However, the higher speeds provided by the more expensive infrastructure systems like a cable to every dwelling or office: they do not make a difference.

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Finally, to make a difference portfolio-wise trading IPOs, you typically have to be a darn good short-term market timer (tough to do) and hold a large enough allocation to make a difference (not typically a wise thing to do).

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These developments do not often make the headlines, but they do make a difference.

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The efforts of industry have the potential to make a great difference, Clinton argued, but will have a limited effect if young people do not realize that these resources are available to them.

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This implies that consumer choice will make a difference, but of course we do not get to choose which credit reference agencies hold our personal data.

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Yet many women shy away from the careers that will give them a chance to make the biggest difference, in part just because they do not understand them.

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The test, surely though, will be whether people who did not vote on Thursday do in future or wish they had because their local commissioner is seen to make a difference.

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The researchers do not know if this is because the patch needs to be in place during early development in order to make a difference or if the patch struggles to make it into the inner ear beyond a certain point.

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These matrix committees were not White Space teams able to do what needed to be done, reporting high enough in the organization to make a difference.

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