1.   At the cafe, cultural and tribal distinctions seem to evaporate in an atmosphere of frying bread and busy chatter.

2.   But since the guerrillas earn money and acquire arms from drug trafficking, that distinction seems increasingly unconvincing to Ecuadoreans worried about getting dragged into the conflict.

3.   But the distinction seems lost on them both.

4.   Call it a modern-day discovery because any distinction seemed silly centuries back, when man was tied so closely to the land.

5.   Comfort and convenience are obviously the main attractions, but a certain social distinction seems to be in the sartorial calculus as well.

6.   If this distinction seems esoteric, well, it is.

7.   Indeed, these new distinctions seemed only to encourage him in his efforts to prevent nuclear war.

8.   Like some laws, their distinctions seem technical in nature and subject to evasion through loopholes.

9.   That distinction would seem to provide a legal rationale for the Justice Department to block the Microsoft-Intuit merger but allow IBM to acquire Lotus.

10.   The distinction seems to have been missed here.