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The Boss offers a modest improvement on that number, with a debut of £595,000 from 439 venues.

Howard Archer, an economist at IHS Global Insight, said the modest improvement on last year was "reassuring for the chancellor".

Its opening number of £131,000 is a modest improvement on Cronenberg's last film, Cosmopolis, which began with £117,000 from 62 venues.

He has qualities that could be the basis for a great chief executive, not just a modest improvement on the incumbent.

(Manohla Dargis) 'THE AMITYVILLE HORROR' (R, 89 minutes) Low-key creepy rather than outright scary, this remake of the soporific 1979 horror flick marks a modest improvement on the original.

Granting even a modest improvement on last year's numbers – 21.4 points, 13 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 1.4 blocks per 36 minutes – Cousins could make his first all-star team this season.

In the present study, we observed no change in FMD after PS intake compared with control, whereas we anticipated a modest improvement of 0.5 pp based on the combined evidence from FMD studies with phytosterols (26).

Indeed, testing 2D VBGMMs on these data showed a modest improvement of the results (30% of the cases were improved).

In summary, based on the available data it is not possible to ascertain whether the lack of positive effects on CV outcomes with insulin glargine may be due to inability, on top of modest improvement of glycemic control, to assure concomitant amelioration of insulin sensitivity, plasma FFA, or lipid profile.

On other issues, the three rebel senators achieved only modest improvements on the White House's original positions.

Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary Grahame Smith said: "Despite modest improvements on a couple of indicators, including youth unemployment, the picture in Scotland is essentially one of 12-month stagnation in the employment market and some worrying trends on women's unemployment.