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Time explains why the anti-sweatshop movement is growing on college The AFL-CIO has jump-started the protests by lavishing student activists with internships and trips to countries with poor working conditions.
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All college students going on internships and trips to countries with poor working conditions are younger than 30.
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neutral
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Shortages and slipping wages sparked street protests this winter that forced the ruling socialists to hand power over to a caretaker government.
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The socialists showed little issues with the protests and were without need of help.
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contradiction
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It sparked a vigorous debate about morality, introduced role models who defied stereotypes (powerful attorneys in wheelchairs, patrician female lawmakers), and demonstrated that the political process is sturdy and forgiving.
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Lawyers in wheelchairs and female lawmakers were not common at the time.
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entailment
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Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Neukom added, We've always competed fairly, and we will continue to do that.
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Bill Neukom is telling the truth on competing fairly.
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neutral
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The WP reports on last Saturday night's Gridiron Dinner, that annual Washington D.C. court masque in which bigfoot journalists entertain the government's heaviest hitters and vice-versa.
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Washington D.C. court masque happens once a year.
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entailment
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Its findings have armed Francis Collins in his crusade against genetic redlining.
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New data has come out to support Collins against genetic redlining.
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neutral
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Don't take my word for it.
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he did take my word for it.
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neutral
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Reading this book helped me see that I am a minimal realist.
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I learned I am a minimal realist from this book.
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entailment
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It's bread and circuses without the bread.
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The circus can't go on without the bread.
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neutral
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He feels liberated but looks like a man hugging a slot machine.
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The man looks like he is hugging a video poker machine.
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contradiction
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Indeed, many small and furry animals tend to be funny and, if you squint, resemble genitalia taken disturbingly out of context and scampering about the place.
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The author thinks most animals tend to be funny.
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entailment
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He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years.
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His thoughts kept being actual
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neutral
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The reader is led to despise one character because of his bad taste in neckties, but not to hold racism and homophobia against another.
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Homophobia and racism are not to be applied when judging character.
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entailment
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Where they'll go is wherever as many people as possible will hear them.
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They will go where they will be heard.
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entailment
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(Click here for a summary of the experiment.)
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The summary is only a page long.
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neutral
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For with the proliferation of shifting public signage, slogans, logos, and the lava flow of printout, the words on your clothes are now what certify your physical existence.
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Writing on your clothes confirm your physical being.
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entailment
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Someone asks the CNN guy, How are the ratings these days?
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The CNN guy was asked about the weather tomorrrow.
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contradiction
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But a few chapters later, Ann overhears her mother talking on the phone to Dr. Spritzer, and
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Ann was eavesdropping on her mom talking on the phone with a doctor.
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entailment
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That led him to the not-very-civil act of complaining to Bob Haldeman.
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Haldeman was the person complained to.
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entailment
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Until recently, I enjoyed the confusion.
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They hated the confusion.
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contradiction
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Rumor has it that the next object of touchy-feely bowdlerization by Disney is Beowulf.
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Rumors are spreading of Disney producing a child-friendly remake of Beowulf.
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entailment
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Since then, there's been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge to the 21 st century.
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Tollbooths still exist in other places.
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neutral
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Romantics will warm to further Enquirer disclosures.
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The Enquirer will continue its disclosures for a long time.
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neutral
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The intervention could be stopped by a block of isolationist senators and House members.
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To stop the intervention, at least 1/5 of the members must oppose it.
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neutral
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Almost nothing is going to happen if a majority must already favor it before any political leader will speak out in its favor.
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Political leaders often wait for the majority to express opinions.
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entailment
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John McLaughlin dedicates the final minutes of his show to the proposition that contemporary American culture sneers at Men are regarded as inseminating instruments, superfluous after that.
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Perhaps women like Men as inseminating instruments.
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neutral
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Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written.
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Laureate Andrew Motion really liked Bob Dylan's songs more than any others.
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neutral
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The film gives the impression that Flynt has none, although he has five--to the best of his knowledge.
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It is implied that Flynt has three of them.
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contradiction
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Dutch World, where all sorts of fictional characters created by Edmund Morris come out to play with children of all ages!
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The characters of Dutch World were created by Alfred Hitchcock.
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contradiction
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Look, I paid 20 bucks for this rag, and I want all of it.
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The rag was definitely worth the money.
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neutral
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The old western was almost always a tale of a courageous loner imposing order on lawlessness, as in the Wayne films and Shane (1953).
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The old western was more appreciated than many of today's genres
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neutral
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The already-outdated cover story wonders if NATO's deal with Yugoslavia will hold.
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The cover story is very old.
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entailment
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As one agent A parolee of mine is OK and is looking for a job.
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A parolee is looking for a job.
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entailment
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Are we backing the Kosovo Liberation Army?
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The Kosovo Liberation army has a valid stance.
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neutral
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The relaxation of prohibitionist laws has brought them within easy reach of most of the American public, and the public has voted for them with its feet.
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Despite the loosening of prohibitionist restrictions, the American public seems uninterested.
