He and others said studies showed that restaurants and bars in California actually fared better after the state banned smoking in those establishments.

At that early point, it was said that the data suggest that some patients on the drug actually fared worse than some taking placebos.

He was also quick to point out that the survey found he actually fared slightly better than Mr. Corzine in a prospective race against the two leading Republican contenders.

And each of them, Goldman says, is flawed as a true measure of how a conservative, buy-and-hold commodity investor would actually fare in the marketplace.

The odds were that they were gone from the Game, raided and dispatched while he was prisoner-but though he might actually fare better without them, he could not simply write them off.

Marist actually fared better in the field-goal shooting department, making 34 of 62 shots for 55 percent, but the Red Foxes committed 26 turnovers.

Compared with today's government restrictions, artists in Shanghai then actually fared better.

Chrysler actually fared better than many others that reported sales today.

Reclusive and humble to a fault, he lamented his inexperience and lack of qualifications, but actually fared well and showed himself to be decisive and firm when necessary.

He's actually faring better than you.