"That phone better not be on, " the mayor says, according to the newspaper.
But when you combine the unknown variables of health and chemistry with the known historical evidence, co-owner Magic Johnson better not be making plans for ticker-tape parades through downtown L.A. just yet.
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So maybe it's better not to be sensitive as a photographer and just go on.
Telling people why your laptop is better might not be enough if customers are wondering whether they should buy a computer at all.
If economic growth does in fact come, say in 2013, as Obama presumably believes it will, there had better not still be top income tax rates of 35% and capital gains and dividend rates of 15%.
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This will intensify because while all the new drugs will be better than warfarin, it may not be clear how much better they are than one another.
Goes to show, if its not done right it might be better not to do it at all.
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Front-line policing in Avon and Somerset could not be done better by a private company and would be a step too far, its chief constable has said.
The timing for the celebration and reappraisal of Mies's work could not be better.
You might or might not be better off using the conventional retirement account.
Addressing this concern that bigger may not be better, Blade Dynamics brings a different logic to the game.
Since the stakes are so high, would it not be better if he got involved sooner rather than later?
The real debate within the GOP right now is whether battles might not be better won with canny flanking maneuvers.
The sooner he does so, the better it will be not only for the nation but for his re-election efforts.
The media world would, for better or worse, not be the same without Arianna Huffington and her Huff Post.
She says it may be better not to ask the question: is this student a girl or a boy.
Given the shortage of finance, the minister asked, would it not be better spent on developing scientists and engineers for the future?
He asked himself, Would it not be better to go straight home?
The DUP's Paul Frew asked if it would not be better to lay two new cables rather than to proceed with further repairs.
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Mr Markopolos's book is nowhere nearly as well written as Mr Lewis's, but the frustration of the outsider could not be better expressed.
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Some analysts wonder whether much of Africa would not be better off if its oil and diamonds were simply left in the ground.
Business people understandably fret about the value for money, and whether that money might not be better spent on more heavily used commuter lines.
The most critical issue is that women would not be better leaders if they have to apply the prevailing patriarchal, male political structures to govern.
If there were another such tragedy, Mr Feinberg allows, it might be better not to appoint someone to fill the exact role he had this time.
The timing of this move perhaps could not be better, as the perennially highly-rated and Emmy-winning Big Bang Theory is off to a gangbusters start for 2013.
Even if it were true that the product would not perform well, would it not be better to give them what they wanted and finesse the performance issue?
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The report by Heriot-Watt's School of Life Sciences said what impact the cable could have on seabed habitats could not be better understood until a precise route for it was known.
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