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Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach.

Many people think voice over artists just read, there's much more to it. Without acting beats, scene study and improving skills, you won't make it.

The Screen Directors Guild was organized solely by and for the motion picture director... We are not anti-anything: The Guild being formed for the purpose of assisting and improving the director's work in the form of a collective body, rather than as an individual, as was necessary in the past.

With the common Iranian threat bringing the Sunni Arab world and Israel closer together, an Israeli-Palestinian peace would go a long way in improving relations and rebuffing Iran's regional ambitions.

Intuit's mission, values, and culture of innovation set us apart as a great place to work. Our 8,000 employees are innovators and entrepreneurs that are inspired by the important work they do that is delighting customers and improving the financial lives of millions of people.

Many climate change deniers would have you believe that addressing climate change is all pain and no gain. This is simply not true. We can tackle this challenge while improving our personal health and the health of our economy. These are not competing interests; they go hand in hand.

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.

Tens of billions of dollars could be saved in Medicare and Medicaid alone by eliminate fraud and improving patient care. Not only would this save money, but it will save lives.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.

In sum, as we enter the 21st century, the Euro-Atlantic community - North America and Europe together - has to face some tough challenges when it comes to improving our capability.

When we get together and rehearse, which is always living with each other, we always talk about what would make it better, what would mean more, what would say more. So we're always improving and growing.

Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.

Whether it was turning around failing companies, rescuing the Olympics, or improving the business climate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has proven that he is ready to be president on Day One.

I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.

Even though it is the case that poverty is linked to AIDS, in the sense that Africa is poor and they have a lot of AIDS, it's not necessarily the case that improving poverty - at least in the short run, that improving exports and improving development - it's not necessarily the case that that's going to lead to a decline in HIV prevalence.

Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world.

These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.

I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.

Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans.

Not only do the majority of senior women executives have sports in their background, they recognize that the behaviors and techniques learned through sports are critical to motivating teams and improving performance in a corporate environment.

We are going through tough economic times but things are looking up, and the indicators are improving not only for large corporations but also for small business.

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

I believe in myself, and that's why I take criticism. You need to be very strong to survive in Bollywood. If someone calls me a bad actress, I won't live with it but will work towards improving myself.

Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the quality and value of care, doctors, hospitals, patients, and entrepreneurs across the nation are demonstrating that smarter, better, more accessible, and more proactive care is the best way to improve quality and control health care costs.

'Green' cannot be allowed to become an excuse for stealth taxes. And nor should 'green taxes' be about punishment. Instead, they should represent a switch of emphasis. So if domestic flights are taxed, it should be on the absolute condition that the money is ploughed into improving the alternatives, such as trains.

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.

Jamie Oliver, quite rightly, was talking about trying to improve the diet of children in schools and improving school meals, but the net effect was the number of children eating school meals in many of these places didn't go up, it went down.

We should make a major financial commitment to improving our roads and bridges.

I'm condemned by some inner compulsion to think about the daily rituals of my life. I have a low grade fever for improving myself in many ways, including everyday tasks.

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

Improving the Internet is just one means, albeit an important one, by which to improve the human condition. It must be done with an appreciation for the civil and human rights that deserve protection - without pretending that access itself is such a right.

My advice to organizations I work with is always to be proactive rather than simply reactive when it comes to human rights issues. After all, the important process of improving company policies and practices must be carried out without having to be prompted by a labour strike, factory collapse or other crisis.

One of the primary reasons for improving wireless support is to give companies the tools to put FreeBSD into their wireless devices. The guy at FreeBSD who is adding wireless support is under contract from wireless companies to do the work.

My task is to play a coordinating role between all stakeholders and encourage governments of this region to link humanitarian relief assistance to long-term development aimed at improving food security.

One of the challenges is that when you get scores like that in the upper 80s or better, improving on that is increasingly difficult.

On the first day of practice the running game was a concern. But the running game is one of the areas that's probably improving the fastest on offense. I'm really fired up about Jon Cornish.

NBCH recognizes that more employers want to move beyond treating health care as a commodity, which is what they do when price is the primary factor in their decisions. Informed employers are looking for resources to help them make use of quality and other performance metrics that are now available. The good news is that improving the quality of health care contributes to cost reduction as well. The eValue8 data is one more tool available to our members in determining the best health plan for their business and employees.

