This is a distinction without much difference in the current context.

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As a strategy consultant, I get to know companies for a living, and I meet all kinds: Many try to coast along without much difference or distinction.

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So while Bush sounds like he's proposing substantial cuts in nuclear force levels, it could be a difference without much distinction.

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To cut calories without feeling too hungry, keep a food journal for a week and try to identify eating occasions during which you could cut 50 to 100 calories without noticing much of a difference.

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Natasha Baker, another British dressage rider born without much function in her legs, said the only visible difference is that she doesn't use stirrups.

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"It would make such a difference if people would start to look into the history of this much maligned monarch without the old prejudices, " Stone wrote.

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