Then you see the water, the waves are 20 feet high, they were when I was in New Jersey, when Atlantic City was evacuated, and again everybody is going in the opposite direction to you.

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"When he's doing that, when any hitter is driving the ball to the opposite field, you know he's starting to get locked in, " Gonzalez said.

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Once in a great while a writer at the opposite end of the political spectrum gets you to look at a familiar set of facts in a new way.

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It won't fall out of place until you pull the latch in the opposite direction to release the slate.

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Any animal expert could tell you that timber wolves are more likely to run in the opposite direction than give chase to humans.

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You can introduce some search and congestion effects to get higher unemployment but the increase should be relatively mild, as you have to remember that the opposite effect should be occurring in the high skilled market and low skilled folks be dropping out.

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In the lift line, you pair up with a bib of the opposite color, ride to the top, and the entrepreneur has a captive audience for 7 minutes to make his pitch.

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To unwind a position, you just do the opposite of what you did in the first place.

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And so if anything you would expect and want from a social standpoint the trend to be exactly in the opposite direction - that is broaden access to higher education for America's children from more modest backgrounds.

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On the opposite side of the spectrum, numerous active management techniques allow you to shuffle assets and allocations around in an attempt to increase overall returns.

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Karsch used the opposite approach when it came to developing the Cigna brand and advertising, which ultimately resulted in the tag line, Go You, since Cigna supports the individuality of each customer.

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