And yet, when you cut through that rhetoric, you'd have to conclude that they do agree on key fundamentals about the economy - and even on the government's limited capacity to turn things around.
The five permanent Security Council members have been trying to agree on what to do about Iran's nuclear program.
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The meeting also covered topics which the EU-US largely agree on - including worries about Iran's nuclear programme, efforts to increase clean energy technology and avoid climate change, as well as supporting democracy after the Arab Spring.
One reason for all the state changes is that Congress took so long to agree on what to do about the federal estate tax, allowing it to lapse in 2010, and many states take their lead from the federal system.
Amal Saad Ghorayeb, who's written a book about Hezbollah, says the Shiite militia is unlikely to agree on what international diplomats are talking about.
They had an opportunity to both talk about and agree on the need to move forward with that peace process.
That said, the one thing everyone seems to agree on is that unless you talk about football in Ghana for the next few weeks, no one is going to listen to anything you have to say.
The crucial fact here is that the Rhodes Trust heard about the allegation and acted upon it (a fact both Witt and the Times agree on), rewriting the scholar-athlete story that so many were talking about.
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In the Middle East, those protesting agree completely on removing existing regimes but thoroughly disagree about the future.
But they do underline that both men agree this election is about a clear choice on America's economic direction.
My full thoughts on my initial few days can be found here, but I also agree with my colleague Erik Kain on many points about its shortcomings.
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Not all of his contemporaries agree with Dr Ambrose about Toba's effect on humanity.
In 2011, Congress passed a law saying that if both parties couldn't agree on a plan to reach our deficit goal, about a trillion dollars worth of budget cuts would automatically go into effect this year.
This could involve UK Border Agency case workers questioning a couple to see whether they are able to provide accurate personal details about each other and whether they agree on the facts of their relationship, for example how they met.
Walter Loeb has been going on about how Joe Fresh is not on target for JCP customers, and I have to agree.
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They usually agree on things at work, and they know a lot about real estate.
In that spirit, just earlier this week we had a meeting with both Democratic and Republican leaders here in Washington to start talking about how we can find ways to agree on promoting growth and promoting jobs across all 50 states.
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To be perfectly honest, I was counting on Coach April to agree with me when I told her about the race.
In an interview with The Economist in May, Ms Otunbayeva grumbled about the difficulty of getting her colleagues to agree on anything.
So we're only asking that we have that conversation about the things that we should be able to agree on.
Mr Mbeki was previously coy about that, perhaps hoping to get Africa to agree on just one bid (his own).
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Of course, no-one can be seen to complain about better quality spending, but they may not agree on what that actually means in practice.
On the other hand, the two researchers do more or less agree about distances.
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First, while several newspapers (including ourselves) have called on Mr Rumsfeld to resign, only about a third of Americans agree.
It allowed participants to exchange different views about how we can build on the cuts that we can agree on and how we can get from small to medium to large.
Nor am I sure why anyone should be happy about this fact, given that both liberal and conservative policy experts agree on the need for entitlement reductions.
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Panetta is stepping up rhetoric about the impact of sequestration on the Pentagon if Congress does not agree to a plan in coming weeks to avert it.
Because in the end, this is something that I think we can all agree on, no matter where we come from, no matter what we might think about any other issue.
And you know, I think that they may not agree with me on every issue, but they - but they do know that I care about many of the things that they care about.
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