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When a decision-maker is more conscious of costs than of benefits, he tends to make decisions that are overly conservative.
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Cost conscious people are usually more conservative.
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entailment
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Time claims that friends say Willey's calm demeanor masks a surprising volatility ...
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Willey is quite tense.
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entailment
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Wolf sees the telling of her own personal experiences as a triumph for all women.
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The telling of these experiences is something that should be seen as a positive for women.
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entailment
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His philosophy might have prepared him for his own death
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He was ready to die, perhaps because of his own philosopy.
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entailment
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Who can I report disaster fraud to?
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One cannot report disaster fraud.
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contradiction
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I am sure that, despite its logic, my position sounds unrealistic to many readers.
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Several readers found the position to be realistic, but also illogical.
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contradiction
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While Johnson's survival deterred members of Congress from considering impeachment in Watergate, Nixon's ouster has had the opposite effect, emboldening Clinton's foes.
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Johnson died so Congress declared impeachment.
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contradiction
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But most observers--certainly the Barlows of the world--expect radical improvement.
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Nobody is expecting anything to get improved.
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contradiction
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(For the neutral-interrogator approach, try France.)
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Czechia is a close second in terms of skills as a neutral interrogator.
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neutral
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The media's willingness to buy this line was a result, in part, of the White House's ongoing campaign to depict Clinton as the victim of an inexorable right-wing machine.
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The media did not believe that Clinton was a victim.
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contradiction
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We must have unselfish, far-seeing leadership or we fail.
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He believed that a strong group of constituents could overcome any deficiencies exhibited by their leadership.
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contradiction
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A story says robot insects will soon be deployed by the military.
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A story mentioned the military will be deploying robot insects soon.
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entailment
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Why are you coming at me with that pillow?
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A person is moving towards another person.
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entailment
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Read him his rights for what crime?
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He had a pleasant conversation with the police.
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contradiction
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Little boys face a problem very similar to that of high-tech executives.
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high-tech executives get 200 vacation days a year.
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neutral
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I have a friend who was excluded from a jury because he answered yes to the question, Do you think a man who's been arrested is more likely to be guilty than a man who hasn't been arrested?
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His friend was excluded from the jury.
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entailment
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We have never been a moral majority, concedes one.
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Our morals include being nice to customer service employees.
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neutral
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I can't remember if it came from the tenure committee or the gentleman's club where I used to lap dance.
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The gentleman's club is located on decatur road.
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neutral
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The media's class bias protected Clinton from women like Jones and Gennifer Flowers--surely he couldn't be attracted to a woman who wasn't a Yale Law School graduate!
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Clinton had no protection from the likes of Gennifer Flowers.
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contradiction
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Greenberg and the contributors to The New Majority think Democrats can win future elections by identifying with the concerns of working people.
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By aligning yourself politically with the interests of the working class, this will lead to a higher likelihood of election victory.
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neutral
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Patents can even be held on the genetic blueprints of various forms of life.
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the patents on genetic blueprints tend to expire quickly.
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neutral
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perhaps a tad derivative of golub, but still an artist of far more restraint and maturity than one might expect of someone her age.
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Her artwork has similarities to golub.
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neutral
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Perverse as this may sound, Hitler is one reason why.
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Hitler is 1 reason why, contrary to popular belief.
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entailment
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Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics suggests so.
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The conclusion is supported by Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics.
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entailment
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You've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage.
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Thomas Vinterberg is a director.
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entailment
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If women are disproportionately pro big government, for whatever reason, how does that disqualify the big-government philosophy, or explain away its apparent triumph?
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Despite the support of women, it appears that big government is losing the battle to those pushing for less governmental oversight.
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contradiction
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He fights movie monsters, sings in a musical Western, and celebrates Thanksgiving ( Thanksgiving?
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The man participates in a myriad of activities.
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entailment
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But we don't give out drugs willy-nilly.
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Drugs aren't randomly handed out to people.
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entailment
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The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri.
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The World Book was written and published prior to 1961.
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entailment
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The pose and the prose of journalists have changed since Ben Hecht's The Front Page . Indeed, Hecht's reporters would have balked at being called journalists.
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Hecht employed reporters.
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entailment
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The second punishment would be doubled--2,000 lost Windows sales would mean 2,000 lost Internet Explorer sales, not 1,000.
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Subsequently to this, the third punishment would be increased five-fold.
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neutral
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If not, stadium seating will always be accessible to the average fan.
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Stadium seating has never been accessible to the average fan.
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contradiction
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Little boys face a problem very similar to that of high-tech executives.
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young boys and high-tech executives have really similar problems.
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entailment
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If I write a new diagnosis in a patient's chart, I have to indicate what I plan to do about it.
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Patients do not need new diagnoses.
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contradiction
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They were pitiful even by microbial standards.
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Their sad state of affairs stemmed from a recent market crash.
