Word: differing
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...powerhouses, closed up shop. Wal-Mart is quickly adding scalps in the grocery industry too. Wal-Mart's next competitive weapon is advanced data mining, which it will use to forecast, replenish and merchandise on a micro scale, so that even stores close to one another could have substantially different offerings. By analyzing years' worth of sales data - and then cranking in variables such as the weather and school schedules - the system could predict the optimal number of cases of Lucozade, in what flavors and sizes, a store in Canterbury should have on hand the Friday before a bank holiday...
...circumstances of your arrest differ this time? The first time around I spent a year-and-a-half in solitary confinement, under constant interrogation between my arrest and my trial. It was terrifying and mentally exhausting. In 1998 I decided I didn't owe the authorities any explanations, and I didn't answer a single question. The sentencing process only took a month and I entered jail feeling much more at peace...
...your treatment in prison differ? I was treated much better than most political prisoners this time. The authorities knew my name had become well known outside China, so they were very careful with me. I could read every day. I even read a biography of Nelson Mandela. There were eight cameras on my cell at all times. Once, when I slipped on a puddle in the latrine, two guards appeared to make sure I was O.K. They punished the person who'd left the floor...
...Harvard officials beg to differ. Sports media spokesperson John P. Veneziano scoffed at the notion The Game might be called...
...lunch with "people his own age." Most of the conversation was taken up with an agonized appraisal of the Prince's proper role, together with much royal muttering (conventional wisdom in 1985) that Britain had lost the dynamism for which it once was famous. I begged to differ, and implored the Prince to consider the new, entrepreneurial, street-cred economy being created at that very moment in the clubs and streets, the fashion houses and TV studios and advertising agencies of Soho and Covent Garden. I remember to this day the look of utter incomprehension on the Prince's face...