The current high pay for government jobs, however, has reversed this effect to a great extent.

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Obama even slightly reversed the Bradley Effect by outperforming the poll predictions in the 2008 election.

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Unless reversed, the cumulative effect of these past and pending actions will be the unplugging of some of the most important conduits of America's soft power.

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Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears patent appeals, reversed, saying in effect the body of the patient was a machine that transformed the thiopurine into something completely new.

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Interestingly, the directional effect is reversed for basketball: teams crossing the country from west to east scored four more points per game than those travelling in the opposite direction.

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In the second period, though, the effect was reversed.

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Mary Woolnoth, when finished in 1716, stood alone in a newly cleared area, a bold effect that later centuries reversed.

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But Republican Gov. Mary Fallin, a conservative elected in the GOP landslide of 2010 on a promise to cut spending, reversed course last year after grim warnings about the effect on public safety, and after several teen suicides in Oklahoma City.

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So since those policies began to take effect, the decline in our GDP was halted and reversed.

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But now the process is being reversed - Greeks are moving in the other direction, away from urban financial hardship as the effect of the crisis deepens.

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