With an eye toward the bulk of their market, they dramatically upgraded the performance of midprice cassette decks during the last year or so.

A substantial job "dramatically upgrading the appearance and the feature portfolio," said Joseph Phillippi, an analyst at Auto Trends Consulting in Short Hills, N.J. Start with a sunroof, which costs a few hundred dollars, Mr. Phillippi said.

A1 Cuomo declares Decade of Child B5 Dr. Richard R. Green shaped an elaborate five-year plan that dramatically upgraded Minneapolis schools and made him a leading educational innovator who has especially aided minority children.

After defeating an insurrection by Filipino nationalists, the United States engaged in a large-scale program to modernize the economy of the Philippines and dramatically upgrade the public health facilities.

The most obviously beneficial move would be to upgrade dramatically the nation's public health and epidemiological surveillance systems, which constitute one of the few tools available for dealing with a biological attack (a step that would have much wider benefits as well).

After that event, measures were undertaken to dramatically upgrade pumping capacity.

"It's a function of channel capacity, which cable operators are upgrading dramatically, and Classic figures to be one of the top 10 services they add."

In 1966 Puey became the dean of the Faculty of Economics at his alma mater, Thammasat University, where his work with the Rockefeller Foundation and with foreign scholars dramatically upgraded the training of Thailand's future technocrats.

The renovation and expansion of the high school facilities allowed FRA to dramatically upgrade its technological capabilities.