But it is rather better than the premium rating reached in 1994, at the height of investor enthusiasm.
And so you stuck with the status quo but rather than getting better over time, things only got worse.
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Studio support and interactive features will probably not have anything to do with who walks away from this thing but rather who is better supported on the computer side of it.
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It was hoped that Britain would become rather like Germany, but with better restaurants.
In maths and science boys and girls perform much the same at primary school, but at age 15 boys do rather better than girls in maths (though not science).
Mr Ritchie thinks the new rules are better, but he would rather get rid of the residency restrictions entirely and let probation officers make recommendations for each individual offender.
But in relative terms, Canada is doing rather better than most other rich countries.
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Nor can they swallow the argument that it is not necessarily the better technology that wins, but rather, the luckiest one.
Pedro Taques, a former prosecutor who is now on the investigative committee, says the outing of Mr Torres proves not that graft is growing but rather that anti-corruption efforts are getting better.
Of course, all parents would rather go for some better alternative, but there are a few barriers.
Like poverty or ethnic and religious conflict, climate change is not something likely to be solved, eliminated or ended, but rather a condition that society will struggle to do better or worse at in managing.
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"I think we always knew that we weren't going to emerge from Copenhagen with a completely legally binding signed and sealed treaty, but I think we'd hoped for something rather better than this, " he said.
It is actually better not to invest in deep knowledge but rather to emphasize experimentation.
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But it would be better if ways to use private rather than taxpayers' money could be found.
He is not offering a Tory Utopia, but better management and greater efficiency: a different emphasis rather than a revolution.
And by emphasising its cheapness rather than its basic but appealing qualities, it deterred slightly better-off consumers who could afford one but aspired to more sophisticated vehicles, such as those from Tata's biggest rival, Maruti, the leader in India's small-car market.
Many in Jerusalem expressed their disappointment that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu decided not to travel to Washington this week to participate in the AIPAC conference but rather delayed his visit to the US for two weeks to better prepare for his meeting with Obama.
Pakistan coach Geoff Lawson said it was "very disappointing" but added "it is better that the series has been postponed rather than cancelled".
The key is envisioning and then figuring out how to serve your customer in ways that are substantively different from the competition, rather than simply trying to do what they do, but better (faster, cheaper, slightly better quality, etc.).
But all these things are, at the margin, getting better, rather than worse.
Such a crusade would be better fought through state legislatures rather than the courts, but at least it ensures that the subject of gun-control remains visible.
University education is better, but federal money has inflated costs, enriching institutions rather than students, and contributing to the expensive delusion that everyone should go to college.
Conventional wisdom at the time dictated that defense companies should stick with military markets rather than diversifying, but Chabraja was a contrarian who thought he knew better.
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This is not because the rich are gullible shoppers but rather, say the authors, because they tend to buy goods of better quality (such as organic milk), the prices of which are higher and tend to rise more quickly.
In most cases, it is better to have higher rather than lower engagement scores, but in order to take action directed towards improving organizational performance, the items need to be looked at separately and used to make data-based changes that will drive employee retention, performance, and commitment.
Because of their very different risk exposures, compared to hustlers, they end up on a different path that effectively makes them mercenaries rather than entrepreneurs, a path that generally promises smaller jackpots, but better expected outcomes and survivability.
But Amazon.com is among the stocks that are likely to do better rather than worse heading into the autumn months (as a retailer and as a technology company) and here, lateral motion seems more probable than a sharp-sell-off.
Not a vague, wishy-washy notion that I should "get in shape, " maybe "eat better" or possibly "go on a diet, " but rather a specific long-term plan to enhance my wellness in a way that would not only stick, but fit within the parameters of my busy life as a full-time lawyer, husband and father of four small children.
But if afternoon office fatigue is better fought off with a few toning exercises (rather than a candy bar), that's equally important.
Saving the Little Sisters rather than killing them not only gives you a better in ending, but over the course of the game is more maximal from a gameplay perspective.
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