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We may have lumped several different diseases together in describing the syndrome.
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They used one disease to describe the syndrome.
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contradiction
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You have definitely identified a problem for the '90s.
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A problem has been shown.
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entailment
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During the farewell tour of his legislative district, Paxon indicated the depth of his enthusiasm in raising Suby when he let Molinari change the diaper as their plane touched down in Buffalo, N.Y.
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Molinari changed Suby's diaper with enthusiasm.
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neutral
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To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper.
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I want to help the larger enterprise and need media references samples other than those written on paper.
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entailment
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Maybe even Al Gore will soon exalt with a broad smile the vibrant U.S. ecology.
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The U.S ecology has seen great improvements in recent years.
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neutral
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Mostly I just skim the retractions), and himself (I am so sorry ...
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The author has some regret for theirself.
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neutral
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Praising President Clinton for his federal transportation law to upgrade U.S. highways, the paper said that without a similar effort on our part, American superhighway traffic will come grinding to a halt at the Canadian border.
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Canadian funding has already been secured.
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contradiction
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There are many things that are permitted to adults--e.g.
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A number of these things are prohibited to minors.
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neutral
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Also, check out this illustrated, in-depth exploration of Beck's fashion choices.)
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The investigation of Beck's fashion is accompanied by visuals.
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entailment
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In the 1980s, Kodak opened a major research center in Tokyo, staffed with Japanese engineers, and started a joint venture in which Canon made copiers sold under the Kodak name.
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The canon copiers made in Japan in the 1980's were a big success.
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neutral
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What's more, the latter reads more like it slugs a story about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists.
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The way they depicted stylists made them seem boring.
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neutral
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Even Graham's earliest confessions of incompetence are refuted by her father's transparent scheme to groom her for some top slot at the Post . After she graduates from the University of Chicago, he arranges a job for her as a reporter at the San Francisco News , and afterward hires her as a Post editorial writer.
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Graham became the editor at the New York Times with the help of her mom.
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contradiction
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The report also cites China's transparent intentions to abolish Hong Kong's civil liberties when it assumes control of the territory in July.
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Hong Kong will fight to keep their civil liberties.
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neutral
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These people are so power-hungry and so shameless they'll do anything to win, Dole said at a rally in Glendale, Calif., the day after the debate (before leading the audience in the It's Our Money, It's Our Money, It's Our Money).
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The man spoke at a rally in Glendale, California to a huge crowd.
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neutral
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Goodman's explanations of Jewish ritual sometimes veer from the helpful to the condescendingly overexplicit, as if she were writing for young adults.
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Goodman's explanations of Jewish rites, seem as though she's writing to young adults at times.
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entailment
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(Thank you.)
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I am grateful to you.
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entailment
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The assumption is that private investors who buy and sell won are depressing its value below its equilibrium rate.
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Private investigators are increasing its value above its equilibrium rate.
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contradiction
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Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords.
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The deaths of people in the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar were in vain.
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contradiction
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So Edgar Jr. will fail in Hollywood, but when he does, it won't be the failure of a romantic.
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Edgar Jr. will be a great success in Hollywood, and this will be because he abandoned the old ways of a romantic.
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contradiction
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Ultimately, what I say in my defense is completely meaningless.
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What the author says during his defense will be meaningless to other people.
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entailment
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Andrew Young, Maynard Jackson, and the mulatto elite dismissed Lewis and lined up behind Bond.
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Lewis was removed from his position and replaced by another.
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entailment
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As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.
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Americans looked to the courts in the 1780s to check how excessive the legislators had gotten.
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entailment
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Even this distinction, though, is changing with the development of off-line software that automatically goes to the Web to retrieve material, and stores it on your own computer.
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With the newer software, you must manually instruct it to retrieve information from the internet.
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contradiction
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It would take only one-tenth of one second to download a Slate article via ADSL.
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Their are even faster methods than ADSL.
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neutral
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He's a freakish Peter Pan--the juvenile delinquent who wouldn't grow up.
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Like like Benjamin Buttons, young looking but old at heart.
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contradiction
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It's not our job to police the whole world , says the realist.
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The realist has no problem with other countries policing the world as they see fit
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neutral
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This threatens to become a modern version of the McCarran-Walter Act, which was used during the Cold War to exclude lefty writers and intellectuals.
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Something similar to the Cold War era McCarran-Walter Act could come from this.
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entailment
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Government lawyers might not lie about the facts, says Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies.
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It's still possible for the lawyers to spin the facts occasionally.
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neutral
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Little Herring ? What the hell kind of moniker is that?
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She has not met different kinds of people in her life.
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neutral
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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 avoiding to talk about something we're giving it the utmost relevance
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contradiction
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The WSJ has these Monica 1) Vernon Jordan isn't part of the joint defense agreement entered into by many other grand-jury witnesses with White House ties.
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Vernon Jordan is a famous basketball player who played for Chicago in the 80ies.
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contradiction
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But lately he has taken to cruising college campuses in his Miata, looking for recruits.
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He decided against looking for recruits on college campuses because there was too much traffic to drive through.
