British telecom giant and Verizon Wireless co-owner Vodafone could also make a play, divesting itself of its Verizon interests, under the theory that having all of the number three carrier is better than half of number two.
"I thought our second half performance was better than the first half, " added Hodgson.
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Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, Gen McChrystal, who commanded coalition forces in 2009-10 before being forced to resign after a magazine interview, said the US and Nato allies were "a little better than" half way to achieving their military goals.
"The second half of the fiscal year will be slightly better than the first half, and we expect growth to be around 6% during the period, " he added.
On average, such funds will perform better than at least half the higher-cost, actively-managed funds.
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We started the second half far better than we did at any time in the first half when Celtic had 11 men on the pitch.
In either scenario, one can expect plenty of volatility ahead and many opportunities to earn better rates of return than half a percent a year.
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Arsenal began the second half better than they started the second, with Russian Andrey Arshavin firing over from Marouane Chamakh's low ball before the Moroccan himself saw his effort smothered by Mignolet.
So half of everyone else in the country was doing better than they were, and the other half not as well.
I'm sure we will realise that there are better ways of assessing patients than half empty beer barrels.
His tip is Leicester by five because Andy Goode will run the game better than replacement Wasps fly-half Riki Flutey.
Sir Kenneth said there was no evidence to suggest 10 pence would be a better figure than 11 and a half pence or 4 pence.
Despite that, the hosts were putting up a much better showing than their first-half display and Tom Heaton was called into action to deny Forte as Ian Baraclough's men threw everything forward.
Anthony seems convinced that Knicks don't need to do anything other than stay healthy and build on a first half that has gone far better than most expected.
They tended to choose funds that had done better than their previous holdings (277 basis points better, about half on relative gains and half because the previous funds declined in comparison).
"With a round of golf, you have them for the whole day which is a lot better than a 20-minute or half-hour sales call, " Mr. Gillis said.
But she stormed to an impressive win in the afternoon session in a time of three minutes, 14.38 seconds - almost half a second better than her previous best.
While "The Avengers" fared better, with a little more than half of sales coming from 3-D tickets, it's not even close to the 83% 3-D revenue that "Avatar" enjoyed in December 2009.
Slightly less than half of respondents described corporate profits as either being good or better than expected.
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One is that the embryonic birds in the favoured eggs really do have better genetic health than their less-favoured half-siblings.
In Britain, where better records have been kept, more than half the native bumblebee species either have become extinct or are facing extinction in the next few decades.
"And, if anything, the second half tends to be seasonally better than the first, " the analyst adds.
Today we live in a world that's demonstrably better off than it was a decade and a half ago.
And Bill Gates--who knows the value of a monopoly better than just about anyone--spent nearly half a billion dollars to make sure that it was running Microsoft software.
"We've played a lot of basketball in the last month, and I don't think anyone's played better against us than Australia did in that first half, " U.S. coach Geno Auriemma said.
Indeed the supposedly ineffective, bumbling, and rotten Russian government has formulated one of the more effective responses to the 2009 economic crisis, a response considerably more effective than the uncoordinated and half-hearted measures seen in most of the EU and far better than the actively harmful response of the UK government.
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Many Germans are sceptical: more than half doubt that things will get better.
It shows that the Americans do about half a percentage point better every year than the British, a small enough number to start with, but one that can rapidly become large when compounded over time.
But still, about half the countries in the world do better than that.
We finished the second half well but you have to start better than that if you want to win.
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