To Amarin, NCE status can mean the difference between three and roughly five years of patent protection for Vascepa.

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"There's no difference in the moral status" of a pre-ban embryo and a postban one.

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Only you can make a difference in your unequal salary, promotional opportunities, income, wage and career status.

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Still others have tried to split the difference by arguing for a permanent noncitizen legal-resident status for illegal immigrants and their offspring, on the German and French model.

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That their children will be denied legal status at some point in the future will make no palpable difference to folks confronting a life-and-death situation now.

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