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

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The company's managed to add the big bezels to the proceedings without detracting too much from the overall look of the device -- if anything, it offers up a distinction (though, of course, not so pronounced as that of its big brother) from a slew of lookalike slates.

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