51.   The mystery novel depends on its contrivances of character and setting, and more often than not is the better for it.

52.   The only team playing better of late is that Krzyzewski bunch.

53.   The quicker you win four, the better off you are.

54.   They had both better be good, because the world of American fast food is a ruthless battlefield.

55.   This better be worth it.

56.   Was Bonds better this season than the best of the Babe?

57.   Which offers the better skiing is a subjective matter.

58.   Whether cabernet and merlot grown in the chalky soils of the Charente will fare any better is debatable.

59.   With a title like this, a band better be ready to deliver the goods.

60.   You have to know the defenses, you have to know what the offensive line is doing and the more you know, the better off you are.