And it sure beats visiting an OTB.

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If your student can scoop up bucks by playing baseball, volleyball or swimming as an undergraduate, it beats flipping burgers.

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If it wants those additional riches from an opt-out, nothing beats Syracuse-Duke on April 5.

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Tapping your way through a grid in a spreadsheet is never an enjoyable experience, but having it spread across two screens certainly beats squinting at one.

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Even so, his conclusions about our near-certain doom have him grinning like a know-it-all at math camp, an arm waving eagerly in the air as he beats the other kids to the grim answer.

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It beats flying, which is unbearably cramped by comparison, just as pricey, and dumps you an hour from downtown at either end.

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In cases where an individual beats the dueling investors, the price is often much less of a steal than it would have been.

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