefit society at no additional cost.
But that was no reason not to embark on a new installment devoted to bodily improvement.
The same radical energies that he had once devoted to civic improvement were now directed toward imperial problems.
(The Communist students who have flocked to Mao's hideout in Yenan, he writes, "live and study, wholly devoted to the improvement of self and society").
We have people who show audiences how to paint a room or grow plants," explains Burton Jablin, senior vice president and general manager of Home and Garden Television, a cable channel in Knoxville, Tenn., devoted to home improvement shows.
In developed and developing countries alike, no factor is of greater importance in relation to the quantity and quality of education; it is significant that a substantial proportion of the budget of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is devoted to the improvement of teacher preparation.
