Spain has succeeded in reducing its own spread vis à vis Germany but only after a policy U turn.

The Latin Difference

Spot the difference!

The difference in wages shall be compensated.

Sweden has huge differences in earnings, and it narrows the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous benefits and so on.

Still, there is a big difference between an Iraq that struggles and one that implodes between an Iraq that contributes to global energy security rather than undermining it between a civil war and a regional war.

Voters need to know the difference.

Today, the two countries are vastly different.

But a fifth difference points in the other direction.

That difference matters.

Why are these trajectories so different?

The two issues are dated 23 years apart.

We also think that individuals can make a difference, and they should, because individuals, together, we can all help create a movement.

The theory behind the massive economic stimulus efforts that many governments have undertaken rests on the notion of the output gap. This is the difference between an economy s actual output and its potential output.

For stock markets, the difference may be important.

The first difference concerns how growth itself is conceived.

Heat storage on the Earth's surface causes thermal lag.

The magnitude of the two attacks was, of course, very different thousands were killed and major national landmarks destroyed in 2001, whereas the Boston bombing killed three people and injured roughly 260.

In a fully electronic system that requires no verification of registered data by the registrar, the time difference between receipt of the data by the registrar and their availability to searchers is minimal and this problem is significantly reduced.

It brings to mind a headline I saw recently Education The Great Divide.

The difference, it was argued, was monetary union.

The Panel has, therefore, made an adjustment to take account of the difference.

It depends on a distinction that you draw between statics of the political system and the dynamics of the political system.

But there is a critical difference between balancing and subservience.

A fair trade regime would have helped reduce that disparity.

He understood the distinction between US objectives and Australia s national interests.

When we group chimpanzees together with, say, snakes, as animals, we imply that the gap between us and chimpanzees is greater than the gap between chimpanzees and snakes.

This difference is a result of the monopolistic structure of the wholesale segment of distribution that allows for speculative behaviour and in the case of franchising difference is due to changes in consumers' preferences and tastes.

At the elite level, the difference between being a champion and an also ran is so miniscule, and yet matters so much, that athletes are pressured to do whatever they can to gain the slightest edge over their competitors.

While these schemes allowed the identification and classification of bacterial strains, it was unclear whether these differences represented variation between distinct species or between strains of the same species.

After spending all that money, we would not even be able to tell the difference.

That gap proved the difference between the success of the father and the failure of the son.

The greatest difference between 2009 and 1979 was created by the revolution itself.

At least part of the difference can be attributed to hot money.

A second difference between the two models lies in whether consumer or producer interests are privileged.

The distinction between the two prices is the foundation of modern finance theory.

Mainland Chinese netizens spotted the difference when reading the Tainan progress report.

The difference between men and women becomes greater, the more advanced their age.

One is the gap in opportunity this gap that President Clinton last night called uneven, unfair and unsustainable and, out of that, comes poverty and illiteracy and disease and all these evils that we see around us.

The difference, which banks offset through transactions in the inter bank currency market, has a significant impact on China s foreign exchange reserves, but is not equivalent to the net change in foreign exchange reserves during the same period.

The long term nominal and real Treasury rates continue to be absurdly low, so much so that I rub my eyes whenever I see them. And the market inflation forecast the spread between Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and normal Treasuries remains extremely tame.

You know, if I can make a difference, I hope to be able to make a difference.

Then there is the most fundamental and hence easily overlooked difference of all.

Finally, the storage argument fails to recognize different types of inventory.

Thus, 4.3 percentage points of the initial average difference of 27.4 can be attributed to the differences in the human capital of men and women, and to other observable factors.