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Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.
Some nations have already cut their GPD to 2 percent.
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Does he himself play, or has he merely observed others?
Playing is better than observing.
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But less tendentious media outlets have also reported on Albright's ethnic background.
Mainstream media is also reporting on Albright's ethnic background.
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Seconds after tipoff, Jordan launched a turnaround jumper, his new signature shot, hitting nothing but net.
Jordan's jumper was a signature shot because it was reliable.
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I will involve them in after-school programs, maternity group homes, prison fellowships, and drug treatment programs.
After-school programs are a great way to inspire kids and keep them occupied.
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I thought of ending the book with his quote, but then some other stuff happened in his life (you'll have to buy the book--$24.
The book ends with his quote.
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Storr makes large claims for these paintings, seeing them as the first successful attempt to systematize the 'allover' painting invented by Pollock and Rothko.
Pollock and Rothko created the 'allover' painting in Storr's eyes.
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So maybe the questions he proliferates here (here, unlike in his books, he questions the notion of a surgical strike, and here he wonders, Who has told us that it is OK to kill women and children?
His book focused on statements he considered true. .
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For about $50,000, the blind can have a circuit board inserted in their brains that will stimulate the visual cortex and produce grainy black-and-white images out of optical data captured through a tiny camera.
The price of the circuit board that can be inserted into the brain of the blind will drop in cost soon.
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I will involve them in after-school programs, maternity group homes, prison fellowships, and drug treatment programs.
They will be involved in programs geared toward homeless people.
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According to Kristol, Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson's Norquist proposal because he didn't want the magazine to be seen as carrying on a vendetta against Gingrich.
Kristol reports that the Deputy Editor has no qualms about appearing antagonistic towards Gingrich.
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However, from my own experience, a newborn becomes a 12-month-old and then an 18-month-old rather quickly.
From my understanding infants become toddlers very fast.
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I am puzzled about what to say on the subject of my religion.
My religion is very confusing.
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Romantics will warm to further Enquirer disclosures.
Romantics despise disclosures by the Enquirer.
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Newsweek 's longer piece likens this to swapping Katharine Hepburn for Whitney was revered for her practicality, whereas Fuller exudes buzz.
Newsweek thinks that Fuller is superior to Hepburn.
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After writing a polemical 1996 essay attacking Huckleberry Finn as immoral, Pulitzer Prize winner Smiley sets out to improve on Twain with a novel about an abolitionist woman in antebellum Kansas Territory.
The classic Twain novel is perfect in Smiley's eyes.
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(Isn't there some high-tech way to fly him from class to class, perhaps on Boeing's new Delta III rocket; you know, once it stops malfunctioning.)
Boeing's Delta III rocket is high-tech, and doesn't work properly.
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Editorialists labored to connect the two contrary outcomes.
It was a challenge to link both outcomes.
entailment
The Amman fiasco could cost both Israel and Mossad.
The Amman failure will strengthen their position with Israel and Mossad
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are laughing at us saying if we make it thsese [ sic ] stupid ass Niggaz Will Buy it.
They think black people are very smart.
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Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.
A surge of attention is a momentary promise.
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A whole Lincoln bedroom full of cliches, says Newsday 's John Anderson.
Anderson works for Newsday.
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You know, it's not a bad idea to close the windows when it rains.
It's a good idea to open up the windows when it rains.
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There is no sign yet that the administration is tempted by mea culpa/ Forgive and Forget.
The administration has not shown they are tempted by mea culpa.
entailment
In Gigot's mind, he is the most successful loser in political history--his failed presidential run defined a conservative agenda that was eventually elected in the person of Ronald Reagan.
By running on his superb conservative agenda, Gigot defeated Ronald Reagan.
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Among the single digits, no number is less evocative than six.
The number six is one of the ten single digits numbers
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Mine's a full week old, and he's still acting like a drunk.
They normally stop acting like a drunk in a few days.
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Newsweek lambastes the president for diplomatic errors and missed opportunities: Security advisers originally told the administration to offer President Slobodan Milosevic a face-saving compromise; when action became inevitable, they recommended strengthening NATO's military threat; finally, as airstrikes began, they urged planning for the refugee crisis sure to come.
Newsweek lambastes the refugee crisis as a missed opportunity for the administration.
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It does not report whether he has sought the services of Catherine Oxenberg.
Her services are unnecessary for him, and the report proves this.
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Then you can celebrate your license by getting high.
You could also celebrate with a drink or five.
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They need more openness, not less.
They needed to be more inviting.
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He still exaggerates the hostility displayed, and says that Saxton won't let me answer when in fact Reich's chief economist is later allowed to deliver a lecture-length reply.
The anger that is being described is quite overstated.
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And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
Allergies severely reduce life spans.
