81.   Condit said higher research and development costs kept earnings from being even better in the third quarter.

82.   Conditions are only marginally better in the Barbes district, inside the city limits, where immigrants head as soon as they can afford less crowded accommodations.

83.   Conditions were better in Michigan.

84.   Crockett is better in man-to-man coverage than Gordon and will probably be locked up on Mathis for much of the game.

85.   Cone changed speeds better in the third, fourth and fifth innings, pitching mostly outside, some of his sliders a little sharper.

86.   Corn, to which the Indians introduced the colonists, grew better in New England than wheat or barley.

87.   Death to grass, too, even though it grows better in the garden than in the lawn.

88.   Despite the bad news, the job market is still better in New York state than in much of the rest of the country.

89.   Despite their inexperience, the Sun Devils will be deeper and better in the secondary.

90.   Dole contends that things were much better in the early years of his life, when drugs and crime were less menacing than they are today.