31.   Knowledgeable baseball people who will tell you the Dodgers would now be better off---financially and artistically---had they only had the foresight to hire Gilbert.

32.   Not only rich Americans, but most ordinary workers, say they are better off than when Clinton removed George Bush Senior from the White House.

33.   On the positive side, it would almost certainly stimulate more saving, investment and economic growth, making most Americans better off.

34.   One local broadcaster joked before the game that the Dolphins would be better off going into halftime without a lead.

35.   Other than the time and place of your own death, what things are we better off not knowing?

36.   So tired that they probably would have been better off if they had taken a nap rather than played basketball.

37.   So, were the Sox better off with the Yanks losing and Angels winning?

38.   Similarly, the economy even may better off because workers who are not productive at one company are freed up to work somewhere else.

39.   Still, Marko is, by all accounts, better off in Russia than he is back here in his homeland and his hometown, Pozarevac.

40.   Still, Cordis shareholders will never know if they would have been better off in the long run if their company had remained independent.