21.   Investors saw those differences as strengths.

22.   Investors who reckon a currency is headed lower often borrow and then sell it, hoping to buy it back cheaper, pocketing the difference as profit.

23.   It was as much a difference as going from a Model T to a Packard.

24.   Jay McGill, publisher of Popular Mechanics, described the difference as a slight graininess.

25.   Long treated as second-class Japanese, many Okinawans today see their differences as assets.

26.   Like any good odd couple, they are drawn together as much by their differences as their similarities.

27.   Many people here take the difference as proof that westerners consider them second-class citizens.

28.   New combines have helped make a huge difference as Russian entrepreneurs take over farms like this one in the Belgorod region of Russia.

29.   New Yorkers live with their differences as a matter of routine.

30.   On Friday night, he and Johnson meant the difference as younger stars like Allan Houston and Sprewell floundered around them.