Despite those solid gains, improvement haven't come as far and fast as we would have liked, and the achievement gains remains disturbing.

It's a vehicle that goes forward about two generations. Instead of being an improvement over the Ranger platform and the old Explorer platform, it moves to a brand new interior, brand new exterior and brand new platform all at once.

That achievement acknowledges that improvement is a team effort.

Whatever we do will be a massive improvement to what we have now.

Chinese enterprises have made notable achievement on technical renovation and management improvement through cooperation with foreign countries. Their products can meet the UN's demand not only in terms of price but also in quality.

Much of the improvement in confidence can be attributed to the resiliency of the economy post-Katrina and the recent declines in fuel prices.