31.   The administrative law judge, Francis L. Young, had reached the opposite conclusion.

32.   The decision was a milestone, not only because European officials blocked a deal between two American companies, but because U.S. antitrust regulators had reached the opposite conclusion.

33.   The dissenters came to the opposite conclusion, saying the stay would do irreparable harm to Gore.

34.   The opposite conclusion is true, said the General Accounting Office, the audit arm of Congress.

35.   They came to the opposite conclusion, discerning a slight decline in jobs at the New Jersey restaurants.

36.   Today, however, top fixed-income analysts paint vastly different pictures for the economy, and they come to starkly opposite conclusions.

37.   Two scientists, however, reached the opposite conclusion.

38.   Two weeks later, however, a Pennsylvania court came to the opposite conclusion, relying on the new study.

39.   Two other federal appeals courts have come to the opposite conclusion.

40.   While conventional economic theory argues against raising the minimum wage, two respected labor economists contend that the data support the opposite conclusion.