The Blackstone Group and the Carlyle Group demonstrated on Thursday that the private equity industry is thriving amid a weak economy — but they did so in nearly opposing ways.
The large eigenvalue corresponds to the fact that two nearly opposing pathways contribute to the response, which makes the variance of the spike-triggered stimulus ensemble along this direction particularly large.
But other initiatives moving on to the ballot -- by which I do not mean heiress Molly Munger's zombie income tax hike on nearly all (opposed by nearly 60% in this latest poll, as in other polling) -- may be problematic.
Dentists, it turns out, are not nearly as opposed to gum — or, at least, to sugarless gum — as schoolteachers are.
In the Vyatsky Market, an array of stalls in northern Moscow where vendors hawk low-priced food, pensioners were nearly uniformly opposed to the plan.
"Nonetheless, industry has to this point nearly unanimously opposed even a basic regulatory framework that would ensure the protection of consumer privacy on the Internet -- a basic framework that has been successfully adopted in other areas of our economy.
From the beginning of the partnership, it was unclear just how Disney and Toysmart would work together, since their strategies were nearly diametrically opposed.
But for all their superficial similarities, Tweetsie and Westworld have nearly diametrically opposed philosophies: While the former clings to a representation of the West that dominated American pop culture for decades, the latter demands a radical rewriting in which the background characters of western mythology come forth to demand their day as heroes.
The rRNA genes are nearly diametrically opposed, and all but two proteins and one tRNA on one side of them are on the same strand, while all but one tRNA on the other side are on the opposite strand.
Nearly 70% oppose Norway seeking to join the EU.
Nearly 60% oppose the NSA's collection of data on telephone and internet usage.
