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No one blinks 40-car motorcades that shut down interstates and gridlock traffic, the 200-plus-strong Secret Service delegation that accompanies the president abroad, the transformation of the open White House into an impenetrable fortress.
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Everybody can walk into the White House unimpeded.
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contradiction
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3) The study is flawed because it assumes the participants correctly recalled their dietary habits.
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People don't have perfect recollection of their diets.
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neutral
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Most societies prohibit adultery--sex between a married person and someone other than his or her spouse--at least, formally.
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Adultery is prohibited in many societies, but not formally.
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entailment
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I wrote no such thing, and Arthur has never, to my knowledge, claimed any such thing.
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I have never written that.
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entailment
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3) The appeals court's decision has nasty ramifications for the entire government.
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The entire government is going to have many policies changed.
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neutral
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In the warren of grungy rooms beneath the dance floor--the celebrities' sanctum sanctorum--the coke was consumed by the linear foot, and (according to the author) the odd European contessa could be found handcuffed to a water pipe, getting squired from the rear by one of the pretty shirtless busboys.
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It has been stated that drugs were used in the rooms beneath the dance floor.
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entailment
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I noticed this as I was moving the furniture on the second floor back into the bedrooms.
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This is a single-story structure.
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contradiction
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He appeared on every network Tuesday night to insist that the Bush brothers and other victorious Republican governors such as George Pataki (New York), John Rowland (Connecticut), Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), and John Engler (Michigan) were conservatives.
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No Republican governors were victorious.
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contradiction
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The court upheld a trial judge's decision to 1) reduce Woodward's conviction from murder to manslaughter in the death of an 8-month-old baby and 2) reduce her prison sentence from 15 years to the 279 days she had already served.
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The baby that died was Woodward's.
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neutral
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For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.
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Rothko is still alive to this day.
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contradiction
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The proposed HearSLATE could then offer discriminating commuters and professional drivers some intellectual refuge from the endless tirade of mindless drivel currently broadcast by the common carriers.
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The majority of commuters and professional drivers support HearSLATE.
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neutral
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The fourth quarter is Jordan Time.
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Jordan accomplished little in his basketball career.
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contradiction
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Smith's press secretary, Ken Wolfe, boasts that by offering that bill, We have called their bluff.
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Ken Wolfe, Smith's press secretary, said he neither received nor offered a bill.
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contradiction
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Criticisms of the The computers do nothing useful, and the futuristic designs are not anything people might actually want to wear ( Business Week ).
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The designs were meant to shock the consumers.
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neutral
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Religious conservatives complain that the GOP has ignored their causes.
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A prominent southern conservative religious leader named Jasper has stated that the GOP is losing its moral foundation.
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neutral
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Characteristically, he didn't sign it, or even add one of his famous cheery little messages.
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The document was definitely not signed by him.
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entailment
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They inhabit the near-boiling water of geysers in Yellowstone, and the even hotter water in volcanic vents on the ocean floor.
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The water within the geysers at Yellowstone is extremely hot.
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entailment
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But the links may also be genetic or, at the very least, the result of ancient ancestral contact.
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These links can be made gentically, through ancient ancestral contact, or through many other ways.
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neutral
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The only new fact in Flytrap that would qualify as genuine news would be one proving Bill Clinton didn't have sex with Lewinsky.
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Flytrap is a place that doesn't have a lot of genuine news.
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entailment
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How does a former police officer get involved with running a laboratory making illegal speed?
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The police officer is undercover.
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contradiction
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There we find that in 1975, workers in Taiwan and South Korea received only 6 percent as much per hour as their counterparts in the United States; by 1995, the numbers were 34 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
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In 1975 workers in Taiwan made far less money than their United States counterparts.
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entailment
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. I suppose you could make an argument that it's a significant enough phenomenon, so that it deserves to be here.
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All significant phenomenon deserve to be here.
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neutral
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Largely because they have heard so many alarming tales about HMOs.
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HMOs handle their business efficiently.
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neutral
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But in the world we live in--or at least in the neighborhood I live in--there are so many interchangeable dry cleaners that none of them should be able to get away with exploiting anyone.
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There are lots of dry cleaners in his neighborhood.
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entailment
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That said, I am now officially Hillary'd out.
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I supported Hillary at one time.
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neutral
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Who ever heard of a wiener dog named Fluffy?
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Sparky is a pretty popular name for wiener dogs.
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neutral
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Perhaps he's next on the FTC's hit list.
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he's also wanted for theft.
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neutral
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When you see Bradley, you see a naturally diffident man talking about how he would like to run for president and fretting about the distance between his ideal campaign and the real one.
