That said, if the Hurricanes couldn't make it happen early last year in the Metropolitan (when it was truly woeful), one wonders whether they can do it this time, now that practically everyone else has improved.
Berenson, who has guided Michigan to 21-consecutive N.C.A.A. tournament appearances, was reluctant to give Merrill all of the praise because Berenson believed everyone around Merrill has improved since November.
On one point virtually everyone agrees: life has improved in Bushwick, a poor, largely black and Hispanic neighborhood nestled between Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant just across the Queens border from Ridgewood.
This is unclear – and it is equally unclear by the end of the film, when everyone's language has improved to the extent that they are at least able to further the plot.
Everyone agrees that security has improved at Westhab since September when the shelter hired a new chief of security to report directly to Ms. Cahill, and not, as was previously the case, to a central coordinator for all of Westhab's facilities.
No one's view has improved but everyone is a lot less comfortable.Foreign-exchange markets face a similar issue at the moment.
The lake hasn't fully returned to its pre-1999 water levels — today, large sections look more like marsh than like lake — but its health has improved, and not everyone who owns waterfront property misses the water-skiers.
Public transport has improved.
Attendance has improved, too.
