Quite the opposite, my efforts have been aimed at convincing others of the need for larger, more capable Afghan security forces".
The reality is exactly the opposite: Their efforts often go unrecognized.
Rather than being a prescient effort to promote consumer regulation, this report was seen at the time as the exact opposite: an effort to obstruct serious regulation.
What I found instead was nearly the opposite, an effort at "computational creativity" that relies as much on software models of the psychology of taste perception as it does on a database of recipes.
No doubt many Israelis have racist attitudes towards Arabs, but the official philosophy of the government is quite the opposite, and sincere efforts are made to, for example, instill humanitarian and egalitarian attitudes in children.
It is largely a middle ground focus, not an over-kill effort to force the mind or a violent effort to destroy aspects of it (which is a fruitless endeavour), nor is it its opposite - no effort.
In fact, just the opposite, they try to hide the necessary effort for them to be available for use.
But Deborah Curtis, dean of the education college at Illinois State University, took away the opposite lesson from her efforts to communicate directly with Ms. Walsh's research staff.
To spend time with this Queens family is to see, up close, how the growing disparities within immigrant homes are pulling their members in opposite directions and complicating efforts to plan a common future.
But that's not to say that Bonobos is reducing its engineering efforts — the opposite, in fact.