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neutral
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Yet Arafat remains popular --he won 88 percent of the vote in last year's presidential elections, and recent polls estimate his public-approval ratings at about 65 percent.
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Arafat's popularity will take a nosedive after this term.
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neutral
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According to Newsweek , Clinton attorney David Kendall is gathering dirt about Lewinsky's mendacity and presidential obsession.
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David Kendall passed the bar exam.
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entailment
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On the witness stand, Tom said that he and John were the only ones in the vehicle.
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The vehicle was in a car accident.
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neutral
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He united the Western coalition, and he led Gorbachev over the precipice.
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Gorbachev was never able to climb his way back up after his fall.
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neutral
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Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
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It takes deft skill in order to use overhype without it becoming a strategic blunder.
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neutral
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In hindsight, should you have stopped all private law practice?
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In hindsight, should you have resumed private law practice.
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contradiction
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The transformation of normal to abnormal may start with a pill.
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A pill may start a transformation.
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entailment
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Krugman would also have found out that the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange is not representative of the way things Bonds are important, and what businessmen are doing is important.
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Krugman would come to a realization about the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange.
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entailment
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After all, they don't offer employees car insurance.
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Employees wish they got offered car insurance.
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neutral
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It may be more important to ask whether it's helped the people it was supposed to help, he began.
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Many people needed help.
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neutral
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(Belize and Gibraltar are best, because they don't recognize American divorce judgments.)
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There are places that do not recognize American divorce judgments.
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entailment
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It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off.
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Nonviolent men will be targeted by killers.
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neutral
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A considerably audible tsk, tsk I send you, Slate.
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Slate knows he was saying something inappropriate.
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neutral
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Also, there is no Fifth Amendment right against incriminating others.
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The Fifth Amendment wouldn't protect you from a loose-lipped accomplice.
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entailment
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Clinton has faced an escalating series of serious accusations--serious in the sense that they were all plausible and some were true.
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None of the accusations against Clinton are true.
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contradiction
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Where they'll go is wherever as many people as possible will hear them.
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A group wants people to hear their voices.
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entailment
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There's a flower called Wandering Jew.
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Wandering Jew is the name of a flower.
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entailment
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So much for the cruel stereotype of the pea-brained dinosaur.
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The pea-brained dinosaur was never a mean stereotype.
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contradiction
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Alternatively, the fuel and communications networks they will build can be used to support an invasion.
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The fuel and communications networks will have no ramifications on any invasion.
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contradiction
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Its well-tended (by the federal government) parks, monuments, mansions, embassies, and museums can compare with those of any city in the world.
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The government has a dedicated staff whose only job is to maintain the monuments.
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neutral
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to the credible evolution of what's really become of me.
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My credible evolution has not changed me at all.
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contradiction
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The bald, pointy-eared vampire in Nosferatu is barely ambulatory, in fact.
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Nosferatu was bald with pointy ears.
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entailment
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An accompanying survey ranks the 100 biggest health Fallon Community comes out on top.
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This survey is a meaningful indication of the healthiest communities.
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neutral
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Academia's most popular one-year fellowship, the Guggenheim, has been awarded to dozens of academics, including the University of Chicago's Neil Harris, who will research the history of the American urban newspaper building, and Williams College's Richard Stamelman, who will study the literature and culture of perfume.
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Neil Harris was granted the Guggenheim fellowship.
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entailment
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Your best friend/replacement matron of honor, herself, lives out of state.
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The replacement matron of honor lives in Oklahoma.
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neutral
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Also, a stunning overhead photo depicts droves of worshipers at Mecca.
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Around twenty percent of the worshippers come from Southeast Asian countries.
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neutral
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The anti-poker campaign has galvanized the state like no issue ever has.
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The state does not care about poker issues.
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contradiction
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Most praise her for being able to hold her own, as opposed to noticing any genuine musical ability, and note that the album is far more pop-oriented than the drum 'n' bass and jungle she spins live.
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People's praises have veered away from her musical ability due to the genre she performs in.
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neutral
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The next day's Los Angeles Times goes with the DLC Clinton's Centrist Big Draw Among Party Faithful.
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Many people read the next day's Los Angeles Times.
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neutral
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There is a mysterious disconnect between Eszterhas' self-image and his work.
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Eszterhas is mysteriously disconnected from his image and his work.
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entailment
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The RPH has hidden literary talents.
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All of the RPH's literary talents are hidden, none can be seen.
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neutral
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Microsoft's position is a reflection of an economic phenomenon often referred to as network externalities (a k a positive economic feedback or increasing returns to scale).
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Network externalities can best describe Microsoft's current position.
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entailment
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Maybe we shouldn't save every premature baby regardless of the cost.
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It is morally obligatory to save all premature babies.
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neutral
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But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.
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I can clearly visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.
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contradiction
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But what if times get tough and caps start to pinch?
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Times are not tough.
