These rich guys are trying to convince the rest of us that everyone is better off because they're better off.
We will all be better off if we are all better off.
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The Tories were, he said, not the party of the better off but the party of the "want to be better off".
It would also increase their relative position in society: there are also those motivated not by being better off but by being better off than others.
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In fact, Brodzinsky's own research finds that adopting parents are a special breed: highly motivated, better educated and better off financially than parents who do not adopt.
Just as free trade in terms of physical and intellectual goods makes us better off, so are we better off when human capital can freely cross our borders such that we can all become even more specialized in our work.
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Today the prime minister's answer was that he may be an old Etonian from Berkshire with a stockbroker for a father, but he is not on the side of the better off, he is on the side of those who want to be better off.
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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And we think that the more we are making sure that banks aren't competing by how obscure their fine print is, but rather competing on the basis of the quality of their service and the terms of their loans, the better off consumers are going to be, and ultimately the better off banks are going to be as well.
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The transaction, in other words, leaves you no better or worse off in pretax terms but considerably better off aftertax.
If you get different advice, but have a better relationship with that doctor, you will be better off too.
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The more focused the company can be and the better it can articulate its value proposition, the better off it will be.
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The Macro switch helped for taking better up close pics, but still you're better off with a cheap point and shoot.
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.
Fundamentally, China is in a much better position than most of the big emerging markets, and is better off than the U.S. and Europe.
Even though I'm bored silly, I'm still better off than your typical laid-off garment worker.
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And a better understanding of what drove the numbers down can steer us toward doing things that make people better off rather than congratulating ourselves on how moral we are.
Most still come from better-off families, partly because these can better afford the fees, partly because pupils from private schools outclass those from public ones in the national entrance exam that almost all universities use.
Instead of needing more doctors, maybe we would be better off with fewer primary care doctors who were much better organized.
Still, the region's millions of struggling poor are likely to be better off even if, as usual, the rich skim off the cream.
Are you better off to simply hold this fund, at least until you can find a better alternative?
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The odds are in your favor that you will be better off, however there is more than a small chance that you will be much worse off.
It also prohibits employers from hiring those workers, even if both parties would be better off.
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Still, the U.S. probably would be better off with someone other than Gadhafi in power.
You might be better off with a copy of Peterson's Complete Guide to Colleges.
And in metros where credit tends to be readily available, housing markets are much better off.
The government said tax and benefit changes meant working households were now better off.
"You're better off with that than an LLC that's compromised by a personal guarantee, " says Michel.
They would be better off had they hedged against higher oil prices years ago.
The other centre-right outfit, Civic Platform, gains support mainly among well-educated, better-off, urban voters.
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