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So you chose to split the difference between rapid spending increases and moderate spending increases.
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What Mr Prescott has done essentially is to split the difference on housing numbers.
ECONOMIST: The south-east
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He could decide, of course, to split the difference: add some troops while pumping up special operations forces.
CNN: Borger: Obama's is vote that matters on Afghanistan
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Presented with the two opposing strategies, Obama decided to split the difference.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The western way of war
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There they try to split the difference between the two irreconcilable camps.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The western way of war
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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.
WSJ: The Weekend Interview with Marco Rubio: Riding to the Immigration Rescue
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It's clearly a sentence written by a committee: you can tell that one faction wanted to go with "America can do better" while another favored "Together, we can do better" to get the unity theme in there, so they decided to split the difference.
NPR: 'Talking Right': Why the Left Is Losing, Linguistically
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The second step would be for the PBC to perform dollar-for-yuan foreign exchange reserve swaps with African central banks, with China offering to split the seigniorage (the difference between the face value of currency and the cost to produce it) with the African nations as a form of foreign aid.
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They are sick of Washington's harsh and cynical hyper-partisanship, but they do not have a split-the-difference approach to politics.
CNN: Commentary: Obama losing independent voters
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Middle-class shoppers split the difference, discreetly downloading entire catalogs of Bollywood hits to their phones from local shop owners.
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In effect, the IMF split the difference last week, with its estimate that fiscal tightening had caused Britain's national output to be 2.5% smaller than it would have been (though the Treasury would claim that some of that effect was incorporated in the original forecast).
BBC: UK GDP: A nasty surprise and a puzzle