In the blue states the opposite is starting to be true: The richer and more educated one is, the likelier one is to vote Democratic or Independent.

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The response of the United States is the opposite of what one might consider necessary.

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Warning: A few states are taking the opposite tack, stepping up enforcement to fill their coffers.

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The opposite is true in the United States, where the poor often live in old, decaying neighborhoods, which raises another issue.

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When major economies, such as the United States and China, with opposite strengths and weaknesses can rectify and fortify each other, the world will be able to thrive on a virtuous cycle of globalization.

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If, as Senator Bill Bradley and others have suggested, Western government credits and loan guarantees are taxpayer subsidies which should be ended multilaterally, then the United States should not send the opposite signal to our allies by restoring such U.S. credit subsidies.

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The key point Bush made was that it is time to put aside the doctrine of mutually assured destruction that was the bedrock of security during the Cold War when it was basically a bipolar world, with the United States and the Soviet Union on opposite sides.

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Some states looking for revenue are going in the opposite direction of Ohio.

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Yes, 29 states and Congress have passed laws restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples.

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The United States right now needs to be moving in the opposite direction from the one we are currently heading in.

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While other countries have banned the use of BPA, the United States, driven by the powerful chemical industry, takes the opposite approach: refusing to regulate BPA until there is strong evidence to prove it is unsafe.

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In states and districts that slightly favor one party and have been traditionally represented by moderates from the opposite party, the very lawmakers viewed as "problem solvers" are tossed out in favor of those who promise change, Ornstein said.

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The modern United States has a few examples of governments trying to perform commercial activities, but increasingly we suffer from the opposite problem: formally private institutions given special legal privileges by the state.

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