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Although it hasn't dominated Seattle's skyline since the '80s, when the economic boom sprouted a host of taller buildings, it remains the city's symbol of progress.
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Buildings with fewer stories were also built during the economic boom.
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neutral
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Dissenting in the New York Times Book Review , Pico Iyer finds Cuba Libre The central moral question raised ...
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Only a few times has there ever been a review about Pico Iyer in the New York Times Book Review.
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neutral
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He says, Who are these people?
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The identities of these persons are unknown to him.
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entailment
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But in setting up a world-vs.
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To set up a world, versus doing a different thing entirely.
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entailment
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It was actually a luxurious 20/80 cotton-poly blend.
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The cotton-poly blend was really bad with a 50/50 mix.
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contradiction
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But what will Daimler get?
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Daimler will get something.
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neutral
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Aside from pure anti-Jesuit animus, this nuance probably arose from the work of some 17th-century Jesuit theologians who imperfectly employed a method known as casuistry in resolving questions of moral theology--an approach that gave the broadest possible leeway to individual behavior.
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17th-century Jesuit theologians employed casuistry.
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entailment
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This precisely echoes Justice Lewis Powell's famous explanation of permissible affirmative action in the 1978 Bakke
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Lewis Powell explained affirmative action in 1978.
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entailment
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I think I can read your story between the lines.
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The author won't learn anything from reading between the lines.
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neutral
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Conflicted over what its true mission is, PBS simultaneously whores for corporate money and aggressively gathers data on how poor, uneducated, and blue-collar its audience is.
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PBS misleads the public on it's true mission.
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neutral
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The Justice Department reportedly is investigating whether the Democratic National Committee funded Ron Carey's campaign in exchange for Teamster funding of the Clinton campaign . Republicans are demanding a special prosecutor and promising congressional investigations.
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The republicans promised their wouldn't be any congressional investigations.
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contradiction
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And so economists have, more and more, simply avoided the subject; and being human, have tended to rationalize that avoidance by asserting that the subject isn't really important anyway.
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When we avoid talking about a subject we try to justify it by getting convinced that it's not really important
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entailment
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(Actually, you could have as many judges as you wanted, as long as you ignored all but one of them.)
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It's better to have more judges than just one in a court.
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neutral
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An article hypes the Hale-Bopp comet, which will be visible for the next month, as the best celestial show in decades.
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The author suggests stargazers view the comet during the new moon so there is no distracting light.
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neutral
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Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth).
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Famous feminists hold nude events.
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entailment
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It was a pleasure working with you.
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You made it difficult to complete the task.
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contradiction
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He calls his artists No Limit Soldiers.
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No Limit Soldiers do abstract art.
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neutral
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All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences.
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The three know nothing about science.
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contradiction
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Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering, and say its American performance would have been [b]etter never, perhaps, than late (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ).
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Wagner bashed Pfitzner's work.
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neutral
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An unruffled Blitzer counteroffers, We don't have that much time.
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Blitzer seems unperturbed and responds.
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entailment
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these many columns and articles on the subject.
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Various texts have been written on it.
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entailment
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Martha is finally being treated as the CEO of a company called Omnimedia, not as a bitchy hausfrau.
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Martha, the company CEO, was then treated respectfully through the end of her tenure.
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neutral
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Industry folks fear they have given too much away.
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The folks in the industry were glad to give away more.
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contradiction
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Sani Abacha died , reportedly of a heart attack.
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Something happened to Sani .
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neutral
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The product itself won't be in stores until summer, so it's way too early to know how the shaving public will respond.
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The shaving product is aimed at beach-goers who like to flaunt their bodies under the hot sun.
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neutral
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Might they be used for this purpose before meeting their ends if we make their deaths as humane as possible?
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We made their deaths serve our goals, which brought great benefit to our cause.
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neutral
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Then Bauer hit Bush for not adhering to conservative values, being clandestinely pro-abortion, and assorted other sins.
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Bush ignored conservative values and was attacked by Bauer.