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contradiction
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It is simple, dog-like gratitude for a reason to declare the presidential race more interesting.
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Declaring the Senate Race more interesting is dog like gratitude.
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neutral
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He makes TV commercials in London.
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London is the location where he produces advertisments for television.
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entailment
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The cover story protests the Fed's failure to hike interest rates despite early signs of inflation.
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The Fed's did not raise interest rates.
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entailment
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In recent months, Chinese corporations have taken stakes in Hong Kong Telecom, Dragon Air, and China Light & Power.
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Hong Kong corporations are being bought out by Europe.
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contradiction
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He can tell her of something bad that has happened without fearing that she will think he is complaining.
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She will not think he is grumbling after he tells her something bad has happened.
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entailment
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They cite AFL-CIO officials who claim the organization spent $35 million on a radio-and-television ad campaign alone.
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According to officials, the ad campaign cost the organization $35 million.
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entailment
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It takes a man to stand.
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A man will refuse to stand on his feet.
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contradiction
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But these vouchers can't be the kind conservatives prefer, which are sharply limited in value so as to forestall real integration while directing tenants toward private-sector slums.
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The vouchers have great value.
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contradiction
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Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it.
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Congress equalized things by nationalizing the payment scheme.
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entailment
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Evans & Novak took a holiday, too, with an inconsequential visit from guest Art Buchwald.
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Evans and Novak spent their holiday in hermetic privacy.
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contradiction
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, and appeared here in 1977.
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As reported by the New York Times, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the 39th President.
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entailment
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You think black studies has achieved middlebrow status.
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Black studies achieved middlebrow status last decade.
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neutral
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(After all, Scheck earns a pittance compared with what he could if he were a full-time criminal defense attorney.)
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Scheck does not have any kind of work.
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contradiction
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Given this prospect, the country should save heavily to make provision for the future--and lacking the kind of pay-as-you-go Social Security system that allows Americans to ignore such realities, it does.
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Americans pay alot of attention to Social Security and their retirement.
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contradiction
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Nor does he believe in military conscription in wartime ([t]he libertarian believes that people will voluntarily defend a country worth defending).
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A few citizens believe we should still reinstate the draft.
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neutral
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Reed takes his place in 2002.
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Reed took his place in 1992.
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contradiction
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The tensions between, say, competition and compassion, or efficiency and equity, which blighted politics for so long, are sterile quarrels of yesteryear.
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Politics is now being blighted by tensions between different beliefs.
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neutral
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Editorialists lamented that Carey's campaign against union corruption now bears the taint of union corruption.
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Carey's campaign has been corrupted by the union.
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entailment
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The breakup of the U.S.S.R. shattered the army into 15 pieces, as Russia lost nukes, ships, bases, and many of its best officers to newly independent republics.
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A few nations took advantage of the breakup to improve their strategic positions.
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neutral
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The other example is Chaconne , starring Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins.
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Chaconne was bashed in media for featuring only males.
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contradiction
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This bold guess about the solutions to a certain complex-valued infinite series (made by the incomparable Bernhard Riemann in 1859) would, if true, have far-reaching implications for the structure of the most basic of entities, the natural numbers.
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Bernhard Riemann finished pointless work in 1906.
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contradiction
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He says she gave him the confidence to be an actor, and he ended up helping to support her at the end of her life.
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She ended up dying from kidney disease.
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neutral
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Likewise, if the presidency is worth $50 million and there are many potential candidates with essentially identical chances of winning, they'll keep entering the race until they've collectively spent at least $50 million.
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The presidency's value will often be eclipsed by the candidates' expenses.
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neutral
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Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.
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Incomplete works are usually more liked than finished works.
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neutral
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Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.
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Wolff's ideas are hackneyed.
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entailment
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Even in the suburbs, where dogs run free, no poodle comes home with a hammer and sickle spray-painted on his side.
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Dogs are not spray-painted or abused in the suburbs.
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entailment
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The private quarters, a k a the residence, occupy the second and third floors of the White House.
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Anyone could visit any room of the White House
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contradiction
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To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression?
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The Great Depression happened decades before the Dust Bowl.
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contradiction
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Paul shrinks from this view.
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This view never makes Paul look away.
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contradiction
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Not all the way--he has not yet succeeded in building a durable majority on the court.
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He has yet to build a durable majority on the court.
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entailment
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In one way, though, it is more exact.
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This option is more precise.
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entailment
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By contrast, Mundell's writings since the early '70s have been discursive, one might almost say rambling, and often reveal a sort of hankering for the lost certainties of the gold standard.
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Mundell's writings are thought by most to be clear and easy to follow.
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contradiction
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That, of course, is precisely why Java has become such fertile ground for cyberevangelism.
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You will only find cyberevangelism in Java.
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neutral
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On the other hand, the President's Box at Ford's Theatre contains the chair in which Lincoln was sitting when Booth shot him, and no one would argue that Ford's is anything but a replica.
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Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre.
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entailment
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In a poll of 773 chief executives in 23 countries, consultants Watson Wyatt Worldwide found that most think productivity peaks around age 43.
