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on going to the cinema, you would be seeing American films sold for foreign consumption, Molotov argued.
Molotov encouraged people to go to the movies, as they were produced for domestic audiences.
contradiction
Somehow I doubt that Bill Gates thinks of Dell as parasitic because its computers run only on Windows.
It was a thought that Dell was leeching from BIll Gates.
neutral
Bullets explode in shards of glass and light, bringing death in chiaroscuro.
Bullets are stopped by the glass.
contradiction
But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed.
Lang believes that there are a few hypotheses that should be confirmed without a doubt.
entailment
What's wrong with informing certain segments of the electorate that your opponent is using the feel-good rhetoric of solutions to pull a fast one at their expense?
Why is it not okay that a group of voters be told that the other guy running for office is pulling the wool over their eyes with hype that will ultimately harm them?
entailment
God, what do you think of me?
Someone knows how God feels.
contradiction
By their sheer effectiveness, the quality-of-life drugs narrow the range of what society accepts as normal.
The quality-of-life drugs are effective
entailment
Science reporting in the United States is hampered by the deep-seated conviction that the press knows even better than the people that it's just a bunch of pinheads nattering about nothing.
The press sometimes acknowledges that the people know better than them.
neutral
It's understandable why this fantasy of flight would take root in black America, which, at numerous moments in its history, has been given reason to fear that conditions in the diaspora can never be improved.
Black America used knowledge of it's history to improve upon the course of actions that it has followed.
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Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds.
The IRS is using an old computer system that fails to catch tax frauds.
entailment
On the other hand, some states have passed new laws that treat juvenile criminals as responsible adults.
The new laws have seen a reduction in crime.
neutral
Pulitzer Prizes, for example, go to books and newspapers but not to magazines.
The prize for magazines is as highly regarded as a Pulitzer.
neutral
Eszterhas' posturing He became the celebrity he'd always hoped to be--brash, appealing, larger than life.
He has fulfilled one of his aspirations.
entailment
Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.
Benigni celebrates his martyrdom subtlety.
contradiction
And, clearly, everyone knew the facts of the matter today.
It was clear everybody knew what was going on today.
entailment
It's probably therapeutic for Slate's two warriors to be taking time out from their inquiries into the House Budget or Travelgate to organize their thoughts on their place in the universe.
They take breaks every few months.
neutral
Nor has the fun we all had sneering at England's squandering its North Sea oil windfall in the '70s and '80s kept the Republican Party from proposing to give away the budget surplus to their rich constituents.
Funding rich constituents is the favorite play for Republican politicians.
neutral
Lucinda-- Write a song about Pale Fire and he's yours!
If Lucinda would write a certain song, he would be hers.
entailment
You can fault Clinton's piety and recklessness from a realistic standpoint.
Recklessness is a common thread in Clinton's behavior.
neutral
If you haven't filled it out yet, click here for the survey.
The survey is available for taking online.
entailment
To return to the discussion, my favorite response is I'm told I'm great!
Once I am out of the discussion I struggle to find a way to jump back in.
contradiction
we, like you, secretly covet recliners, purrs the card beside a 1952-style Metro Finer Recliner, priced at $990.
A 1952 style Metro Finer recliner is fairly priced at 990 dollars.
neutral
Before proceeding, write down or remember the directories where these files are found.
It's important to organize the work before proceeding
entailment
They arrived in the summer of 1996.
They were greeted with a warm welcome when they arrived.
neutral
Whenever viewers hear of the treaty again, the first thing they're likely to think of is that map--just as the phrase Clinton health plan came to trigger the picture of Harry and Louise being denied the right to choose their own doctor.
The health plan elaborated by Clinton is controversial
entailment
I know that most interns don't get a chance to know Betty Currie and don't have the many contacts that Monica Lewinsky had with the president.
All interns know Betty Currie.
contradiction
Nudity on stage can be powerful, and is still protested, but not as powerful as the frightening glimpse I had as a child of Ethel Merman in Gypsy . Now, if you could get the ghost of Ethel Merman and the undead Mickey Rooney to strip to the waist for 10 rounds of bare-knuckle action, that would be truly frightening stage violence.
I saw Gypsy when I was a kid and the nude image of Ethel Merman left a lasting impression on me.
entailment
Pennebaker made about Dylan's previous European tour in 1965, Eat the Document , which was edited by Dylan himself, is a pointless coda.
Bob Dylan often preferred to hire other musicians to edited his work.
neutral
Kasich's proposed corporate-welfare package draws together a measly $11.
To the relief of those in attendance, Kasich interjects that there is a typo.
neutral
Ryan just isn't the man she thought she married ...
She married Ryan then divorced him.
neutral
But they would get farther in their agendas if they would give a little respect to conventional marriage by letting heterosexual people keep the word marriage to themselves.
The agenda would benefit from praising the conventional marriage
entailment
The Czech expat's second novel written in French causes some reviewers to proclaim his decline.
He is not very fluent in French.
neutral
He suffered the strange fate of many artists who aim for the sublime, then find their work enlisted in other all-too-human narratives.
