Not only are they not close, they are not even in the same ballpark.

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Thus, spouses with incomes in the same ballpark still paid marriage penalties.

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He reached the championship game that was held in the same ballpark where the center fielder plays for the San Francisco Giants.

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So finally and once again, a white person or epileptic person is not in the same ballpark of claiming to be born homosexual.

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That's in the same ballpark as the other two problem cases.

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Even if you ruled out all those 11-, 14- and 15-inch Ultrabooks, you'd find yourself faced with dozens of 13-inch contenders, many of them priced in the same ballpark.

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This is not even in the same ballpark.

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By adapting the technology to 1-by-1-foot modules--each containing 16 rows and columns of red, blue and green pixels--that could be loaded on to circuit boards, Daktronics could finally compete in the same ballpark as Sony and Mitsubishi, offering a video-ready scoreboard.

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" NBA Commissioner David Stern has said the offers are in "the same ballpark.

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