As a child, she read, played the piano and had an imaginary friend named Bettering.

The net result will be a bettering of the standard of living in every nation involved.

"If there were actions on the hostages, we are ready for a bettering of relations," an American official said.

Raffles are also sold at this event in order to raise more funds for the bettering of the school.

It must be nurtured for the bettering of all."

But for the most part, the improved profitability in the quarter came from a bettering of the banks' core businesses.

Indeed, they firmly resolve to use their power only for the bettering of their fellows."

This place was officially called the Philadelphia Bettering House.

He sees his methods and his advances much as a doctor does a relief of suffering, an improvement, a bettering."

'Hunt is a legend here but if I go on and beat his all-time record I think it'll take some bettering.

Their focus isn't on the bettering of humanity or even their community, no matter what their PR department says.

As a result, that is why the Beat philosophy stressed importance on the bettering of the inner self and the rejection of materialism.

Edward created a "Preservative and other Dentifrices" for the bettering of dental hygiene during his time as a Dentist.

But I know your power, and I want to modify a portion of that power-flow to my own satisfaction and to the bettering of the world.

The public are invited to submit applications for records, which can be either the bettering of existing records or substantial achievements which could constitute a new record.

The money that was put into the project was well spent and it is all for the bettering of education for everyone at Highland Springs High School.

During 1995-2005, Khatami's administration successfully reduced the rate of fall in the value of the Iranian Rial bettering even the record of Mousavi.

Sense from Sequences: Stephen F. Altschul on Bettering BLAST.

Many dedicated citizens contribute to the further bettering of the town's appearance through donations, street festivals and hands-on work, and to the building and expansion of a civic culture.

"The Italian postal service has for some time been committed to the bettering of its services," Paolo Di Prima, the Italian postal services spokesman, said in an e-mail message.

This was preceded two weeks earlier by a bettering of the 10,000 m world junior record by a margin of almost 23 seconds in the IAAF Golden League Van Damme Memorial Race on 26 August.

In March 2004, Redfield received the World View Award from the Wisdom Media Group for engaging the discussion on the nature of human existence and for his ongoing efforts and contributions to the bettering of humanity.

Indeed, many white people walk on one brand or another of eggshells around blacks - especially around intelligent, articulate black Americans - this, even though we know that only actual interracial contact can hope to bring about a bettering of our shared lives.

Not only did he fashion the program that was to put mankind into the galaxy-what he terms the Dream-he fostered the substantial bettering of the human condition throughout the Solar System, benefiting the downtrodden and abused folk as much as the leaders.

In the process, the national attention lavished on him for his pursuit and then his bettering of Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games is credited with helping to bring baseball out of the malaise it had suffered after the players' strike of 1994.

The world was a better place while you were here.

Is one of those a better reason not to work than another?

Asked whether 2006 would be better than 2005, 57 percent said yes.

But I feel we can do a lot better job.

He has a better sense of these things, which is good.

Being on the field is better than where I was three years ago.

He has six other children, and they are better off.

Could he give us a better sense of his parents?

Do they tell us who would be a better president?

He's got a far better short game than I ever had.

Our world is a better place for your having been among us.

For the better part of six years, he was lost.

And we've got to do a better job of making our case.

Parents should want their children to have better lives than they did.

Well, he did a better job than a lot of men.

They believe the family will be able to move to a better house.

All of us were better off for having known him.

The life over here is a lot better for me.

And the better the job, the less important money seems to be.

The country is not better off now than when he took office.

We've been pretty good and the question was how do we get better?

And if they get a better deal, the others will not go along.

But a better question is where the money's now going.

And he is looking for better ways to market the area itself.

And they will probably be all the better for the experience.

Things will look better in the morning, she told him.

And I have no idea whether the world is getting better.

But I'd certainly love to get to know him a little bit better.

I hope we can make more better in the next game.

Better to know what you want to do with your life, he says.

And at least one of them is talking better, too.

He wanted to do something to make himself feel better.

Better to be without them and see one another as you really are.

And every summer I would work on those things to become better.

I want to do everything possible to make their lives better.

We want to make the Government work better and cost less.

Better yet, he seems to have a mind of his own.

He would have made 11 or even 12, if things had gone better.

And then the next one will be done a little bit better.

But each has made summer in the city just a little bit better.

Nothing looks better in the summer than white, especially at night.

But perhaps a little thought can make things just a bit better.

I'm to come with him to see something even better.

What I can do is support the group to make the team better.

As for security issues, things are not going much better.

All three seem to be better now than they were then.

And in any case, money alone will not make the schools work better.

Before we had a difficult time and now life is getting better.

For one thing, they said the food was better back home.

We do even better with the rest of the world.