New-store growth is a significant contributor to our goal of making Family Dollar a compelling place to shop and invest. As we have indicated, this year we are focused on improving our new-store opening processes and increasing our new-store productivity to drive better returns to our shareholders.

I was pleased with our performance tonight in a pressure-packed situation. We're looking forward to improving on a couple events next year but overall our performance tonight was a big improvement from last year.

Nobody escapes from this. Everyone in the valley is exposed to some degree. But there are a lot of options to combat this, and the benefits of improving the air quality are substantial.

When I had the opportunity to win, I did. But I think I will play better. If I keep improving I definitely feel confident I can win it again.

My horse didn't start off too great, but he's improving finally. He was immature a little bit, but he's starting to fill out.

Like any large city, they're interested in reducing their traffic and improving their environment. People are changing their behavior.

One of the things that's unique about this is that part of the proceeds go back into improving the Christensen Field agriculture facilities.

No doubt bears will highlight the rise in continuing claims, up another 29,000, but we are unmoved: A rising ratio of continuing to initial claims signals accelerating productivity growth, not a shaky recovery, ... Labor market conditions are improving -- but we still expect a soft payroll report Friday.

One thing we will be focusing on in 2006 is improving our services to small businesses. We're setting up feedback groups to help small businesses and we plan to launch more programs specific to them.

One-third of the production in OPEC is deteriorating and doesn't have very good prospects of improving in the short run.

One of the beauties of this program is that it can address troubled stocks of native, sea-run fish while improving water quality and boosting local economies, by increasing the numbers of anglers and boaters drawn to an area.

More North Carolina students are taking the SAT and they are improving their scores every single year.

Moreover, I don't see diminished housing-price appreciation as a major problem for consumer spending, since again, the primary determinant of spending is income, and we see solid and improving prospects for real incomes for the nation as a whole.

My dad always says that Rome wasn't built in a day, ... We've come a long way in three years and I look for us to keep moving forward and to keep improving things.

Plenty of credit should go to Allison and Crystal for getting a high seed in their first year of tennis. Right now, they are good athletes playing tennis and rapidly improving their skills.

Perez is developing into a nice high post player with a high shot release. His confidence is improving in only his second year of organized basketball.

Nothing is going to happen in terms of improving confidence until something happens in terms of an improving labor market, and that might well take until after New Year's.

Now our errors are not killing us. Our mentality is improving too. It was a good weekend for us.

Now that we've accomplished the monumental task of restructuring, our next focus will be on incrementally improving our operations. Going forward we will be challenging ourselves to operate as efficiently as possible, leverage our core strengths and bring customer service to the highest levels of performance.

Obviously, his size is an advantage. He's got good feet for a big man. He played up front in his early days, so he's got good feet and is good on the ball. He needs to keep improving as he is certainly being pushed from behind by some of the young kids. It's good to have that competition as well.

Obviously my ball striking is good when it's on, and that's why I've had some really good results recently. I've been gradually improving my short game over the last couple of years. I'm just happy to be up and playing well early on in the season because I had my best year last year, and when you have a bit of winter break, you never know how it's going to start.

Obviously, the easy thing is to add more policemen, and we're doing that. A lot of communities in the U.S. have seen a correlation between improving neighborhoods and reducing crime.

Obviously, the economy is improving and business owners are optimistic. Small business owners are saying that they will be hiring people, expanding facilities, even investing additional funding in their business.

Now that the settlement is done, RIM can work on improving their relationship with their customers.

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Now we are not considered favorites, but we fear nobody. We have no pressure on us. That is to say if we don't win, we lose everything. Egypt are improving steadily, are confident and will have the little matter of 74,000 people supporting them in an incredible atmosphere.

Now we have the best performance we've ever had in the Olympics. Bam! It's done. We did it on the first day. Now it takes the pressure off and we can just focus on improving the performance aspects.

Peter is really improving. He's improving his places and that's what I am looking at right now.

Pharmacists have many clients needing help and they are trying their best. Getting through this period is just the first hurdle. They we have to work on improving the inadequacies in the legislation.

