1.   But for universities looking to better themselves by emigrating, Conference USA is a beacon of hope.

2.   Even veteran Tom Lehman going Brandi Chastain one better by peeling off his shirt and heaving it out as a souvenir.

3.   Fifth-ranked Toronto-Dominion Bank and National Bank both bettered by a penny the mean estimate of analysts surveyed by IBES International Inc.

4.   Goldwater did better by losing, and being remembered as the honorable man and true conservative he was.

5.   If SHL can better that by joining forces with MCI, she said, it could start stealing business from EDS.

6.   It strikes me as a country fete worth preserving, better by far than television and maybe even the Sunday papers.

7.   Or his inability to make his teammates better by being impatient when he gets the ball on the blocks.

8.   Over the summer Indiana moved to better itself by trading for Jackson, who became the starting point guard.

9.   We do better by people, usually, and sometimes by books as well.

10.   On another issue, the leaders did better by agreeing to pursue ways of how Europe can craft a credible defense arm without always relying on the United States.