The performance of computers improves at an astounding rate, perhaps unlike any other machine in the world.

"I feel that Goodyear is a position to maybe improve at a better rate than the rest of them."

A. There is no arguing that productivity has been improving at a historically unprecedented rate, particularly in the past five years.

The school district is struggling to improve its food at a painfully slow rate.

U.S. manufacturers improved their productivity at an annual rate of more than 5 percent in the third quarter.

However, the government said academies' results had improved at a faster rate than those of other schools.

But the department also reported that manufacturing productivity improved at an anemic annual rate of 1.4 percent.

During the mid-1950s, the performance of the new surface to air missiles was improving at an enormous rate.

"What I see are people who are trying to improve at an extremely fast rate," he said.

So far productivity has improved at an average annual rate of 1.4 percent since July 1990, the start of the current business cycle.