Mr Bush's administration was sometimes accused of the opposite bias: understating benefits and overstating costs.

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They will sometimes argue that the opposite should be happening: give poor people of cash rather than food stamps.

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The secret is to sometimes tell her the opposite of what you would like, and this way the end result will please you both.

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Indeed the opposite tendency is sometimes evidence: when society or the economy changes, ways of acting that used to work most of the time now may no longer work at all.

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Meanwhile, the old and obsolete laws collect dust, waiting to spring back to life for all the wrong reasons, sometimes to enforce precisely the opposite result to what well-meaning supporters hoped to achieve.

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But the IMF can't rely on goodwill alone, in fact sometimes it needs to inspire the exact opposite.

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Choosing the exact opposite of what pressured views stipulate is sometimes a way to re-establish your freedom to conduct your own affairs.

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In the past, a typewritten envelope has sometimes proved to contain something extremely unpleasant - but this time the opposite was true.

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Sometimes quotes are mangled so badly as to be twisted into a complete opposite of their intentions.

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That doesn't mean that merged companies don't sometimes streamline labs and produce more medicines, but too often the exact opposite seems to happen.

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