Many Democrats have spoken about investing in the "green economy"; Mr Obama, for one, says he wants some spending to go on improving energy efficiency in public buildings, and he has promised to create 5m green jobs.Mr Obama's stimulus plans add up to $175 billion over two years.
I thought he ran an excellent race in the Dante last time and looks like he will go on improving.
Far from harking back to a mythical Arcadian past, they think science is likely to go on improving life in the future.
The charity reckons that if things go on improving as they are 83% of the world's people will have access to proper sanitation by 2030.
My life improved when I had my daughter, and went on improving, although it's becoming more scary, what with general decrepitude, the approach of death, your parents and friends pegging out, leaving you on the frontline.
But in tests to do with making connections, assessing the quality of competing arguments and emotional intelligence – the ingredients of what we commonly call wisdom – people go on improving for a long time.
'We have had the register under review for a lengthy period of time now and we want to go on improving how it will work,' said a Whitehall source.
Since education is likely to go on improving, and urbanisation to go on rising, more women will join the ranks of graduates or city folk who are least likely to marry.Marrying upSecond, more education leaves the best-educated women with fewer potential partners.
State-sponsored help should come with a quid pro quo though, says Jerry Blackett, chief executive of the Birmingham Chamber: part of the support to each firm should go on improving workforce skills and R&D.A few blocks away, shoppers scour the Bullring for discounts of up to 50% on clothes and other goods.
