Even retiring veterans, like Carroll, 52, need to move to a place with better-than-average employment opportunities.
This self-confidence may be innate, just as most people think they are better-than-average drivers.
Audiences turn up with the expectation that club managers will pick better-than-average bands.
This week the U.S. Consumer Electronics Association predicted better-than-average sales for consumer electronics, led by tablets.
Watch out for the Sunday Walking Street, which has better-than-average products and a good dose of provincial culture.
As with other lucrative blue-collar occupations, these trades take training, but they promise steady work and better-than-average wages.
These include low cost index-tracking choices for those who do not think that they can pick a better-than-average investment manager.
Fund of fund managers need to pick not just better-than-average funds to produce incremental return, but among the best, concludes Bernstein.
The detail of Sainsbury's better-than-average trading performance for the 14 weeks to 5 January confirm the big trends in retailing and consumer spending.
With this spirit, local papers have a better-than-average chance of surviving.
Just as everyone thinks himself a better-than-average driver, these results (assuming that they are honest) suggest people are more willing to see sin in others than in themselves.
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Among, say, people from either country who are studying outside their homeland (and have a better-than-average chance of becoming decision-makers), the share of trans-Aegean links would be far higher.
If you've found yourself even mildly obsessed with style, art or design over the past score, there's a better-than-average chance you've got a Nicholas Callaway book on your coffee table.
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Chances are there was a family backing them (if only to get a better-than-average education) or a small-business benefactor in the mix somewhere in the depths of their personal history.
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We've crunched some numbers to illustrate how, for those who carry a balance over each month, even a better-than-average rebate can leave you no better off than a low-interest rate card.
Li is one of 26 of the territory's fastest movers featured in this collection of interviews and black-and-white photographs, one of two better-than-average coffee table books on the territory recently published (see below).
Turns out it was filed in the Eastern District of Texas, a hotbed for patent trolls who know that they stand a better-than-average chance of winning simply because of where their issues are being taken up.
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In contrast to the better-than-average performance of the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states, when examining the states where economic mobility is suffering, a new trend emerges: All nine of the states highlighted by Pew a underperforming against the national average fall south of the Mason Dixon line.
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But when Stephen Gorard of the University of Wales presented research at an academic conference that indicated that the intake of Welsh-medium schools was better-off than average, and that this helped to account for their superior academic results, outraged dons shouted him down.
If the market does better--say, 12%, a little better than the average 10-year annual return after previous catastrophic downturns--it will still only show a 20-year return (through December 2019) of 3.38%.
Power and Associates studies Mercedes-Benz scored better than the industry average for initial quality but worse than the industry average for longer-term dependability.
The second-ranked airline in terms of overall quality was low-cost airline Jet Blue, which posted better than average performance in terms of on-time arrivals, mishandled bags and customer complaints.
For example, with a Likeability index of 193, the top ranked Oreo ad has proven to be 93% better-liked than the average new commercial during the measured period.
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Their pupils come from the best-off homes, but they turn out 15-year-olds who do no better than the average child across the OECD.
He outlined procurement schemes which were saving millions of pounds every year, and said that council in Wales were receiving better settlements than were councils in England - on average 1.3% better according to Mr Sargeant.
One of the best buys among mall REIT stocks is Taubman Centers, which Green Street expects will get a 12.9% boost in AFFO this year, or 1.7 points better than its five-year average.
One of the best buys among mall REIT stocks is Taubman Centers, (nyse: TCO-G - news - people ) which Green Street expects will get a 12.9% boost in AFFO this year, or 1.7 points better than its five-year average.
The UK as a whole, if you can take more figures, stands at 110.7% - better off than the European average, in other words.
Its criteria include: a better than average price-earnings ratio over the past five years, a positive growth rate in earnings per share over the past 12 months, and a positive operating margin over the past 12 months.
That is, they've done better than average over 10-year, five-year, three-year and one-year periods.
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