People vote with their feet. We think that's telling. All of our economic policy decisions in the foreseeable future should be made with an eye toward improving that figure. We can't sit back while New York morphs from the Empire State into the emptying state.

People wanted more hours. There wasn't as much mention about online appointment systems or improving technology in general.

Returns to airlines are slowly improving but are far from allowing long-term financial sustainability.

I have confidence in any keeper they put in the goal. We have a veteran defense that is ready to help her out and keep the ball from going into the net. They've all done a great job this spring with pushing each other every day and improving these last two months.

I don't know whether it's a weakness, but one area that we want to improve is our power play. Our penalty killing has to improve, too. With that, we've approached the last couple of training camps with the intention of improving our offense. Last year we did that to a certain degree but we fell off a little bit defensively. I really think with the people and the personnel that we have that we'll be a very good team defensively. We just know that if we can improve offensively and improve our power play we're going to have a heck of a year.

If we're entering a time when people can improve their health, then it's important to be improving your wealth as well. If you're going to live into your 90s in good health, then you're going to need money.

If they can keep improving week in and week out, they're going to have a fun year. If they go out, make mental mistakes and not stay focused, it can be an ugly night.

If they demonstrate improving revenue growth, they could get $20 a share.

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Layoffs always are higher late in the year, ... All (the layoff report numbers) suggest that we are still improving compared to last year and there is little real evidence of slippage this month. The slippage was from August to September, but September to October is good number.

Layoffs always are higher late in the year. All (the layoff report numbers) suggest that we are still improving compared to last year and there is little real evidence of slippage this month. The slippage was from August to September, but September to October is good number.

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

There are two important things to remember about 'entitlements': They are hugely popular programs for a very good reason, and actual sensible 'reform' would mean improving them, not sacrificing them at the altar of 'fiscal responsibility.'

We're concentrating on continuing to better ourselves. You want to win over another team, but there's nothing you can do to stop them. We have to focus on improving ourselves.

We're continuing to make upward progress, ... I think the improving economic conditions in Tulsa are helping, people are more confident to spend money on travel.

We're looking at every point in the process, from scheduling to post-discharge care, because our data shows that hospitals who manage their key service lines in this manner are successful in collaborating with their medical staff. That performance-based collaboration is the key to improving all aspects of performance, including reducing implant costs.

Momentum is very important heading into the playoffs, and I'm just so proud of our guys right now. I think we get better each and every week, and now we can focus on improving our seeding.

Milan has more experience than us and that's important. It's also true that they have won more titles and have had more success than we have but we are improving and we cannot stop now. We have a 50% chance to go through to the final.

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Since the 1997 model year, Ford vehicles have been improving on a consistent basis. This year is a bit of an exception. The Focus is one of those vehicles that hasn't aged gracefully.

Mobile CRM solutions are improving customer focus and putting field sales and service forces together at the center of corporate revenue responsibility. Mobile CRM is showing its real value by helping performance-driven organizations sell smarter, deliver highly personalized services, and enjoy higher levels of customer satisfaction by delivering time-critical information to field personnel, when they need it most.

Motorola's growth in sales has continued to accelerate, and our earnings are on an improving trend. We are especially pleased by the results in our new Broadband Communications Sector, which was formed after the merger with General Instrument, the improvements in our network systems business, and the sequential growth in quarterly earnings for semiconductors.

Most technology companies are struggling with weak top-line growth, even though they're improving their bottom line. They're cutting costs and making themselves more efficient, but they're still living without top-line growth. That's tough.

She is a solid player, the one to beat in tomorrow's final. I lost to a great player today. She is playing her best tennis. However, I wouldn't say that I am playing bad tennis. I am improving with every outing. I know there are certain areas in which I can improve.

She has been improving all season long and really peaked at just the right time.

She has been improving a lot, ... The coaches have been working on her on talking more. She so big that she can intimidate the opposing team. Now if we can get her to be a little meaner on the court.

She has had a really good week. She's beaten some good players. Just have to keep improving with every match. It's going to get tougher and tougher as you go along in the tournament.

Maintaining cordial relationship with friends help us in improving upon our own capabilities.

shares my commitment to improving every Marylander's access to a college education.

Many school systems are going to continue having to do more with less when they believed the improving economy was going to lift that burden from them.