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The most notable example was his engineering of a state takeover of the Long Island Lighting Company, which he had opposed a few years before.

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Protesters descended on Indianapolis yesterday to oppose a few anti-union bills, including one that limits collective bargaining for teachers.

Candidates who opposed a casino garnered few votes, and tribal leaders say the high turnout and the strong support for the pro-casino incumbents provide a mandate to continue fine-tuning plans for a 52,000-square-foot casino and bingo hall.

"Big banks are going after millions of customers as opposed to a few hundred thousand," he said.

In particular, Oracle 8 will support a couple of thousand, as opposed to a few hundred, concurrent users.

The news cycle is now constant — by the second — as opposed to a few years ago, when people relied on daily newspapers and the evening news.

It'll never command a SOTU-size audience, but I wouldn't be surprised if millions of people, as opposed to a few hundred thousand, eventually end up seeing it.

David Pollack of B. United International, the Chappaqua, N.Y., importer, says Dupont cider takes four months to ferment, as opposed to a few weeks for other ciders.

Although approved by the American Medical Association, the American Dietetic Association, the World Health Organization and other bodies, irradiation has long been opposed by a few activist groups.

Roberts suggests that it's because conventionally-minded experts aren't in touch with the potential of technologies that are (a) new and (b) distributed, representing choices by millions of players as opposed to a few big corporations.

The sport should offer gender equity (medals to men and women in roughly equal numbers), excellence around the world (as opposed to a few countries) and popularity among fans and sponsors.

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