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contradiction
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Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.
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The female subject presents a realer perspective of work place discrimination than a typical male protagonist.
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entailment
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But it was only Eisner's recognition that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish that made those decisions so obvious.
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Eisner understood that a brand must be modernized to succeed.
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entailment
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Perhaps Internet users are more depressed because they are better informed.
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People who use the internet are found to be happy every single day.
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contradiction
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So the Bill Clinton paradox--his reckless pursuit of sex and his timid clinging to office--is indeed no paradox.
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Bill Clinton was invovled with many women sexually throughout his entire presidential term.
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neutral
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Hong Kongers are increasingly restless about Chinese rule.
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People from Hong Kong will begin to rise against Chinese rule.
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neutral
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It was simply to say the industry is prepared to make revolutionary changes in its behavior if it gets some protection from these giant suits, and this is a good deal for the public.
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The public would benefit from changes in the industry
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entailment
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It is enough that tragedy once again punished the Kennedys, wrote Cohen.
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The Kennedys suffered through at least ten tragedies in their history.
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neutral
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My kids after they graduate.
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My youngest son is a freshman in high school.
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neutral
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The winner's curse also doesn't apply when there are many identical items being auctioned off.
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A winner's choice always applies to many identical items being auctioned.
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contradiction
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It's redeploying assets to boost the stock price.
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Moving wealth can increase the valuation of the shares.
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entailment
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Words are now rarely carved in stone
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Words carved in stone have no merit now days.
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neutral
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The idea that Italy and Greece object to ground troops and therefore we shouldn't do what is necessary to win this war, is, in my view, ridiculous, protested Bill Kristol on This Week . But what's the definition of winning?
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Italy and Greece will use ground troops and whatever is necessary to win a war.
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contradiction
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Do they have an open marriage in which his extracurricular activity is accepted, or is each new revelation a painful surprise to her?
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The couple is unhappy with their open marriage.
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neutral
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Last week Israel also ordered the PA to arrest one of its high-ranking police officers for planning an attack on a Jewish settlement.
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Israel ignores the PA and their police officers.
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contradiction
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Another dicey issue confronting Treasury Department enforcement officials is Internet gambling . Although federal law prohibits gambling by wire in the United States, and most authorities interpret that to mean that Internet gambling is illegal here, at least one online casino, Casino Royale, looks and feels like a virtual gambling emporium.
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The Treasury Department is doing a great job of managing the laws.
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neutral
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It would be shorter once you got the hang of it.
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It might take many hours of work to perfect the craft.
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neutral
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Is that wrong?
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Someone isn't sure if that is wrong.
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entailment
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Prudie, too, has lived through this a few times.
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This was Prudies' first time living through this.
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contradiction
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It is not my intention to give anti-Semitism any support whatever, wrote Marc Dem, as he argued that Jews were from outer space.
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Marc Dem asserts that Jews are aliens.
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entailment
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Similarly, the idea that Native American babies, or black babies, or whatever, have some mystical genetic affinity with their own kind is silly.
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Someone thinks that babies have a magic affinity with their own kind
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entailment
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In the future, I'll try to be, if not more discerning, at least more cunning about concealing my limitations--you know, like Johnny Cash in that movie where he cudn't reed gud.
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I'll try to keep my limitations more under wraps.
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entailment
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In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one.
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M&A doesn’t understand how long it will take to make two companies.
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entailment
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How does the high-minded dismissal work?
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Regarding the dismissal, how does the high-minded operate?
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entailment
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6) The pact will promote fiscal irresponsibility by reducing stern German domination of European fiscal policy.
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The Germans have a strict domination over the European fiscal policies.
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entailment
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If you haven't filled it out yet, click here for the survey.
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The survey will only be available for two days.
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neutral
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(I would bet that every survey of teens taken since Cain and Abel found that they named parents as their favorite role models.)
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Most kids say that their parents are their role model.
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entailment
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An article explores McDonald's niche offerings.
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The unknown menu items are only known to the writers of the story.
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neutral
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, that Bush showed indifference to the Pakistani coup and ignorance of the region's nuclear importance) with a lighthearted recitation of the leaders of obscure countries, Gore is sugarcoating his indictment of Bush so that listeners will laugh, swallow, and absorb it.
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Bush was certain to press Pakistan on the issue of it's coup, as he sought to give Gore little ammunition with which to attack him with.
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contradiction
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When you press down on top of the pump, two separate substances emerge from two separate and concealed tanks.
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Two substances were oil and water that were concealed in the tanks.
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neutral
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Instead, the cost of computer gear is falling precipitously, and affordable bandwidth--the measure of data transmission--is growing at an exponential rate.
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The price of bandwidth and computer gear is skyrocketing.
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contradiction
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No; it is not possible you should love the enemy of France, but, in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it; I will have it all and, Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France and you are mine.
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She fell in love with him and the country.
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neutral
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But any hope that Democrats can capitalize on Starr's non-North performance dissolves immediately after lunch, when Democratic committee counsel Abbe Lowell questions Starr.