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entailment
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Wore a rag on his head.
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A tattered cloth was on his head.
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entailment
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Still, yours is certainly an arguable position, which we can discuss sometime.
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We can talk it over next Thursday when we are both free.
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neutral
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The principal and persuasive Democratic The only new thing Starr said was that he has exonerated Clinton in Filegate and Travelgate.
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Starr found Clinton guilty of all events.
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contradiction
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Navy saved us from war, rages Buchanan in angry response to the suggestion that Kofi Annan's diplomacy ended the Iraq crisis.
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Buchanan was happy when Kofi Annan suggested that it was diplomacy that ended the Iraq crisis.
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contradiction
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When Time asks if Jiang should make a gesture on human rights to ease relations with America, Jiang I would like to know what you refer to specifically as a gesture.
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Relations with the USA are irrelevant for Time and Jiang I.
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contradiction
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In addition, any effects of the winner's curse are offset by the fact that losing bidders become winning sellers when they re-auction products.
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Products are purchased by losing bidders in auctions.
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contradiction
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COKIE [ Nice try, slick ] : Handguns.
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All the handguns require two hands to be fired
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contradiction
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But who window shops anymore, except at 35 mph, through a window set in the frame of a vehicle?
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People never window shop in their vehicle.
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contradiction
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(He quotes himself in his books, the sure sign of a towering ego.)
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Authors' egos are low when they quote themselves.
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contradiction
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If they want to support me in the objectives I have outlined, that's fine, but I don't take positions or make votes in response to offers of contributions.
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He was recognized by individuals for his uncompromising stance against being controlled by contributions.
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neutral
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Had Apple allowed Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, perhaps even IBM to build hardware running the Mac OS, it might very well have seen its software become the industry standard.
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Apple gave permission to a few companies, such as IBM and HP, to produce hardware running their operating system.
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contradiction
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3. But the victory feels pretty hollow.
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They felt no reason to celebrate the victory, which left only a feeling of emptiness.
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entailment
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Neither Simon nor Lyons likes Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work ( Steward is one of five dramas about his own kinfolk), however.
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Both Simon and Lyons often ignored talking about or acknowledging the works of Sebastian Barry whenever they were brought up during conversations.
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neutral
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Investigators are examining whether mobsters diverted funds--including foreign aid--out of the country through an offshore network built by a former International Monetary Fund official.
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Investigators have been investigating the involvement of the mob and a former IMF official for years.
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neutral
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, Goodwin) argue that Roosevelt spawned the civil rights and feminist movements by putting everyone to work regardless of race or gender.
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Roosevelt strongly believed in the equality of all people.
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neutral
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It recounts the misdeeds of Phantomd, a teen-age cracker who infiltrated computers at nuclear-weapons labs, military bases, banks, dams, and major corporations before he was caught.
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Phantomd’s crimes went unnoticed forever.
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contradiction
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Critics have savaged her fraudulent persona and monomaniacal perfectionism for a long time.
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Critics feel she is a very genuine person.
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contradiction
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My publishers will kill me if I don't mention my own biography of D.P.
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Not mentioning my own work will lead to negative consequences.
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entailment
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But that wacky theory aside, the point for Lemann's book is He brilliantly shows how the Protestant Establishment gave way to the educated elite.
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The book details a bizarre theory on the fall of the Protestant Establishment.
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neutral
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A 1990 study found that 28 percent of children diagnosed with the disorder didn't actually meet the definition.
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A significant portion of those children diagnosed did not actually fit into the requirements.
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entailment
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On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love).
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The band always plays original music.
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contradiction
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Bending over backward to show how sensitive they can be, they forget that violence--even if it's just emotional violence--belongs in ordinary dramas, too.
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No violence in ordinary drams is wrong.
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neutral
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Even if Martin had failed to deny Maxwell a conquest that evening, and thus failed to slow the epidemic, he could at least have made someone happy.
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Martin is less effective than Maxwell in bargaining
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neutral
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Back then, gold was $35 per ounce.
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Now, gold is worth more than $35 per ounce.
