And to some degree they work, though they make no difference once you blow through the deductible.
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The suggested measures would make no difference if an attack involved a large scale device, he said.
Even if the court decided in favour of the sceptics, some euro-fans argue it would make no difference.
Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie told CBS that Nader's candidacy would make no difference to Bush's re-election bid.
In theory (again), it should make no difference whether a company decides to fund itself with shares or debt.
We can go further too: sunk costs make no difference at all to the marginal costs of providing something.
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But the laws that have emerged make no difference to this at all.
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Every year thereafter, its benefits would diminish, and by the age of 60 it would make no difference to her life expectancy.
Proponents of the change say it would make no difference, other than to make the true financial state of a company more visible.
In theory it should make no difference whether a company returns cash to its shareholders by repurchasing shares or by raising its dividend.
Cosmetics that make no difference in the operation of the gun or its effectiveness, but that scare dilettante suburbanites, provide no such rational basis.
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The confirmation of Richard's remains may make no difference in the royal world, but it does mean the king will finally get a proper burial.
But how a teacher desists her tone of voice, her attitudes, her choice of words appears to make no difference at all in maintaining an orderly classroom.
"It'll make no difference to me whatsoever, " said one stall holder.
Actually, these are two different ways of measuring the same thing, so whether a model uses one or the other should make no difference to its predictions.
He said he thought the change would make no difference to residents or visitors but was "more of an exercise in making the face of Sark more acceptable to the outside world".
The industry accepted regulations needed to be updated, he added, but this would make no difference unless they were properly enforced and there needed to be a uniform approach by the police.
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While the write-off would make no difference to a tax-exempt investor, a taxable investor in the 30% tax bracket would get an after-tax income stream comparable to another REIT yielding 7.14%, a substantial difference.
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Moreover, even in some unimaginable world in which you could get gun confiscation, universal background checks would make no difference -- there are about 300 million guns in America with no need to go through any background check.
In practice, really, it'll make no difference to the end user whether all this magic is accomplished in a proxy or the browser itself -- as long as we get some thoroughly-reworked rendering capability to go along with it, of course.
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But one property developer said the change would "make no significant difference".
When it comes to making care better and cheaper, changing who pays the doctor will make no more difference than changing who pays the electrician.
That their children will be denied legal status at some point in the future will make no palpable difference to folks confronting a life-and-death situation now.
Clearly, a 90 cent minimum wage would make no darn difference to anyone. 6 year olds get more than that these days for tidying their rooms.
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For the rules that have actually emerged make absolutely no difference at all to the particular problem that was used as the poster child to get the law passed.
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For most fliers who are not professional billiards players these changes will make little or no difference, though for some it will be nice to have that little Swiss Army Knife on hand again.
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