And in the US, imports were flat quarter over quarter, but still looking better than they did a year ago.
As for plastic surgery, no doubt it can make us feel better for looking better, but it's hardly essential--much like a meal at a fancy restaurant or a trip to the south of France.
American small businesses have been painfully slow to snap back from the Great Recession, but the trend is looking better.
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But Colgate is looking like a better short-term capital appreciation play based on the charts appearing to be in much better shape because the stock has lagged the broader advance.
Other analysts also see production looking better for 2012 but agree that nothing is for sure.
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Romney may be more charismatic and quite a bit better looking than Kerry, but he suffers from a lot of the same problems.
So, Samsung and Apple are still top dogs in the market smartphones, but Nokia is now looking a little better placed to challenge for the number three position.
But the industry has been looking for ways to better integrate payment systems, and other startups like Boku and Social Gold, have also been working on this.
Study leader Dr Mark Hamer said they were trying to explain why obese heart patients seemed to do better by looking at lifestyle factors, but they found that it was not the case that obese patients were healthier.
We just downloaded the beta and it's certainly a lot better looking than the previous version, but we also noticed that it integrated our Mac address book right into the contacts pane and when we initiated a call it automatically muted the song we were listening to in iTunes.
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Its phones are better looking than many in this sector - but you do pay extra for that.
But the news is perhaps even better for BofA which is slowly looking to come out of its dark litigious days.
Last but not least, looking at your playscript will allow you to better communicate with your workforce.
The stock market is looking better than it did in early March, but investors don't seem to be giving President Barack Obama's policies much credit for the increases.
They all came pursuing the American dream, looking for a better future not only for themselves but for their families, but found themselves culturally and socially unequipped to accomplish their goals.
Bond prices fell after the report, but that could be a positive sign, indicating investors were looking for better returns from a growing economy than they could get in the fixed-income market.
Further, a recent poll (pdf) of market participants fund that more than 60 percent thought things would get better under divided government, but a majority also allowed that they were looking for Republicans and Democrats to cooperate productively rather than tussle viciously.
However, it appears that the Executive branch is looking at ways to not only reduce costs but also return a better product to society.
But which to them was better than 14 hours a day in a paddy field looking at the wrong end of a water buffalo.
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Perhaps the Nets grow through the NBA Draft, but any coach that decides to go to Brooklyn better like the lineup he is looking at today.
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Call of Duty may have shined in the graphics department early on in the last console generation, but as time went on, Battlefield came along to outstrip them as the better looking title.
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The Premier Hotel in Times Square wasn't getting too many requests from female solo travelers looking for protection from male guests, but they were getting requests for better makeup lighting and more diet-friendly cuisine.
But after looking at a number of potential merger partners, they decided that they were better off gambling on Triton's geologists instead.
Luukko thinks the online convenience factor is a good thing for fans looking to unload extra tickets, but that teams in the end might be better off staying out of it directly.
"I don't get many awards and I don't get nominated for a lot of awards but when I do I tend to lose out to more younger, talented, better-looking guys like James McAvoy, " he said.
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It may be an ideal choice for wedding and portrait photographers who need the guaranteed rich color even in uncontrollable lighting situations, but for those who don't need the expanded range, you may be better off looking at the Nikon D70s, the Canon EOS 20D, or the Nikon D2X.
Researchers had been looking for genetic cues they could use to select better cows for 20 years, but previous attempts had failed because they looked for particular genes.
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