He suffered the same fate as many artists who aimed for the abstract.
entailment
The dehydrated food industry is booming, Time notes.
The dehydrated food industry is an unfailingly industry.
contradiction
Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies and don't cuss out their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job with guaranteed wages for life.
Federal civilian employees can cuss at their supervisors and get a warning.
neutral
It's the kind where you look for everything, you vacuum up everything that's unfavorable, use all of it, whether it's rumor, fact, innuendo, hearsay, use all it, and don't let a kind word get in the whole thing.
We're digging for every bit of dirty we can find, and use it all, nothing friendly.
entailment
But I can give two illustrations, both from ballets by George Balanchine that I have on tape.
I have ballets by George Balanchine on tape.
entailment
Now these organizations that served what we used to think of as the West and the North are opening up to the developing and democratizing nations of the East and the South.
The East and the South are serving organizations to the North and the West.
contradiction
What Murray likes about the idea is that it would finally discharge society's obligation to members of the underclass.
Murray is not a member of the underclass.
neutral
Alfred Kazin jowled that Oprah's club represents the carpet bombing of the American mind, but even a stuffed shirt like Kazin can't complain when 15 million TV watchers are urged to read Toni Morrison and do.)
Kazin equates Oprah's club to a carpet bombing of public consciousness.
entailment
The Times claimed that the number boycotting never reached a critical mass that would have threatened the integrity of its list.
The boycotters had very good reasons for their actions
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Both mags also cover hot, new drug Ginkgo biloba.
The magazines specialize in new treatments.
neutral
Whether the voters deserve it or not, we're likely to hear a lot more in coming spots about which man is better--or worse.
Plenty will be said about which candidate is best.
entailment
Your best friend/replacement matron of honor, herself, lives out of state.
The best friend did something that had her leave the state.
neutral
Confidential to You might have had a better chance of getting your money had the Globe not run a World Exclusive interview in which you're quoted disclosing titillating details about your ex's sexual fantasies and happy-hour proclivities.
You might have been given extra money had you not spoken about your ex's private life to Globe.
neutral
They would simplify background investigations and financial disclosures.
Their background checks cost significantly more than with other providers.
neutral
If content is king, Dexter reasoned, then King should be content.
Dexter believes that content is king of the world.
neutral
But, hey, where is the millennium?
No one knows where is the millennium.
neutral
Cagney's charisma launched what looks, decades later, like the most enduring film style of all.
Cagney has been on the top for years.
neutral
Christopher is precisely the sort of mobster who turns government witness at the thought of real jail time.
Christopher decides to change his ways and becomes a police officer.
neutral
Before long, however, many of these projects went bust, and Nelson had to turn to his family for financial assistance to ward off bankruptcy.
Nelson got help from his family several times.
neutral
In a market of 10,000 stocks, short-term prices will rise and fall for an infinite variety of reasons, very few of which have anything to do with a company's real productivity or value.
You can easily track the rise and fall of over 10,000 stocks.
neutral
In one famous case, Inglis helped kill federal funding for a needed highway, requiring the state to build a toll road instead.
Inglis has knowledge of infrastructures
entailment
He is a sort of vanguard, and follows her upon exiting.
Following her upon exiting, he is a vanguard sort.
entailment
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a Bush rival, Here is a fellow that went and flew airplanes and learned to be a pilot and was prepared to go, if he had to go.
Orrin Hatch's was educated to be a pilot in Utah.
neutral
You are nice to weigh in as a Prudie.
Prudie weighs in nicely.
entailment
Should he try and then fail, Beijing will conclude that it is dealing with a weak administration.
There is a huge price to pay for failing.
neutral
God how I love this country.
I truly love this country.
entailment
(It's not housebroken, and it's full-grown.)
It is a fully housebroken puppy.
contradiction
Candidates for citizenship must 1) be 18 or older; 2) have resided in the United States continuously for five years--or three years if married to a U.S. citizen--(short absences are OK); 3) demonstrate the ability to speak English, and a basic knowledge of American history and government (click here to see if you pass the test); and 4) be of good moral character.
Most applicants easily qualify for all criteria.
neutral
Bang on drums and try to get the talking stick away from a weepy Tom DeLay.
It's hard to stop Tom DeLay once you get him going.
entailment
Under my plan, sales taxes would only be not eliminated on certain socially desirable purchases, but also good shoppers would receive an anti-tax, a bonus for their beneficent purchases.
The plan introduces more sales taxes
contradiction
A few minutes later, Stephanie Trotter, a local NBC reporter, asked the candidates, Gentlemen, I'm curious.
Trotter was thorough in her line of questioning.
neutral
Pataki made this explicit at the bill's Albany signing History teaches us that the Great Hunger was not the result of a massive Irish crop failure, but rather a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the Irish people the food they needed to survive.
Pataki said that the British tried to prevent the Great Hunger at the Albany signing.
contradiction
Time has fresh shots of an anguished Ethel and a plaintive Rory Kennedy.
