Not only has it cost the state more than $20 million -- critics say that money could have averted a strike if it had gone to improve pay and staffing -- but it has also fueled the anger of unions and their allies in the Democratic Party, the clergy and immigrant advocacy groups.
The collection demonstrates the lengths to which people have gone to improve their hearing, including rubber fans that were held in a person's mouth to absorb vibrations; cornets attached to the head with elaborate bands; and, recently, cochlear implants that are inserted surgically.
"The Lancet fails to recognise the lengths to which the UK food and drink industry has gone to help improve the health of the nation, particularly in relation to rising obesity levels," said Mr Jones.
The Aliyev regime has gone to great lengths to improve its international image in recent years.
Underneath it all, Kia says it has gone to great efforts to improve the Sportage's dynamics and refinement.
Nonetheless, Mr. Whittaker's team, like several other well-financed groups, has gone to elaborate lengths to improve its chances by buying ultrahigh resolution digital imagery of the desert in an effort to preplan potential routes.
"Metrolink has gone to great lengths to improve safety protocols throughout our agency and is now leading the nation in rail safety technology," said San Bernardino Mayor Pat Morris, board chairman of the railroad.
In 1936 Marsh had gone to Germany to improve his German.
But ending the order meant that the state withheld $47 million that would have gone to programs to improve minority achievement.
Since the hijackings, the F.B.I. and the C.I.A. have gone to great lengths to improve coöperation, and C.I.A. personnel are assigned to F.B.I. offices.
