Better living, more happiness, better social status for its customers.
That would be better than the status quo, but not that much better.
They deserve better than the status quo.
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Network broadcasters would be better served spending less time and assets trying to preserve the status quo and better served by trying to create new business models.
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But I also think that shrinking access to the deduction is better than maintaining the status quo.
It will help us improve our client service including better communication on the status of matters as well as more timely information available to our clients.
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Schilit goes into detail about how companies twist, bend and even break accounting rules to cover up bad news and make their fiscal status seem better than it really is.
At least not far beyond the honeymoon phase, after which the happy couple invariably decides to leverage its new status into better living quarters, nicer cars and more "mature" spending priorities like insurance and church donations.
It is plummeting to the status of the Better Business Bureau, i.e.
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This is a role traditionally reserved for university students, but in many ways, online groups are better suited to challenge the status quo.
If our culture waited until it was clear which new things were actually better, and gave more status to the creators and early adopters of those things, culture would promote innovation.
Or the team at Citizen and Immigration Services, the old INS, which in just 90 days, replaced its opaque application process with a transparent tracking system that allows people to check their status online, better and cheaper.
Apple had no trouble selling the iPhone 4 with an extra-sharp 3.5-inch display, and it was even defensive about its choice: Jobs is well-known for insisting at the time that phones needed to be usable with one hand, and app compatibility was better served by maintaining the status quos for resolution and size.
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There is an element of self-pity there, of course: many blue-collar workers have a better claim to disposable-android status.
She said being upfront earlier about her status has made things better.
While many across the pond are happy with the status quo--or better yet are happy to join the massive corporate and government bureaucracies that dot the European landscape ahead of corporate and government pensions after early retirement--restless Americans in many instances want more than the status quo.
In every area of our lives we should question the status quo, and make things better.
And so you stuck with the status quo but rather than getting better over time, things only got worse.
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The home has had several price cuts, but with its new celebrity real estate status, the homeowners may have better luck selling.
Again, the high-status participants turned out to be better managers.
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My parents justifiably believed that professional status would allow me to have a better life than they had.
Is there a culture around security or does a company simply assume people know better than to post insider information as their next status update?
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Privately insured patients may have better access to surgery: a direct result of insurance status.
Too often organizations remained mired in the status quo not because people do not know any better, but because they are too afraid to rock the boat.
These five million individuals must either lie to better position themselves to get hired, or accept that their unemployed status might be a permanent barrier to reentering the workforce.
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Sometimes, the status quo, the path of least resistance while maybe not better, is faster.
Even in South Africa, one of the better postings over the years for a Cuban doctor, the negation of professional status can become too much.
Critics of race-based admissions question whether educational institutions would serve the goals of affirmative action better by relying exclusively on non-race based criteria, such as socioeconomic status and family educational history.
And the idea that foundation status should be a reward for quality and thus a spur to better performance has been binned, because that might lead to some hospitals getting better than others.
Teenagers and young adults of low socioeconomic status who have a history of in-depth arts involvement earn better grades and have higher rates of college enrollment and attainment than those that are not exposed to the arts.
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