Counterintuitively, the way to get big is to start very focused and deliberately small.

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Counterintuitively, one can end up with a far brighter room than when one opts for the safer, lighter palettes.

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Which, counterintuitively perhaps, means that those running not for profits need to pay even more attention to the problem.

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As you can see from the above chart, perhaps counterintuitively, spikes in prices tend to sow the seeds of their own decline.

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Counterintuitively, the random investing strategy was much less volatile than the others.

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They were also high in those taking aspirin which, counterintuitively, is often prescribed to reduce clot formation and thus prevent heart attacks.

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He said he knows athletes who lose muscle, not fat, when they fall off their exercise regimen, and then are counterintuitively reclassified from overweight to normal weight.

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Counterintuitively, the dollar seemed to have suffered widespread losses on Friday, a day that Japanese currency intervention would appear to pump up demand for the greenback and prop up its value.

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Unfortunately, today the Bush administration is behaving counterintuitively.

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Perhaps counterintuitively, and you'll have to forget O'Brien's heroics for a minute, Australia's statistics show that often the side going for and even connecting with the big shots is not the winner: it is actually more effective simply to score off as many balls as possible.

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