If an iPad is merely a scaled-up iPhone, then scale is all the difference in the world.
With more than 12, 000 stores across the country, Starbucks has enough scale to make a significant difference.
The suggested measures would make no difference if an attack involved a large scale device, he said.
But was it implemented on a large enough scale to make a real difference to the lives of millions of families needing basic knowledge?
The former will take time to scale to make a huge difference day-to-day, and the latter is clearly the most speculative (a subject for another day).
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And he said the new performance-related pay system for teachers at the top of the basic salary scale would make "a substantial difference" in the longer term.
Mr. ALBERT RIDILLA (Co-Creator, Brumagic MPST Densitometer): To the layman it would be related to contrast, the difference between black and white, and every scale in between.
By activating a continuous series of efforts against hunger in the US, we believe we can scale our hunger initiatives and make a meaningful difference in the communities we serve.
The difference is that Schwab plans to do it on a grander scale, offering more selection, hand-holding and distribution through its investment advisers.
Nathalie Gamory, of Monaco Real Estate, an affiliate of the Savills agency, says that on Monaco's scale, a short distance can make a vast difference in price.
Because radiation from the Crab nebula is so energetic, the electrons that created it must have been travelling very close to the speed of light so close that the difference between the two speeds would bump up against Planck-scale graininess, and show up in the spectrum of the radiation.
In terms of architecture and scale, arguably such a transition will be akin to the difference between setting up an isolated high desert mobile home park and building a space city with the dynamism of the Las Vegas strip.
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Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.
The only difference now is that technology has allowed individuals to connect with each other on a massive scale, thus allowing individuals to have a greater variety of choices.
When Obama and his supporters refer to income inequality, they are taking a complex set of economic and social issues and boiling them down to a single data point: how large is the difference between the annual incomes of top earners compared with those on the bottom of the income scale.
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