Some polls for the Scottish Parliament suggest that Labour may be doing even better there than at the time of the 1995 local elections.

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Will we be better off if more Americans get a better education? (Applause.) Will we better off if we depend less on foreign oil and more on our own ingenuity? (Applause.) Will we be better off if we start doing some nation-building at home?

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But simply doing something because it must be better than doing nothing strikes me as a foolish endeavor or at least terribly risky.

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If Johnston beats back the assault from Wal-Mart, it will be hard to know whether sales motivation or better throughput at the warehouses is doing the trick.

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At the moment, China appears to be doing the better.

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At least for the present, Mr Kabila seems to be doing better from the peace accord signed last July than his adversaries are.

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These companies grew at least 10% over the last twelve months and might be doing even better in twelve months' time.

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Mr. THOMPSON: ...we're looking at that, but we're just going to have to be a little bit better at not letting the tractors sit around in idle while we're doing an odd job.

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With so many FTSE companies earning more than 80% of their sales abroad, you would think they would be doing at least as well as other markets, in dollar terms, if not rather better.

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