Comus," she said quietly and wearily, "you are an exact reversal of the legend of Pandora's Box.

They finished with a 56-26 record-a nearly exact reversal of the previous record.

One requirement of using that algorithm is that backtracking must be done as an exact reversal of eliminations.

"That is an exact reversal of the usual method of establishing a proof," said Spock.

The result was an exact reversal, with the Nationals having the 55-32 control of the House.

According to Green, this was a nearly exact reversal of the run-up to the 1996 election.

Those numbers were an exact reversal of Mr. Bush's standing at the beginning of the month, when 51 percent said they would be uneasy and 37 percent confident.

It sounds incredible, but that is only because hypnotic phenomena are the exact reversals of normal experience.

The series was an exact reversal of the prior year, with the Lakers winning Game 1 and the Knicks taking the next four games.

It would be too much for them to hope for an exact reversal of that World Series this time, especially with Brosius standing in the batter's box against them.