This has contributed - along with a weaker pound - to a narrowing of the price difference north and south, thereby reducing the profit incentive for smuggling.
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That's the margin of difference in North Carolina, one of the key states.
His handwritten field notes show street by street calculations in "chain lengths, " a painstaking process that used metal chains and heavy brass compasses, theodolytes and geodesic transits to reconcile the difference between true north and magnetic north readings.
Ms Griffiths also dismissed a suggestion from Conservative AM Darren Millar that the difference in waiting times between south and north Wales could be down to a difference in funding.
There is another sort of difference between Iraq and North Korea.
Furthermore, because of a reasonable time zone difference between England and North America, many of the matches could be aired during daytime and prime time in the Western Hemisphere which would boost TV ratings, sponsorship dollars, and advertising rates.
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According to Nobelist Douglas North, the main difference between poor and rich nations is not growth rates.
The Bluebirds missed out on the play-offs as defeat at Sheffield Wednesday meant they lost a top-six place to Preston North End on goal difference.
And in North Carolina the margin of difference was even closer.
But can one person from North America really make a difference?
He referred to a secret memo written in the 1970s by Scottish Office adviser Gavin McCrone on North Sea oil and the difference it could have made to Scottish economy.
In its latest results, there was a clear difference between the company's performance in North America and in the rest of the world.
Kerry did appreciably better than Edwards among South Carolina's nonwhite male respondents, but the North Carolina senator made up the difference among nonwhite women.
He said the two academies in his Doncaster North constituency had "made a big difference" to education locally.
For South Korean President Park Geun-hye who had pledged to try to build trust between Seoul and Pyongyang to demonstrate a difference from the hard-line policies toward the North of the previous government its closure marks a particular setback.
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That price difference is precisely why Petronas is maneuvering to buy reserves in North America.
The time difference will force the games to be played at off hours in North America, and the NHL would like to receive concessions from the IOC that haven't been made before.
Obama aides believe if that percentage increased just modestly in 2008, it could make the difference in at least a half-dozen states: Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Eddie Patterson's side move level on points with north Belfast rivals Crusaders but occupy third place thanks to a superior goal difference.
The blue- and green-striped Muppet fur covering copies of Schizophrenology suggests that the North Carolina band The Majestic Twelve might not have picked up on the difference.
Mr Hagel promised that North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) allies in Europe would see no difference to their level of protection as a result, with the first three phases of the EPAA providing coverage of all of their territory as planned by 2018.
The North Vietnamese soldiers and the communist Pathet Lao soldiers could not and would not tell the difference: Hmong was only skin deep.
Mike Espley from the North Wales Private Landlord Association said that any new housing association would not make much of a difference and was not well thought out.
But again, the test of the difference between us, the president's had four years to try to do something about it, and North Korea's got more weapons.
When I moved to North Carolina in 1985 after living in New York City, the first thing I noticed was a difference in mentality: People were just as smart and skillful but their thinking was narrow and their aspirations smaller.
But while it is true that North Korea's proliferation activities threaten global security, it is also true that there is a qualitative difference between the regimes in Pyongyang and Teheran.
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