1.   All countries have their rich and poor, of course, but for years Israel was relatively immune to vast disparities.

2.   But some express concern that vast disparities further disconnect poor people from the economic mainstream and can place additional economic and social pressures on a struggling middle class.

3.   Conservatives contend that a vast disparity in incomes is the wonderful, inevitable product of a free marketplace, in which some people operate more successfully than others.

4.   Elsewhere, vast disparities in wealth, land ownership and power have been at the root of conflict.

5.   Even those statistics understate the vast disparity in disclosure.

6.   For a common monetary policy would make it harder than ever for Europe to cope with high unemployment and vast disparities in living standards.

7.   High unemployment and vast disparities in living standards would become harder to deal with.

8.   How did this vast disparity come to be?

9.   It is a region of vast economic disparities as well.

10.   It would assure a smoother fusion than occurred in Germany, where there was a vast disparity between the West German and East German currencies.