I think the people of New Hampshire are smart enough to understand the difference between that and straight talk.

But there's a difference between talk and action.

Given the choice between action and talk, they will talk.

But a disquieting phenomenon in this market, say some analysts, is the disparity between talk and action.

The rest of that time probably will be divided between talk of the game and news reports.

The disparity between talk and action illustrated how hard it will be to get a grip on spending.

There is surely a basic contradiction there between talk and reality.

Since then he has alternated between calls for law and order and sympathetic talk about urban needs.

One, obviously, is there is a difference between talk and reality.

Yet in both, these days, work proceeds on an identical challenge: how, exactly, to calibrate the balance between talk and singing.