Besides, they fret, why assume that county jails will be any better than state prisons?
But the government is not going to run the company any better than the former management.
In terms of wins and losses, his comeback couldn't be going any better than it is.
The question for today is whether the contrarian view is any better than a follow-the-ratings strategy.
Unlike the metric system, however, the new standard is not clearly any better than the old.
President Obama--who, unlike Roosevelt, actually attended the affair--didn't distinguish himself any better than did his celebrated predecessor.
But scientists aren't sure no-till really sequesters carbon any better than conventional farming.
Patients didn't report feeling any better than those on diuretics, yet they returned to the hospital half as often.
"I'd tell my employees 'it may not get any better than this but it sure gets worse, '" he said.
One big unanswered question is whether the latest mergers will perform any better than those during other waves of mergers.
When results were finally released they showed the pill was not preventing arteries from thickening any better than a cheap generic.
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And there is no certainty that the medical world will be able to prevent its spread any better than in 1968.
It's been a long December for RIM, and there's reason to believe this year won't be any better than the last.
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In none of these will it be easy to find a compromise that is any better than the lowest common denominator.
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Nor is it clear that he will be any better than Miss Megawati at dealing with those who would break Indonesia apart.
It's not clear to me that the best Australian universities are any better than they were or for that matter, more efficient.
The question is, does it look any better than Beyond: Two Souls?
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It deflates their egos wonderfully: they do hardly any better than laymen.
In the aftermath of the Battle of Seattle, no single objection to the WTO may stand out any better than it has before.
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If the global economic rebound simply maintains momentum, Guess? looks attractively priced and could see big upside from any better than expected improvement.
But it remains to be seen whether these companies can indeed persuade consumers that they are any better than the traditional utility companies.
But there is little in Mr Voronin's economic programme to suggest that a reunited Moldova would live any better than a disunited one.
But the BlackBerry doesn't handle lengthy e-mail any better than the Palm VII--its smaller screen transforms even medium-length messages into marathon scrolling exercises.
There was no substantial evidence to suggest that liquid is any better than solid carbohydrate intake and there were no studies in children .
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That balance has never been described any better than by Jack Kemp whose political aspirations and economic thinking were dominated by the worldview of Wanniski.
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If you had asked us on the day of the launch in January, we would have told you that it simply can't get any better than this.
In any case, Microsoft has yet to show anything that makes Windows 8 look or sound any better than the current crop of operating systems.
But having seen the film, Johansson conceded she could not have performed any better than Anne Hathaway, who won a Bafta for her role in the film.
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