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Most chief executives agree productivity peaks in the 40s.
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entailment
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Larry then goes astray in my view when he writes, Threats to liberty change.
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Larry says threats to liberty are stable.
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contradiction
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will be more accurate than jurors who are unsure about only one criterion (does my doubt exceed 5 percent?)
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Jurors focused on one criterion are the most accurate.
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contradiction
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The production of services also roughly doubled--but there was little productivity improvement, and employment grew by 90 percent.
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Employment decreased by 60 percent.
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contradiction
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At the first, Brock, under the guise of fairness, slings enough mud to drown a Bangladeshi village.
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Brock excoriates others and calls it fairness
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entailment
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Flustered but suffused with good-natured liberal heartiness, Levy initiates a series of father-son talks that are among the most excruciating ever filmed.
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Levy was talking to his daughter in the film.
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contradiction
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The most ordinary features are, aesthetically, the most extraordinary.
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The features are most alluring
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entailment
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Ironically, there's a certain Blame America First quality to their argument.
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Italy was to be blamed first with this argument
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contradiction
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The admonition, You become what you behold, has yielded to You become what you belittle.
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This has changed for the better.
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neutral
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In this light the meaning of his call to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics seems separate but equal.
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His call was to keep politics unequal.
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contradiction
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That is, we're paralyzed by the repeated idea that his election is inevitable.
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Thinking about him winning again has given us nightmares.
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neutral
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But it remains exceedingly hard to watch, not so much because of the repulsiveness of De Niro's Jake La Motta as because of its overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia.
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The overall sense of aesthetic claustrophobia is easy to stomach.
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contradiction
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Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.
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A mammary cell is highly specialized.
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entailment
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When you like somebody, you tend to trust him.
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If you like someone, it's impossible to trust them.
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contradiction
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lowest-ranked playoff team in their division ever to accomplish this feat.
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They made the playoffs despite having a losing record.
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neutral
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Cheap oral hydration, for example, has been studied and used to treat dehydration for diarrheal illness in developing countries.
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Second world nations are suffering from the runs.
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neutral
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If he was sometimes a naive political activist, Spock was always a resourceful pragmatist when it came to child rearing wisdom.
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Spock wasn't involved with politics in anyway.
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contradiction
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But if the answer is no--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations.
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There is nothing wrong morally with destroying our planet if the answer happens to be "no."
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entailment
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His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
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Lewinsky's Vanity Fair photo gave him a bad image.
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entailment
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What Bradley needed was a policy expert who could block Brazile's cheap shot.
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Brazile's cheap shot was a concern to Bradley.
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entailment
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It is beyond me to chart the future byways of the digital revolution, but I'll venture one counterintuitive Electronic media will usher in a resurgence in the quality and value in handwriting.
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There are lots of people who think their is a problem with the lack of others not appreciating handwritting.
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neutral
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But they are a huge hassle and costly--nearly $1,000 a year.
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They cost over 990 dollars a year.
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neutral
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Do you know the saying, We're all grown-ups here?
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Are you aware of the saying that we are all adults here?
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entailment
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I can confirm he does, for I have tried to convey the same Ionian Enchantment in my recent book How the Mind Works.
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He thinks the same as the author of How the Mind Works about Ionian Enchantment.
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entailment
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Clinton has no such out.
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Clinton said no to the last chance.
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neutral
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The site is actually no longer at the address that Direct Hit found to be most visited (a common problem with search engines).
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The author doesn't believe in Direct Hit's credibility as a whole.
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neutral
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'Cause, like, I want a Miata.
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I hate cars and would much rather bike to places anyway for the exercise.
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contradiction
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Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors.
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The World Cup soccer players had all female predecessors.
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contradiction
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But when Indonesians started running from their banks a few months ago, what they wanted was dollars--and neither the Indonesian government nor the IMF can give them enough of what they want.
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Indonesians wanted dollars that the IMF couldn't provide enough of.
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entailment
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Surprising Mark Rothko and Alexander Calder.
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Nothing took Mark Rothko and Alexander Calder by surprise.
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contradiction
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For example, I've heard many agents complain of having to revoke the parole of guys who failed a drug test but who were not, in the agent's best judgment, doing anything more than getting high.
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People who were in prison tend to do a lot of drugs after they get out.
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neutral
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Teacher of the Year Andrew Baumgartner is the kind of educator who has delighted his kindergarten students with a wedding for Sleeping Beauty, complete with limousine and cake, teaching them, I suppose, that nothing is worthwhile unless it is entertaining.
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Andrew Baumgartner often prepares surprises for his students
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neutral
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Food irradiators do produce radioactive waste that must be stored under nuclear regulatory guidelines, but the current regulations governing hospitals and sterilization companies seem to work, and the amount of radwaste generated is far too small to cause Three Mile Island-like effects.
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The current regulations regarding hospitals and sterilization are ineffective.
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contradiction
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Maybe then you won't be too good to ride in an exploding Chevy.
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The person doesn't like to ride in a Chevy, because they prefer a non-exploding Toyota.
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neutral
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