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neutral
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And Pooh belongs to America for economic reasons as well as literary ones.
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Pooh is good for America's economy.
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entailment
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Given how many lawyers must have vetted this thing, it's probably an achievement that Mann got as much as he did on the screen.
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A single lawyer was appointed to check this thing
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contradiction
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Loyal visitors probably already know the URL or have it bookmarked in their Web browsers.
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Loyal visitors have to guess the URL as it changes daily.
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contradiction
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You love it up here, don't you?
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You love it over there more than you do up here.
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neutral
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Since top athletes inevitably are drawn from the healthiest sector of the population, a generally superior system of health care means a bigger pool of people to draw from.
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More top athletes will be generated from a better health care system.
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entailment
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They could learn something--not much, perhaps, but something--from the lively, nasty online discussions they're missing.
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They enjoy learning a little bit from nasty online discussions,
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neutral
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The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point.
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The Clintons made up a healthcare plan.
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entailment
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promises one month of free e-mail support.
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Assistance through a toll-free telephone number will be available for ninety days without cost.
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neutral
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We have to try to do something about the real world in which children are growing up.
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Everything is going well and nothing needs to be done about the real world in which the children are growing up.
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contradiction
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I'd be smoking right now if it weren't for the part about the hideous respiratory illness and coughing away my life in a painful and protracted demise.
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They are completely healthy.
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contradiction
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Part uplift for black kids, part thrilling feats of circus daring, it's family programming that can appeal to adults of all races.
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The TV program makes fun of adults of all races.
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contradiction
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In effect, Nixon's misdeeds () so dwarf Clinton's--even the most severe charges of suborning perjury--that Republicans could wind up bollixed.
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Clinton's wrong doings were far worse than Nixon's wrong doings.
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contradiction
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Ianni writes, Johnson essentially worked as a middleman for the Italian syndicate.
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Johnson wrote aboot Ianni and Italy.
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contradiction
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In other words, what yadda yadda yadda can convey is something You and I know all the points that would ordinarily be inserted at this place in the conversation, so let's just skip it and move on.
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The conversation is an uncomfortable one.
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neutral
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I'm no economist, but I believe this is the point President Clinton intends to make in Tokyo tomorrow.
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President Clinton will go to Tokyo.
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entailment
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Prudie, too, has lived through this a few times.
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Prudie has experienced these conditions a few times in their life.
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entailment
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Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier.
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Investment banks offer a limited amount of financial instruments, and hedging has become much more difficult.
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contradiction
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Like Mark Twain, who said that suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever do in this life, we imagine that the elderly and the ill desire death rationally.
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More young people think of suicide than old people.
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neutral
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In short, the place made Bosch look like a Methodist picnic.
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The place could be compared to a Methodist picnic.
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entailment
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The language is lackluster, the pacing leaden, the cliches plentiful, and the surprises few--no, not the campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses (Well, yes, but I'm thinking of something else here.)
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The campaign speeches for the Iowa caucuses were seen as wonderful.
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contradiction
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Challenged by the Human Rights Campaign's Elizabeth Birch in the letters column of the Dec. 8 Standard , Bennett, remarkably, dug in to defend the Cameron numbers, which he said coincided with the views of other authorities such as psychiatrist . Satinover's 1996 book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth , does discuss gay life spans, but cites as its authority ...
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Cameron was defended by Bennett.
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entailment
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Heston has even had moderate instincts about gun rights.
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Heston had to read a lot to form his opinion about gun rights
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neutral
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How could an economist of Greenspan's sophistication fumble such important questions in such an unsophisticated manner?
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An economist that was as tactful as Alan Greenspan mishandled an important question.
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entailment
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The superficial The even split of many of his assets vindicates her argument and bodes well for corporate wives.
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Corporate wives who have problems with their husbands can obtain half of their assets
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entailment
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When I interviewed Klein for my piece about the Microsoft case, he singled out Brian Arthur as the economist who has most influenced his thinking about the way in which high-technology markets operate.