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You don't have to teach Rik Smits how to make post moves.
Rik Smits can't shoot 3s to save his life.
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Time excerpts its own 1979 article about cult leaders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Nettles (then Bo and Peep).
Bo and Peep are nicknames for cult leaders.
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Powell, on the other hand, had a marriage, a child, lovers (male and female), loyal friends.
Not everyone agree with Powell's lifestyle.
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At the same time it would teach today's youth about the real-life value of the Second Amendment.
Little would be learned by today's youth regarding the 2nd Amendment.
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The sunny We nailed the terrorists.
Nobody was happy when the Terriists were destroyed.
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(Or maybe it isn't so Philip Weiss tellingly led his attack on Farrow in the New York Observer last week with a little temper tantrum at his mom.)
The New York Observer allows people to throw temper tantrums.
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The English gutter press, which was just developing a wide audience, whipped up public hatred toward him over his sex crimes and made him a pariah.
The newspaper caused public hatred towards him over his sex crimes.
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They were men without color, literally wearing gray and beige and brown.
The men were wearing bland clothes.
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That is a rough description of what Kevin Phillips later called the emerging Republican the crowd whose voting habits were molded by the act of detesting the likes of Bobby Kennedy--politicians who never worked a day in their lives, who were eager (so the perception went) to oppress the plain folk with burdensome taxes in order to fatten the undeserving poor, eager to sell out America's military supremacy out of some guilt-ridden moralism.
Detesting Bobby Kennedy molded voting habits of the emerging Republicans.
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The message confused some of Red Eye's subscribers, and Red Herring rapidly began a damage control campaign.
The confusion was left to grow and fester.
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We won't be making extravagant claims for the Internet anymore, but will accept that it's just a tool--sometimes extremely useful, sometimes not.
The Internet provides very useful information but yet some bogus information.
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Both Germany and the United States classify the PKK as a terrorist organization .
No country calls the PKK a terrorist organization.
contradiction
We always knew they had it in them.
They were smart.
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The early scenes evoke elation and dread simultaneously, the later ones just dread; and the last half-hour is unrelieved torture.
Viewers will experience ambivalence watching the early scenes.
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On the other hand, some states have passed new laws that treat juvenile criminals as responsible adults.
Teenagers are sometimes treated as adults when they commit a crime.
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Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force.
The troops are trained for an invasion.
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The first moral is that children are never safer than when staring at a computer screen.
Sitting in front of and looking at an electronic device is a safe place for kids to be.
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Nobody ever wanted to emulate this effect
The effect can be often deadly
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But failing to be a villain doesn't make him a hero, either.
Heroes are not the result of villains failing to be villains.
entailment
Providing escape routes from the inner city may make the ghettos worse by depriving them of their most competent residents.
All competent residents escape ghettos.
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Unlike most strips, his was about adults, albeit adults depicted as children.
The protagonists of his strips were infants.
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Think about seedless grapes or navel oranges--if there are no seeds, where did they come from?
It's curious to ponder the origins of seedless fruits.
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A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice.
According to Time, the electric car movement is slowing.
entailment
Against this background, Bush's Guard service looks noble.
Bush does not have any service Guards that look noble.
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But he was abrupt with her--not rude, just abrupt.
She would leave soon, seeing as he was in a hurry to finish speaking with her.
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If you've installed Internet Explorer 4.0, click here for more about (and a chance to download) the channel.
When installing, make sure to have auto-updates turned on in the settings.
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The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous.
Time has changed Torah's text for the worse.
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And there is yet another valid that the widespread transmission of racial stereotypes might indeed be helpful to hate groups.
The transmission of racial stereotypes greatly assists hate groups.
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If you want to know what a real myth is, don't bother with synergy.
If you don't bother with synergy, you can believe the myth.
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When a black wanted to buy a franchise to establish a numbers bank, he went to Bumpy.
Bumpy was a reliable source of information and became well-known across the nation.
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Why don't you respond that, in the infinite wisdom of your procrastination, you somehow divined the marriage would be a dud, and you think you will give this one a similar two year trial period?
The author interrogates someone about their knowledge of a relationship that continues to last.
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But mostly there is the spectacle of technique brought to bear on form; and although this is a minimal definition of art, there is nothing minimal about the results.
Although this is a basic definition of art, the outcome was not.
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(Incidentally, half of the 1992 donations failed, when first disclosed to the FEC, to reveal that the source was a student.)
The source of the donations was a student.
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That was back when the Bushes were still trying to woo me over from the Dark Side.
There Bushes were loved by everyone.
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And at the end, when Baryshnikov throws himself into the arms of his father, who wraps him in his prayer shawl, one gets a powerful sense of the goodness of man and God.
