If we add all of them together, we can see why things seem better than before.
But America's soccer women do seem better than its men, who have never got further than the first round of their World Cup.
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.
As elsewhere in the region, the Islamists seem better organised than their secular rivals.
From where I sit, the odds of that happening seem no better than my chances of winning the next Powerball jack-pot.
Although at first glance 999 years of profits would seem far better than 65 years, those last nine centuries are really nothing to get excited about.
Why do online communities like these seem to work better than their offline counterparts?
Those all seem like better alternatives than fooling your eyes into seeing another dimension.
Wright commented that the world does not seem much better off than a year ago.
Best Buy is betting that real, live humans that can provide instant, in-person advice can help make it seem a better destination than visiting Amazon.com.
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Companies where employees are given more control over their working conditions seem to generate better returns than those that give their people less responsibility.
And Starbucks really did seem to get better coffee than competitors.
Although their generation is more focused on Facebook than email, the demographic of those expressing an interest in their cause seem to have responded better to email than social media.
While the wild-eyed scheme might seem better suited for conspiracy theories than reality, it has attracted a growing number of impressive and powerful backers.
They also seem to be a much better value than most bonds and CDs at this time.
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They are focused on being slick and polished and seem to think more information is better than less.
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Yes fortunately, and certainly no thanks to us, they now do seem to be in somewhat better shape than we have been led to believe after all.
All told, the quality didn't seem to be any better or worse than any other Skype call, which is to say it's totally workable for some long-distance conferencing.
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If so, the performance of the American economy would be much better than the figures seem to suggest, and perhaps even as good as most people appear to think.
The result does seem to be a better allocation of resources than people would make by themselves.
The men seem to be in better health and cleaner than in the previous video, shown last week.
But compared to working conditions elsewhere in China they do seem to be good, if not better than almost all of the alternatives.
The drop may seem counter-intuitive due to the better-than-expected GDP figures, but Hogan said the relationship between bonds and stocks is skewed from historic norms because bonds already so low due to disruptions in the credit markets emanating from the U.S. subprime crisis.
Yet many voters seem to understand Mr Koizumi's postal test better than the pundits do.
While losing a job can at first seem devastating, it can sometimes turn out even better than expected.
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Many mergers seem to happen when bosses, who are better informed than outside investors, decide that the stockmarket is wrongly valuing one, or both, of the firms involved.
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So these new data from Burrill are entirely all consistent with pharma corporate VC playing an important role in the ecosystem, and that they seem to get involved in good companies that possess better than average probabilities of success.
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The latest deals may seem more targeted and strategic, and therefore better justified, than many in the 1990s.
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