Among other achievements, FitzRoy improved the barometer, pioneered the use of statistics to track the weather, created Britain's storm-warning system, and established the government bureau that would later become the Met Office, the British equivalent of the National Weather Service.
I'll have a better barometer this week".
I'm staring at the exhibit list: "Improved Pump" (boring), "Large Map" (even more boring), "Barometers" (ok, vaguely interesting).
Here the U.S. team is a useful barometer for measuring how much international play has improved.
He also said that some important barometers of Zimbabwe's quality of life had improved significantly under the power-sharing relationship, pointing to closed hospitals that had reopened, textbooks provided to grammar schools and improved sanitation.
And much-battered technology shares improved, thanks partly to Microsoft's good results, though IBM then dampened the mood again.See article: Barometer on the trade deficitEncyclopædia Britannica, faced with falling sales, went online free.
The survey's barometer of current economic conditions rose to 87.2 from 82.9, while its gauge of consumer expectations improved to 74.3 from 72.3.
Essentially, accreditation processes have core normative concerns to provide barometers of performance by ensuring that organisations satisfy pre-designated standards, are regularly examined and continuously improved and embrace customer satisfaction [ 16].
The employment barometer was short of the break-even point, signaling that the service sector was still losing jobs, even though employment had gradually improved.
Based on the relations, the first metaphoric futures map has been created, and it will develop, improve, and expand alongside the Barometer process (Fig. 11).