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entailment
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While King vacillated, Malcolm X seized the nation's attention with his calls for retribution, tempting blacks weary of King's nonviolence and sending whites into a panic.
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More black people agreed with King's stance than they did Malcom X's stance on violence.
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neutral
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He looked at her and said, Monday morning.
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He said they would meet on Friday.
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contradiction
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Her mixed priorities when it comes to women were also revealed by the fact that she voted nay on the minimum-wage bill even though it included her own IRA proposal--and despite the fact that, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 60 percent of people working at minimum wage are women.
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A woman voted gainst the minimum wage bill despite having a portion of her policies within.
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entailment
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Tripp has spent 26 years in this cocoon, which will enable her to retire on a handsome pension, based on the average of her three highest consecutive years of pay.
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Tripp has been emploed for 26 years.
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entailment
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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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We can do nothing to improve the world for our children.
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contradiction
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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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They aren't able to capitalize on Starr's situation.
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entailment
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Though Wilson was unmarried, dating another woman so soon after his wife's death seemed vaguely scandalous in 1915, especially because, as Starling discreetly put it, Wilson was afraid another woman--a Mrs. Peck, whom the President had known years before--would make trouble if an engagement were announced.
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It would be scandalous to date another woman after Wilson's wife's death.
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entailment
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Bill, our program manager (chief tech guy) answers questions about problems and possibilities in reading SLATE.
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All of the technical roles at the company are done by women.
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contradiction
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One answer is to try to change the incentives of politicians, by making it more difficult for special interests to buy influence.
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one solution seems to help preserve the motives of politicians by making it easier for special interest to buy influence.
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contradiction
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In Russia, under the headline Reds in the White House?
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It has something to do with Russia.
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entailment
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For example, had the writer of the Genesis creation story been composing for a 20 th century readership, he or she would have explained God's hand in the evolutionary process as opposed to the more magical creation story in the Bible.
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The Genesis creation story perfectly explains evolution.
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contradiction
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Kutchins and Kirk claim that the DSM isn't a true account of mental illness because it's informed by particular social values.
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Kutchins and Kirk are world-renowned psychiatrists.
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neutral
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That argument which holds that the attempt to raise saving will end up lowering national income, because consumption will fall, and with it profits, output, and employment.
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One theory argues savings can inversely affect national income.
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entailment
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Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture.
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Soderberg meticulously searches the movies scenes.
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entailment
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So if the mechanics of affirmative action in the military mimic those of affirmative action in higher education, why hasn't the military taken the same flak?
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The military's affirmative action policies are nearly identical to those that universities and colleges use.
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entailment
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officials have played a key role in concocting the treaty and stewarding it to its conclusion.
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The officials showed no interest in writing the treaty but did support it in the end.
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contradiction
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I e-mailed all three galleries, asking them to explain the disparity in their prices.
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They all three replied to my email.
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neutral
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The MacDonalds of the world won't go away just because you think they're not worth responding to.
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People won't go away just because you want them to.
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entailment
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That is the sense in which we are all on the same bus.
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We are all in the same situation.
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entailment
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For people who are not immersed in recovery but are receptive to the notion of sex addiction, the president's dysfunction simply means that, like Ken Starr, he is out of control.
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Sex addiction refers to the inability to control one's sexual desires.
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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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Mann getting as much as he did on the screen was probably an achievement.
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entailment
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In Newsday , James Wood optimistically proposes the One feels behind the postmodernism an old realist modernist grinding away, eager to notate reality (though in funky ways).
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James Wood made sure all of his work was funky.
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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's father did not help her get the job.
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contradiction
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It's one of the great British foods like roast beef and pork crackling, he explained.
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Roast beef and pork crackling originated from India.
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contradiction
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They can score, but they can't play D.
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Trying to win all of your games in shootouts, is an effective way to win games.
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neutral
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8) Labor Secretary-nominee Alexis Herman, who was closer to the fund-raising mess, will now be confirmed easily because the Senate is satisfied with having killed Lake.
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Alexis Herman has absolutely no connection to the fund-raising mess.
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contradiction
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The cookie-cutter profiles note that Kennedy was a mediocre student but had a perfect 6-0 conviction record as a prosecutor.
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Performance as a student is correlated with performance as a prosecutor.
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neutral
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In this group, it's common for moms to march into school at the beginning of the year and obtain several months' worth of assignments in advance so their children can get a head start.
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The children appreciate the efforts of their mothers to give them a head start.
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neutral
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But even these relatively honest conservatives have let all the fat fish wriggle off the hook.
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Conservatives are normally not honest.
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neutral
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This is why managed care is a genuinely confusing Should voters believe the anecdotes, which are real and horrifying, or should they accept the evidence that people are mostly happy with their own insurance, happy to be paying less, and as healthy as they have ever been?
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The easy thing about analyzing the merits of managed care and insurance is that none of the supporting data is conflicting.
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contradiction
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