He expended much time and effort in 2008 marshalling arguments to see the bid off, believing that it seriously undervalued Rio and that his company was better alone.
The shrimpers reply that better marketing alone won't keep them in business, and that a big advertising blitz would eat up money few of them have.
Realizing that better processes alone will never overcome these imperfections, the Stanford engineers managed to circumvent the barriers using a unique imperfection-immune design paradigm to produce the first-ever full-wafer-scale digital logic structures that are unaffected by misaligned and mis-positioned CNTs.
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In 2008, an artery-imaging study failed to show that Vytorin prevented atherosclerosis better than Zocor alone.
It was expected that combining Zetia and Zocor, an off-patent statin, would do this better than Zocor alone.
So there is no proof that Liptruzet prevents heart attacks, strokes, or other cardiovascular complications better than atorvastatin alone.
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Standard chemotherapy and Iressa, given together, do not work better than chemo alone.
All in all, there is no major industrialized economy with universal coverage that has performed as well--let alone better--than the United States in the last decade.
In fact, in 2008 a study using ultrasound images of arteries failed to show that the combination of Zetia and simvastatin prevented artery hardening any better than simvastatin alone.
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Then along came high-powered pills like Merck's Zocor and Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Lipitor--and these wound up working far better than diet alone ever did.
Arimidex failed another test as well: Data show that the two drugs given together worked no better than tamoxifen alone over a three-year period--even though Arimidex bested tamoxifen over the same time frame.
In a 1993 article co-written with Gerard Caprio, an economist at the Bank, Mr Summers argued that it was unrealistic to expect better bank supervision alone to forestall bank failures in poor countries.
Yet there were no public relations efforts in New York or on the West Coast to persuade American technology correspondents that the Japanese system was better, let alone that it should be adopted in the United States.
In ENHANCE, Vytorin, a combo pill of Schering-Plough's Zetia and Merck's now-generic Zocor, failed to do better than Zocor alone in preventing atherosclerosis, leading to the sales decline and big drops in the stock prices of both companies.
The study tests whether Vytorin, which is a combination of Schering-Plough's (nyse: SGP - news - people ) Zetia and Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) Zocor, prevents heart attacks, strokes and deaths better than Zocor alone.
They found that subjects who used both intuition and analysis did better than subjects using either alone, and furthermore, subjects who used intuition first did better than subjects who used analysis first.
Then, on Aug. 19, AstraZeneca dropped a bombshell: Iressa and chemotherapy didn't work significantly better together than chemotherapy alone.
Better to leave well alone rather than going through the wrenching process of reopening constitutional debates, his detractors said.
Taking either memantine or donepezil alone was better than nothing at all, but taking them together offered no additional benefit.
This appears to be clearly better than standard treatment alone, which works 40% to 50% of the time for the most common viral strain.
But, they knew that they were better off united than alone.
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Thus, a lot is riding on the IMPROVE-IT study as it is meant to show that the combination of a statin plus a cholesterol absorption inhibitor is better than a statin alone.
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The lesson, evidently, is that it's better to be wrong than alone.
If the Aventis vaccine is given first, followed by the Merck one, the combination doesn't work significantly better than the vaccines given alone.
But neither facts, history or legal precedent deterred Justice Antonin Scalia from deciding he alone would be better qualified to do Congress' job.
While either bid could mean a multi-million dollar payout for Dodsworth and his team, one has to wonder if TweetDeck would have been better off just going it alone.
They wanted to know if Tredaptive, in combination with a statin, would be at least as good, if not better, than a statin alone for the treatment of CV disease.
Working in tandem may mean checking their monkish credentials at the door, but for these two masters, designing as a duo may yet yield even better results than going it alone.
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