Ethel and Rory Kennedy are still suffering for the death of JFK
neutral
Questioned about China at his press conference, President Clinton admitted for the first time that his constructive-engagement policy hasn't improved China's behavior, but he maintained that it will in the future.
President Clinton believe's China's behavior will improve a decade from now.
neutral
A victory by Deep Blue would indicate its superior computational skills, but not a capacity for conscious thought.
Deep Blue is in a contest.
neutral
A story says robot insects will soon be deployed by the military.
The military plans to use the robots to squeeze through small crevices and infiltrate private meetings.
neutral
In her 18 years with him, she had never once heard Dole say, 'Here's what we're doing.
She never saw him once proclaim that statement in her tenure.
entailment
By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs
The world does not have the guidance it needs without macroeconomics.
entailment
Either way, Mother Teresa is a shoo-in.
Mother Teresa will easily make it in.
entailment
Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked?
They are concerned about their economist license being taken from them.
entailment
One had to separate the relationship, whatever it was, between Monica, et al.
The relationship between Monica and others had to be separated.
entailment
He likes to cite Kerouac's I am not anti-anything (except racists and certain big corporations).
Kerouac gives many profound statements for scholars.
entailment
They arrived in the summer of 1996.
They arrived during the hottest time of the year.
entailment
If you would like more information, you should go to the site that is actually handling this www.rtmark.com.
You will find the details at www.rtmark.com.
entailment
Jerry Falwell apologized for saying the Antichrist must be Jewish . At a prayer breakfast, he said, I apologize to my Jewish friends here and around the world and I apologize to the Christians here for having created any kind of rift.
Jerry Falwell probably was contrite about what he said
neutral
This is a delightful example of what lawyers call a bootstrap argument: If anyone points out that you've broken the rules, that's a challenge to your integrity, which requires reassuring the public, which means you have no longer broken the rules!
Lawyers frequently use bootstrapping in various aspects of professional life.
neutral
Perhaps he put soma into our drinking water.
The drinking water cannot be tampered with
contradiction
Which is odd, considering that five years ago Bennett was fretting that there were too few.
Bennett worried five years ago that there were too many.
contradiction
They assure the readers that they, like most economists and finance people, have their retirement savings in stocks.
They assured the readers that they handle their retirement savings like other economists and finance based professionals.
entailment
I'm afraid this is kind of a one joke question, and the joke is cheap and easy blasphemy.
This is a two joke question.
contradiction
Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.
The elections were equally irrelevant before the influx of money.
contradiction
Newt Gingrich messed with Medicare and went down in flames.
Newt Gingrich thrived after making adjustments to Medicare.
contradiction
One possibility is that these ads will develop into a new form of micro-pandering, but the process will be interesting no matter where it leads.
The expected outcome of these ads is to have no begging.
contradiction
One common mistake is to count federal grants-in-aid as state and local taxes, but that's double counting, since they're already paid for by federal taxes.
Double counting is one common mistake.
entailment
Truscott compares the intensive training you get in the Army with one of these weapons long before you're ever allowed to fire it, and then only under the supervision of an expert marksman, with the situation in states like Arkansas, where it's legal for a 10-year-old to own a semiautomatic assault weapon without a moment of safety instruction, training in how to shoot it or adult supervision.
In Arkansas the laws about guns aren't very wise
entailment
This is particularly unwise because after weeks of raking Clinton, reporters and pundits are inclined to demonstrate their balance by going after the GOP.
Reporters and pundits have an affinity toward Clinton.
contradiction
How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which normal middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' garage.
The students who had visions of mayhem would have rather been flirting with girls had they had the chance.
neutral
He's capable of much more than he usually gives.
He gives 100% every time.
contradiction
Another answer is to promote civic virtue.
Civic Virtue is the only answer.
contradiction
He's a freakish Peter Pan--the juvenile delinquent who wouldn't grow up.
He's a strange Peter Pan, a young screw up who won't mature.
entailment
To be sure, George Gilder needs no excuse to write block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows.
George Gilder writes block-that-metaphor prose like [Java] opens doors and shatters Windows all the time.
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The political culture of nationalism reserved its approval for those who led ruinous campaigns in pursuit of impossible quests, Ajami writes.
Ajami completely ignores politics
contradiction
Equally important--and I admit this sounds kind of cornball--success required the civic spiritedness of pro- and anti-busing parents alike, who saw their way clear to hammering out compromises.
The pro- and anti-busing parent groups were able to create a solution that worked out for both sides, moving forward.
neutral
It's also why he would make a lousy president.
His presidency will not be good.
entailment
I'd say it was the second number.
They wanted it to be the first number.
neutral
An article explores McDonald's niche offerings.
The story delves into the regular menu of a restaurant.
contradiction
In part, this is because Las Vegas has itself become one of the world's most powerful brand names.
Las Vegas is one of the world's most powerful brand names.
entailment
Navel-gazingly yours, Katharine
Katharine thinks deeply about being yours.
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