Word: differences
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Perhaps so. But politicians of all political stripes agree that "poverty is wrong." They simply differ on the best ways to deal with it. No ideology or political party commands a monopoly on moral opposition to social problems...
This year's local elections are crucial. For the first time since the early 1960s, three of the City Council incumbents have decided not to run for re-election. Although each of the three--Saundra Graham, David E. Sullivan and Alfred E. Vellucci--represent viewpoints that often differ dramatically in the city, they have all generally aligned themselves with the city's "progressives." And in recent years, they have played a crucial role in maintaining the five-member council majority that supports rent control...
Even among Black activists in the city, opinions differ as to what really happened to the Commonwealth Day School...
...since 1873, when the game was introduced in Japan and soon became the national obsession as well as the national sport. Yet as journalist Robert Whiting notes in his new book You Gotta Have Wa (Macmillan), the style and, most important, the mind- set of baseball in Japan differ dramatically from those in America. Japan and the U.S., concludes Whiting, are two countries separated by a common sport...
...evidence is that we cannot detect adverse consequences to very light drinking," says Dr. Robert Sokol, head of the federally funded fetal alcohol research center at Wayne State University, in Detroit. "But that doesn't mean they don't exist." Beer, wine and hard liquor do not seem to differ in their impact on the fetus...