No one denies Pioneer's superior ability to create plasma TVs with deep, rich blacks.
A superior ability to concentrate, solve problems and focus are, of course, valuable in everyday life.
Throughout his life, Harold had a superior ability to feel what others were feeling.
But the most striking difference in the match was Sijsling's superior ability to return serve.
The researchers concluded that the most likely explanation was that short-sellers, compared with other kinds of traders, have a superior ability "to analyze publicly available information".
Prof Steve Rayner, now head of Oxford University's institute for science, innovation and society, studied Balakrishnan's group in the late 1970s, and noted the leader's "superior ability to manipulate" other members, despite the supposed non-hierarchical structure.
Rayner, a professor at Oxford University, who studied Balakrishnan's group for a 1979 PhD thesis on leftwing groups, described the leader's "superior ability to manipulate" other members, who were mainly from overseas and appeared vulnerable.
"Ravelstein," the novel, thus becomes a litmus test of The Novel's vitality, a demonstration of the elasticity of the form and of its superior ability to get at the heart and soul of a character.
She called it "twisted logic" to dwell on tamoxifen's superior ability to prevent the noninvasive cancers because, she said, "We're not preventing noninvasive cancers because nobody's taking tamoxifen anyway".
"[We] expect it to continue to take like-for-like share in fragmented apparel markets worldwide, on account of its strong multichannel offer and its superior ability to respond to trends in season".
America's comparative advantage has always lain in its superior ability to make creative use of disruption; if the Chinese are mastering that art, while the Americans are losing their taste for it, then the country really is in trouble.