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Bradley is interested in being President.
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entailment
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No question, taxes can affect behavior.
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Taxes can affect the way people act.
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entailment
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GS's Saturday Evening Post articles eerily suggest words we were to hear 50 or 60 years later.
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Words were suggested to be heart 50 or 60 years later.
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entailment
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Click to read my letter, Anderson's response, and my annotations.
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Anderson did not issue a response.
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contradiction
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The girls who believe the scarves mean freedom may in fact be blinded by them.
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According to the girls, the scarves signified oppression.
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contradiction
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And according to the WP TV column, the two talk when they're in the exercise yard together--about old-time flicks they've enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies, which they see via the prison's free cable hook-up.
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It has been years since the prisoners have watched TV.
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contradiction
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Reading this book helped me see that I am a minimal realist.
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This book is about minimal realism.
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neutral
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The Enquirer , however, says the girl called Sawyer's office to say men with guns were at the apartment.
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Sawyer is a member of the police force.
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neutral
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Quality-of-life drugs offer not just the pleasing possibility that you can do something about impotence, baldness, blackened toenails.
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Some experts argue that quality-of-life drugs are only effective 70 percent of the time overall.
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neutral
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Finally, as he prepares to launch his own daily TV show, we thought we'd highlight National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker's confident prediction that there'll never, ever be a post-Lewinsky photo showing Bill [Clinton] with a cigar.
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Mike Walker is going to make a confident prediction
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neutral
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The dehydrated food industry is booming, Time notes.
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It is a bad time for the dehydrated food industry.
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contradiction
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Coke refuses to concede, directing inordinate attention to even tiny neighborhoods.
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A swift surrender was provided by Coke, ready to direct attention elsewhere.
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contradiction
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It is seen as a rebuke to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott and a victory for Democrats, Sen.
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The rebuke to Lott was given by the Senate President.
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neutral
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The English gutter press, which was just developing a wide audience, whipped up public hatred toward him over his sex crimes and made him a pariah.
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The English Gutter Press is a profitable organization.
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neutral
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He also knew what too many latter-day economists have Macroeconomics is crucial to the public credibility of economics as a whole.
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Some economists are concerned that the public views their work with skepticism.
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entailment
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My concern here isn't so much for Leuchter or even the Holocaust revisionists, who'll just think he was sandbagged.
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I am so very concerned for Leuchter.
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contradiction
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For Singing in a church choir counts as volunteering
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Church singing does not meet the level of requirements to qualify as volunteering.
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contradiction
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She says Newsweek 's Eleanor Clift has gone beyond the call of duty to earn [her] presidential kneepads.
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Presidential kneepads are a metaphorical reference used to describe White House reporters.
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neutral
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The fate of love letters written by Diana to her former lover, James Hewitt, and stolen from him by his Italian mistress, who recently tried to sell them to the London Daily Mirror, which instead handed them over to her executors, has preoccupied all the London newspapers for several days.
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James Hewitt's Italian mistress still has some of the love letters from Diana.
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neutral
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It gets better when they stop to chat.
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Things get better when people take the time to stop and chat.
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entailment
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An article chronicles the aborted return of offbeat television.
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This will have been the third attempted return of offbeat television in this market within the last couple of years.
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neutral
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They're deceased!
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They died only recently.
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neutral
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And at the end, when Baryshnikov throws himself into the arms of his father, who wraps him in his prayer shawl, one gets a powerful sense of the goodness of man and God.
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As Baryshnikov and his father hugged, they cried.
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neutral
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Friends of mine, especially women, found sitting through the film akin to being smeared with excrement.
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My friends and women did not enjoy the film.
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entailment
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And you have to keep experimenting with alterations and examining the results as external conditions change over time.
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Experiments must always stay exactly the same.
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contradiction
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The first of five special issues about the 21 st century imagines health and environment in the future.
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There were multiple special issues put out that hypothesized about the future.
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entailment
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I think I can read your story between the lines.
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The story can only be understood from the words straight forward.
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contradiction
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Either way, Mother Teresa is a shoo-in.
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Mother Teresa is a good example of a shoo-in.
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entailment
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Map maker, map maker, make up your mind, and make me a perfect map!
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No one needed maps from the map maker any longer.
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contradiction
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The writers had to make their points in terms that people of the time would understand.
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The writers used terminolgy that no one understood.
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contradiction
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Midlist Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the midlist book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.
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The conglomerates are increasingly counting on midlist books to provide financial windfalls.
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contradiction
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You can be the birthplace of Heidegger, Hegel, Leibniz, Bach, Beethoven, Brecht, and Martin Luther, but you start one little world war ...
