We are much better off doing a few things well than throwing our hats at a lot of things.
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Might the generals and judges and politicians who decided that Manuel Zelaya had to go, now be wondering whether they would have been better off doing nothing?
As long as an article included accurate citations, he said he had "no problem" with it being used as a reference for younger students, although academics would "probably be better off doing their own research".
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When people can patiently assess what, if anything, they might gain from joining a union, they usually conclude they're better off not doing it.
People wealthy enough to buy a diversified portfolio of shares and bonds directly would usually be far better-off doing so than investing in a fund, because of the fees managers charge, and the tax inefficiencies of this way of investing.
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If the Scottish Parliament took on that burden, it would be helping better-off families while doing nothing for poor families.
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 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.
The worse thing to do is to close your mind off from doing even better.
Glasgow, for instance, has high unemployment, but it's doing better at keeping young people off the dole than Clackmannanshire, North and East Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire.
If someone convinced me that we'd be better off letting our opponents have possession, I'd have no problem doing that.
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In his view, merchants are not doing a particularly good job of measuring whether they are better off working with Groupon.
"The majority of kids say they are better off for having been screened, and that's what makes us keep doing it, " says Ms. Sheridan.
McCain says his proposals will create jobs, but his way of doing that involves cutting corporate income taxes, which would mainly benefit better-off people who own stocks.
Great Lakes sailors love nothing better than beating the pants off skippers from the seas and coasts--and they've been doing it for some time.
But a pay TV system could be better for network owners such as Fox if services like Aereo were to thrive, because doing so would cut off technology that siphons away customers from pay TV operators, he wrote.
Drama studies might be rather better studied by going and working as an actor: Mom and Pop subsidising a child for four years doing off off Broadway would certainly be cheaper than college these days and would almost certainly result in a better dramatic education.
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