Baryshnikov shunned his dad and cursed God.
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Critics scoff at high-tech guru Esther Dyson's claims that the Internet will expand democracy, build communities, and liberate workers.
Critics are skeptical about Dyson's declarations regarding the web.
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So, what kind of Jew am I after 60 years of consciousness-raising?
Over those 60 years, there were times I considered converting.
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While poisoning dogs is strictly illegal, there have to be two witnesses who saw the laying down of the poison, and even then the punishment is only a modest fine.
The punishment for poisoning a dog is likely to be made harsher in the near future
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Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things.
The demand for things falls on a schedule.
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It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move.
The movie was a flop.
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3) The appeals court's decision has nasty ramifications for the entire government.
The court will have a nasty government for their decision.
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Or maybe only 30 are true, in which case three should be confirmed overwhelmingly.
Only one case should be confirmed overwhelmingly.
contradiction
Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson vows to blow the whistle on candidates who tear down other Republicans.
Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson vowed that he would stay out of the way of candidates who tear down other Republicans.
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The media's willingness to buy this line was a result, in part, of the White House's ongoing campaign to depict Clinton as the victim of an inexorable right-wing machine.
The media is willing to buy the line of the White House being a victim of the right-wing machine.
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There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.
Eszterhas' self-image is perfectly reflected in his work
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Instead, it's the company that owns the name that dictates the terms.
The name belongs to the public and can be freely used.
contradiction
Zeus, not surprisingly, fancies himself their leader.
Zeus is a great leader.
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My mother, who is a charming woman in almost all other respects, appears to have a grave problem staying employed.
My mother is very annoying in most regards.
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Democrats have done themselves a lot of harm by refusing to discriminate between those programs that are vital and those that are not.
So far the Democrats have been flawless in their actions.
contradiction
3) Fragmentary intelligence suggests that China wanted to channel money to Clinton's campaign.
Intelligence didn't detect anything that would suggest china wanted anything to do with the Clinton Campaign.
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It would be very interesting to perform the same experiment with, say, medical journals instead of economics journals.
The experiment would benefit from other academic journals in a different field of study.
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To ward off increasingly strident demands from leftists, Rockefeller wanted to create businesses that would raise people's standard of living; using his own resources, he set up companies to raise cattle, grow crops, market food, develop natural resources, and build housing.
The now household name rebounded from heartbreaking losses in his early days.
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Our powerful, multipurpose computers will continue to become even more powerful, but as they acquire new skills--like voice recognition--their appeal will be limited by their price.
As computers begin to further utilize machine learning, their higher price tag will be disliked by buyers.
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You look like f--ing hell, Brando, the Star reports he said, and he advised the actor to lose maybe a hundred pounds, pallie.
Brando did not take offense to what was said to him.
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If the job were held by someone other than Tripp, would it pay any less or involve any more work?
Tripp is unemployed.
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Especially now, when any investor can obtain almost perfect diversification with index funds and index options--and thus get the exact return of the market as a whole.
An investor puts money in index funds and index options, with single stocks also.
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Smith's decision this year to push a measure in the House that would spend as much birth-control money as the president asked might seem like progress.
It may seem like Progress, Smith's decision to push a measure spending less on birth control than the president.
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Editorialists conducted the usual food-scare calming the public and explaining that risk can never be eliminated, while decrying ad hoc government responses and demanding stricter laws.
Editorialists want tougher laws dealing with food.
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First, two students were charged with killing their infant in a motel room and dumping it in the trash.
The students were on drugs.
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As Prince Charles arrived Monday in Sri Lanka for an official visit marking the 50 th anniversary of its independence from Britain, he was reported to be considering canceling a plan to confer a knighthood there on the expatriate British writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 2001: A Space Odyssey ) following a front-page story in the London Sunday Mirror reporting claims that Clarke had paid for sex with young boys.
Sri Lanka separated from Britain 50 years before this visit of Prince Charles.
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(Thank you.)
I do not appreciate your effort at all.
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Or Morris could have contacted Dorothy Healey, who was the chair of the Southern California Communist Party during the '40s.
Morris did not contact Dorothy Healey.
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Name-calling began at their first interaction.
Name calling was seen from the very beginning.
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For all I know, some hockey fans go for the fights.
Not all hockey fans want to see the fights.
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In this light the meaning of his call to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics seems separate but equal.
The meaning was probably to keep politics equal.
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When Kurlak cuts his rating on Intel, what matters is not that he's right or wrong about Intel's prospects but that his cut in the rating will drop the stock regardless.
Kurlak's Intel rating cuts will have repercussions on the stocks
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And parents of both sexes should remember that growing children are the fastest-paced Americans of them all.
Parents grow faster than children have sexes.
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