But if differences linger, and the careful schedule that provides for elections in 2009 and a referendum on southern independence in 2011 begins to slip much further, Sudan could find itself sliding back into a swamp deeper even than Darfur's.
Our differences linger, for worse and for better.
They put aside whatever differences lingered from the stinging November 8th defeat and began to work together in every congressional district.
Those differences will linger.
Meara noted that more people need better health care but that "the health-care system is only a part of health". Income inequality, nutrition differences and lingering unemployment all need to be addressed, she said.
In Germany, even though East Germans had for years seen Western life every night on television, and the contacts between the two Germanys, capitalist and Communist, were closer by far than those between South Korea and the hermetic North, differences still linger, a decade after reunification.
Penn State's announcement that it has paid the Paterno family more than $5.5 million in honoring Joe Paterno's contract obligations seemed like it might signal that the school and the family of its legendary coach had settled whatever differences might linger over Paterno's firing.
But it is clear that those supporters will have to work much harder to win over the financial services industry than they did in 2008, before Wall Street's bust, the subsequent clashes over policy and the sometimes bitter personal differences that lingered afterward.
While some may argue that midget wrestling is a personal choice made by those who participate, it is a reminder that remnants of the side show and freak show era, when people with dwarfism were put on display because of their physical differences, still linger today.
History plays a major role in this lingering difference in savings volatility.
The price gap reflects lingering differences in hue and luster.
