betterment

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Projects are complicated by cities that can withhold permits and seek betterments as leverage when the agency closes a street or builds a station, the report says.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Then he walked out, threatening to hold his men out two more months, if necessary, to get the penny and some contract betterments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Today C. & O. is in magnificent physical condition and the most consistently profitable major road in the U. S. But a railroad is never finished because it always needs money for "additions and betterments."

From Time Magazine Archive

The surplus, after paying all dividends and appropriations, was $29,632,442, of which $25,000,000 was voted for additions and betterments of plants and properties.

From Time Magazine Archive

And if it is true that difficulties and discomforts are to be feared during the transition period, they should be more than outweighed by the splendid betterments to be hoped for.

From Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Münsterberg, Hugo