Three-quarters of the patients who took medicine still had angioplasty, compared with less than half of those who received stents, but there was no significant difference in how many deaths and heart attacks were prevented.

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Linda Beale for example is absolutely adamant that the taxation of investment returns makes no difference at all to how much people will invest.

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And there have been others on the Republican side or the conservative side who said no matter how much money you spend, nothing makes a difference, so let's just blow up the public school systems.

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No matter how tall or small you are YOU can make a BIG difference!

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Ms. Hefty is no longer with us, but I often think about her and how much of a difference she made in my life.

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Certainly no one would intend to do that, but understanding how putting your words together can make a difference is important.

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He did not want to feel that this neighbor was much younger than he, but an age difference was declared in how calmly and quickly she shed her clothes, as if it were no big deal.

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For perspective on how big a gap that is on the PGA Tour, 1.5 strokes was also the difference between No. 2 Els and the 88th-ranked player in scoring average.

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There was no difference in the chance of hip fractures for those people looked at in the study regardless of how long they had been exposed to higher fluoride levels.

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His often-contradictory nine points aside, the key to the success or failure of 3D will obviously be whether or not audiences think the difference is consistently worth the money, no matter what anyone says about it -- or how awesome it makes sports look.

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