If men and women can acknowledge these differences, empathize with one another and come up with ways to cope with their different responses to workplace challenges, they will work together more productively and with less friction.

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Granted, these studies were conducted using rats, and we have to acknowledge the metabolic differences of our rodent counterparts.

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Even if we do try to make it more about uniting instead of separating, you have to acknowledge there are differences between men and women.

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And as a manufacturer for the mass market (niches are different: I could in fact see a small market for pink fire engines among a certain set of parents) the way to increase profits is to acknowledge and develop for these very differences.

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In essence, the pros acknowledge the rigidities in European labour markets, the differences in economic cycles and so forth, but believe that the creation of a single currency will cause these costs to diminish.

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Even the keenest of those involved with the plan for pro- and anti-whaling countries to spend a year working out their differences and trying to agree some kind of compromise package acknowledge there is a great deal of ground to be covered.

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