In the 1960s and 70s surveys were conducted into shy behaviour, and institutes were established to improve social skills.
Gradual decline in the following two decades was accompanied by an increase in crime so the ACCISD was established to improve matters.
I imagine that many would expect the Science Media Centre, established to improve the quality of science reporting, to be leading the assault.
The Streetscapes column last Sunday, about Phipps Houses, which was established to improve housing for the poor, misstated the location of its first development.
Vikas Pota is chief executive of the Varkey Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation established to improve the standards of education for underprivileged children.
Those from the richest fifth of neighbourhoods are still nine times more likely to go to the top universities than those from the poorest fifth, according to the Sutton Trust, a charity established to improve social mobility.
In 1999 the William H Gates Foundation and a separate charity Bill Gates had established to improve computer access in American libraries were combined into the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Correction: November 30, 2003, Sunday The Streetscapes column last Sunday, about Phipps Houses, which was established to improve housing for the poor, misstated the location of its first development.
In 2008 the Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, a new government-sponsored forum for intellectuals and historians from both countries, was established to improve dialogue on the tortured history of Polish-Russian relations.
National Trauma Registries are being established to improve patient outcomes.
More recently, several capillary-derived methods were established to improve throughput of charge variants analysis.