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I wrote an article about high tech and ignored Microsoft.
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contradiction
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Even if you handle it right, you still don't want this kind of thing out there, argued Susan Estrich on Fox News Sunday . There's some people who only hear a piece of it and say to themselves, is something wrong with John McCain?
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Those who see just part of it are liable to think the politician has a problem.
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entailment
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The spot is aimed at the woman, the secondary consumer of condoms, reminding her that an alternative to no is wait a minute, followed by a quick dip into her nightstand drawer for a rubber.
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The female mammals were pleased by this spot
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neutral
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News junked copies of its original edition to put out the Kennedy special.)
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The Kennedy speech was put in the news.
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entailment
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When high-status males leave their wives for a younger model, you can stigmatize them, damaging their social, and even professional, standing.
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It is possible to ruin the social standing of a high-status man who leaves his wife for a younger woman.
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entailment
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He's calling all hands on deck.
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He is riding in a car.
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contradiction
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Because CNN executives crash so frequently, CNN devotes round-the-clock coverage to wait, that doesn't quite follow.
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CNN's executives decided to commit more effort in how their company covers news.
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neutral
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There is little doubt about the pro-choice media's unquestioning acceptance of the faulty pro-choice statistics.
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The Pro-choice media is willing to except stats that support their claim, even if they're incorrect.
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entailment
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In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness.
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Prusiner's prize is not well received by the community.
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neutral
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It's not what management theorist Tom Peters sees as the company of the future, a floating network/crap game.
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Tom Peters sees a floating network/crap game as the company of the future.
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entailment
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Didion, in other words, has written a fast-paced story, not just her usual series of fractured stories.
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Didion tried to write a fast-paced story but failed.
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contradiction
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The contributors repeat this figure as though it had talismanic power.
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The number being recited was important to the outcome.
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neutral
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California Institute of Technology vaults from fourth to first in the magazine's annual university rankings . Its three-to-one student-faculty ratio is much praised, as is its annual spending of $192,000 on each student.
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California Institute of Technology saw their ranking fall very far in the magazine's annual university rankings
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contradiction
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The fully cynical The joke is on us, because the building faithfully reflects Reagan's continuation of big government, despite his rhetoric.
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Reagan probably thought he was not choosing big government.
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neutral
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I don't know, but I'll bet Joan Didion does.
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Joan Didion knows the answer for sure
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contradiction
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Were they in there?
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The author is questioning about a group's location.
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entailment
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(She'll need the dough to cover her legal expenses--see The Nation , below.)
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She likely doesn't have much money.
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entailment
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This is a tricky territory for parents who enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics.
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Parents can enjoy sex and drugs and liberal politics.
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entailment
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But given the global supply glut--the U.S. government seized about a ton of heroin in 1995, compared with worldwide heroin production of 400 tons--many experts question whether interdiction has any effect on street prices.
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Only one ton out of 400 tons of heroin produced in 1995 was seized by the US.
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entailment
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Holly Brubach, who succeeded Fraser at The New Yorker , kept the standard high during her time there.
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Holly Brubach was fired from the New Yorker.
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contradiction
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But if smoking is addictive, then it makes sense to try to keep tobacco out of the hands of kids who are too young to take the warnings seriously.
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Kids don't take the warnings seriously and smoke often.
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neutral
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By the 1820s and '30s, most states were allowing all white men to vote (before that, they had to own land), and President Andrew Jackson was leading his famous war on the national bank.
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In the 1830s, many white men who did not own land could vote.
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entailment
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Twenty-five years ago, Pennsylvania pinball machines displayed this for entertainment purposes only.
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Pinball machines have been around in the U.S. for over two decades.
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entailment
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variety at the stand-ups, and pleasant trifles at the washstands.
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Pleasant trifles at the stand-ups and variety at the washstands.
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contradiction
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It might not have the scope of The Godfather or The Godfather Part II , yet among all the gangster pictures since Coppola's epic, it has no peer.
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Only the Godfather movies are better than this.
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neutral
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