The White House complains that the left is making the best the enemy of the good.
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Unfortunately we have verified once more the validity of that saying: "The best is the enemy of the good!"
He says the Muslim world is "offering the best of its men and sacrificing the good of its sons... to protect its ideology".
Texas trounced the rest of the country our latest survey of the Best Cities for Good Jobs, with five metropolitan areas in the Top Ten, including the four best cities to find jobs in the next few years.
ScienceBlogs, the blog network run by privately held Seed Media, which also publishes the eponymous magazine, is one of the best places to find good science writing on the Web.
The schemes on offer from this government are not the best, far from it, but here the best need not be the enemy of the good.
In the Financials sector, neither the active management of mutual funds nor the passive management of ETFs does a good job of identifying the best stocks the sector has to offer.
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Senator Kyle comes across as the controlling spouse who knows the best defense is a good offense, the kind of spouse who is definitely hiding something: an affair? a big lie about money? both?
Talk to elderly Cariocas (as present or former residents of the city are known) about the favelas of the 1950s and they often turn misty-eyed, recalling peaceful places with the best views in the city and plenty of good live music.
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"From a charitable standpoint, he always felt that if he was able to find organizations where there were good people with good ideas and the opportunity to get funds directly to those people, that was the best use of his good fortune, " said Mr. Levinson.
"It's a case of the best defense is a good offense, " he says of the approach.
Indeed, a full 25% of the recent best seller (and otherwise very good book) the Start Up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha, a work designed to help you navigate your career, is devoted to explaining how networking is vital to your future.
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The chairman of the Federal Reserve did his best to promote the good news: he drew attention to the benefits of lower oil prices, the end of the war in Iraq and what he called the continuing solid gains from productivity growth.
The best form of welfare is a good, high-paying job, and the best tax for creating jobs is a low-rate flat tax.
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The generals are not good administrators at the best of times, and the health system is a shambles.
During this time engineers figure out the next best way to put the phone together, as well as finding the best weight and the best components for certain models, so that the actual size of them feel good in our hands.
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The guild award is often a good indicator of the best director category at the Academy Awards.
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The best quality of good movie posters is that they truly understand the movies they represent.
The inflow of foreign experts is needed to learn best practices and create a good environment for the work of our experts.
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But we continue to make the case and work with the leaders of Congress and other willing participants among the rank and file that this is the approach that will best serve the American people, will best serve the economy, and will best serve the political interests of everyone because doing the right thing in this case is good politics.
Some banks which performed best during the crisis flouted the rules of good corporate governance: Santander had a familial culture and a powerful executive chairman.
In a mutually reciprocal system, as each individual cares for the best beneficial good of others and for humanity and the planet that we share as a whole, it turns out that this system of mutual reciprocity, in fact, will logically and practically take care of each individual, as well.
He looked you straight in the eye and always believed the best of you, unless you gave him good cause not to.
Silver said Tuesday that he believed at the time he was acting in good faith in the best interest of the victims.
Though the ears of family and friends are surely subject to a good deal of venting, the best person to share frustrations with is usually an empathetic colleague.
When the plan collapsed, his prospects, none too good in even the best of circumstances, looked worse than ever, and Mr Paisley's still better.
Unlike Arabs, Jews accepted what was offered by the UN in 1947 as the least good, and then worked hard to make the best of the circumstances provided.
Ultimately, the online retail market seems likely to favour just two models: the best-of-breed specialists such as Amazon, and the good-enough-for-everything megastores.
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Both products abandoned the "do everything poorly" philosophy that permeated the low-end flash camcorder space and were recently upgraded to enable more recording time, and have best captured the new spirit of short, good quality video clips that are now dominating the Web.
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It meant a comfortable gig with good pay, prestige, the opportunity to mix with the great and good of business, politics and academia and, perhaps best of all, the kind of job security enjoyed now only by popes.
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