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To many familiar with the case, there is little question that BP would be better off settling.
In addition to providing publicity for the industry's crackdown on Internet piracy, the verdict is likely to reinforce the notion that computer users who do become targets of lawsuits — a small fraction of the population using file-swapping networks — are better off settling.
In a comment piece, John Crace writes that some countries thought Britain and Russia would be much better off settling their differences by going out for the evening and having a few drinks.
Each party would almost certainly have been better off settling the suit before it became tangled up in court.
Legal procedures are always costly, especially in the case of business failure; both the debtor and the creditors are frequently better off settling matters on an informal basis rather than through the courts.
Though she argues that women would be better off settling for good enough, a concept that the economist Herbert A. Simon called satisficing, it would have been interesting to hear more from her on the paradox of choice and why the expanded buffet of options has not necessarily made women happier.
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In court papers, Price Waterhouse argued that even if the tax shelter was invalid, Mr. Nelson was better off because the I.R.S. settled with him for $3 million less than he would otherwise have owed in taxes.
The UK, he argued, would be "roughly" £350m better off once it had "settled its accounts" with the EU and he said it would be "fine" if "a lot of that money" was spent on the health service.
If you think you're settling, you're better off alone.
Pastoralists are often better off than settled farmers during normal times.
If this is the case, maybe the GOP would be better off not touting this group's bygone youth, and instead settle for calling these candidates "Guns".
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