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Abbe Lowell refused to serve on the Democratic committee.
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contradiction
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But the value of Japanese manufacturing practices was, if anything, understated.
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Non-Japanese firms looked towards Japanese manufacturing as a model.
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neutral
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that's odd.
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That seems strange.
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entailment
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But 49ers fans will always love Joe Montana more.
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Joe Montana is very loved.
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entailment
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John points out that by 1828, only 36 years after Congress passed the Post Office Act of 1792, the American postal system had almost twice as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain and over five times as many offices as the postal system in France.
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In the 90s, the American postal system closed many offices.
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neutral
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The populist, by contrast, panders to his audience, figuring out what it likes and then delivering it in heaps.
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The audience likes this type of feedback.
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neutral
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I find the paper by the critics more than extremely unfair.
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I disagree with the critics on every issue.
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neutral
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President Clinton met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington.
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The meeting came following another attack by Hamas.
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neutral
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Critics also suggested that, with their salaries and stock wrapped up in the same company, employees were putting too many eggs in one basket.
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Critics suggest employees quit their jobs.
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neutral
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Journalists, after all, expose these practices--we do not commit them.
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Journalists offer the information, though the ideas are not their own.
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entailment
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It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion.
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Kinsey has lost all of their interest towards human sexuality in this time, without cause for such a thing.
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contradiction
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Patents can even be held on the genetic blueprints of various forms of life.
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Many hold a patent on the genetic blueprints of various forms of life.
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neutral
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Once you exclude fringe elements on both sides--Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan, basically--both Democrats and Republicans accept the reality of NAFTA and the WTO even as they argue about whether these bodies should include environmental and labor laws, a la the EU.
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Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan both accept the conditions of NAFTA and the WHO.
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entailment
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Walcott's faith, as expressed in The Bounty, is finally a painter's faith, that the poet's job is to write of the light's bounty on familiar things.
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The Bounty conveys that Walcott's faith can ultimately be likened to that of a painter.
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entailment
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For such people, he said, the Pope becomes persona non grata when he tries to convince the world of human sin.
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The Pope sometimes tries to persuade the world of human sins when certain people are unwelcomed.
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neutral
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Yankees, Cubs vs.
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The Yankees beat the Cubs.
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neutral
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Since then, there's been no mention of tollbooths on the bridge to the 21 st century.
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People still use payphones on a bridge in the current decade.
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contradiction
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Dissatisfied with the chump change earned by selling untaxed cigarettes and fireworks, the Indians have opened gambling casinos on reservations all over the state.
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Reservations all over the state opened casinos.
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entailment
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The High-Minded Dismissal.
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The High-Minded are to be dismissed.
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entailment
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As in their Ed Wood (1994) and The People vs.
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A judge had to hear out the case of Ed Wood vs New York.
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contradiction
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For Pundit Completists David Brock profiles Meet the Press host Tim Russert and surveys the competitive world of the pundit shows in this week's New York magazine.
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Tim Russert was the subject of the magazine article.
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entailment
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Is Clinton saying he didn't commit perjury because of the peculiar definition of sex in the Paula Jones suit, or is he saying he actually didn't have sex?
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The author questions Clinton based on his cherry-picking of the definition of sex in the Paula Jones suit.
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entailment
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Christopher is precisely the sort of mobster who turns government witness at the thought of real jail time.
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Christopher thinks spending time in jail would be a holiday and a nice break from his responsibilities.
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contradiction
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A Palestinian state is a certainty, according to an article, but sovereignty will be a sham.
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The article also believes the state won't be officially recognized by the majority of nations.
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neutral
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In a 1970 study, teen-age boys were asked their preferences among paintings by two foreign painters.
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A study that took place 5 decades ago about painters asked teenage boys which one they liked the best.
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entailment
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For those who look into the future and are concerned, there are some fundamental What can be done?
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No one ever looks to the future.
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contradiction
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There was a deeper The new ideas were immensely liberating, but at some point you can get too liberated.
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The ideas were new and liberating.
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entailment
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Needless to say, one such entry would be unacceptable, and we've adopted strict safeguards to prevent any such problems.
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Safeguards have been taken to prevent problems with entries.
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entailment
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(It's not housebroken, and it's full-grown.)
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It will urinate inside the house.
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neutral
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But to this woman you are not replaceable at any price.
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This woman can be replaced very cheaply.
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contradiction
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Pennebaker made about Dylan's previous European tour in 1965, Eat the Document , which was edited by Dylan himself, is a pointless coda.
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Bob Dylan and Pennebaker hated each other.
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contradiction
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I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself.
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There is no evidence that I have ever used it.
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entailment
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Am I supposed to look at the ceiling the entire meeting, steal the occasional glance, or just assume it's a '90s thing?
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The meeting lasted for a little over an hour.
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neutral
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In a way, I think it has already helped Microsoft's image.
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My opinion of Microsoft was improved by it.
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entailment
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