To some people, the argument over which company has the better stuff is debated as vehemently as others use in politics.
It sells some and swaps the rest (mostly sour and heavy grades) with oil companies in exchange for better stuff shipped in from overseas.
And, WTO membership will only make all this good stuff better with increased accountability and transparency.
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But it also makes the people making the stuff better off: see that 6 times rise in Chinese wages in only 13 years.
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My legacy will come down to my ability to make sure the good stuff about me is better optimized for search engines than the bad stuff.
Memories of experiences are always better than memories of stuff.
Until recently most people in the waste industry had assumed that it was impossible to reduce the amount being produced and were concentrating on putting the stuff to better use.
Second, from an empirical perspective, the data would seem to corroborate what we already know from casual observation: The bad guys are much better at getting bad stuff onto our computers than the good guys are at keeping it off.
As a skeleton key for the Internet, Google in five years has grown from an academic exercise in search of better ways of finding stuff on the Web into a prodigious advertising business beloved by users, sought by a hundred thousand advertisers, coveted by Wall Street and envied--or reviled--by a swarm of rivals.
So, it has gotten a little better, but selling this stuff is trench warfare.
The more people it has coming into Amazon to buy stuff, the better.
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The better he can explain this stuff, the more parts Linear sells.
Prized for their robustness, and the fact that the stuff usually gets better with age, Bordeaux vintages have seen stunning increases in prices over the past decade.
"There's a lot of veteran guys in here, and they're better about communicating and addressing stuff to nip it in the bud right away, " Shumpert said.
This makes us better off: we get stuff for cheap.
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Early ventures into good- or better-for-you stuff have flopped.
Because of technology, there are less people needed to manufacture and service the durable equipment that we use because this stuff is working better and for a much longer period of time.
Secondly, the foreign-owned companies were simply also better at coming up with new stuff on their own, in comparison to their domestic counterparts.
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They're inherently more complex and three-dimensional than the man-made stuff and may be better at reaching the rich harvest of disease targets uncovered by genetic mapping.
Sure, Google has some error reporting, map updating stuff, but Waze is better.
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Those horrible local car dealer and furniture sale spots got no better or more polished, yet sold stuff all year long.
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These books are better than a lot of the newer stuff, but because they werent getting promoted, a lot of people had never read them.
All this stuff is going to get better over time.
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One part virtual notebook, one part personal assistant, Springpad helps you remember stuff today so you can make better decisions tomorrow.
And, though it causes me frequent pain, I still think the rowdy, aggressive style of British political reporting is better than the pompous, self-censoring stuff you see in some other European countries.
For users who do like to squirrel stuff away, Google can offer a better price.
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But as I said, there is nothing better than actually going to Steamboat and trying this stuff for yourself.
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There is a lot of stuff that will incrementally make the phone better.
There is a good reason for this, a reason better than just that my major customer makes the stuff that makes all those light bulbs work.
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