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Germany is the birthplace of many great minds, but had also started a world war.
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entailment
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There is plenty of evidence that the first gap has been declining--fairly rapidly by historical standards.
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The second gap, on the other hand, has been rising.
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neutral
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How do you know if your daughter is on steroids?
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My daughter is being questioned on taking steroids.
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entailment
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To track all of this month's four-star movies, check out the TV-Now website Four Star Movies February TV Schedule.
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This month is February.
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entailment
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In any event, foolishly excessive trade surpluses are a greater danger than foolishly excessive trade deficits . That's because excessive trade deficits are self- If you run a trade deficit every year, bankruptcy will eventually force you to stop.
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Even with numerous trade deficits, bankruptcy is not an issue.
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contradiction
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Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations.
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A three-year trial period is proposed.
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entailment
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In the age of possibility that beckons, one thing that apparently will not be possible is a policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group.
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This in an unprecedented development.
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neutral
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She was a mother and thirty-three years old, and it seemed to her that everyone, especially someone the baker's age--a man old enough to be her father--must have children who'd gone through this special time of cakes and birthday parties.
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She was a little girl who had just started kindergarten.
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contradiction
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But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation.
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Deregulation has been discussed for a long time.
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neutral
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The cover article urges the GOP and the Christian right to compromise.
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It is best for conservationism for there to be compromise between the two groups.
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neutral
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Didion, in other words, has written a fast-paced story, not just her usual series of fractured stories.
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Didion's new story was well received.
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neutral
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Chavis and Farrakhan both argue that Christianity and the nation are incompatible, and many predict that the 49-year-old Chavis will ultimately succeed Farrakhan.
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There has been no consideration given to who will follow Farrakhan as leader of the nation.
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contradiction
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Acclaim for the pulp-fiction writer's 34 th novel.
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The writer has written at least thirty four novels.
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entailment
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Midlist Some charge that the conglomerates are starting to ignore the midlist book, serious nonfiction and literary fiction that sells fewer than 30,000 copies, preferring to gamble on potentially lucrative blockbusters.
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Some midlist books do end up providing lucrative returns for their publishers.
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neutral
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Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.
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Kerensky was not there during the February revolution.
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entailment
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Degas' very retreat from contemporary life owes something to his disgust with French society as he found it.
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Degas had experience with French society.
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entailment
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American Movie suggests that there's no such thing as the little people in the hinterlands anymore.
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American Movie suggests the little people are in the hinterlands and have always been there.
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contradiction
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the thing is I don't know how I can pick one or the other as maid of honor.
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The wedding is going to be in Hawaii.
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neutral
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13-year-old Latino gang I ain't down to die right now, for I'm barely having fun.
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I have plans for my life.
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neutral
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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.
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Slate's 2 warrior work relentlessly with no time to stop and think.
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contradiction
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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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Neukom refused to give any comment.
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contradiction
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Her delivery isn't moist--it's prickly and blunt, and she can jabber convincingly, so that the jabbering takes on a life of its own and leaves her (sometimes horrified) in the dust.
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she prattles on in a forward manner.
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entailment
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It was not always this way.
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Life is static.
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contradiction
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b) Did not quit on principle after Clinton admitted lies.
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Clinton did not want to answer their questions.
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neutral
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Well, there has been an excruciatingly technical argument about this, mysteriously known as the double dividend debate; the general consensus seems to be no, and that on balance pollution taxes would be more likely to reduce GDP slightly than to increase it.
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There is not a unanimous agreement on the double dividend debate.
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entailment
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Witness Sunday's NYT piece on Kauai by the paper's Los Angeles bureau chief Todd S. Purdum, who tore himself away for a week in order to break the bulletin that the exoticism of the island state is palpable and omnipresent.
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Todd Purdum claims Kauai's exoticism is notable and far-reaching.
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entailment
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The backdoor sniping has become so pernicious and prevalent that even retired Gen.
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There has been some hostility behind the scenes.
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entailment
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What makes a late abortion disturbing is that the fetus is big now--like a fully formed child.
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The author doesn't have any issues with supporting late term abortions.
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contradiction
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The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.
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Dominic is single and lives by himself.
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contradiction
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If you missed the demonstration that either diGenova or Toensing was the original source for the Dallas Morning News report about a Secret Service agent who witnessed Clinton and Lewinsky in a compromising situation, click here.
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The Dallas Morning News had a report about a SSA who saw Clinton and Lewinsky doing bad things.
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entailment
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One must be a little skeptical of Sperling's personal experience with the game.
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Sperling's ability in this game is perfect and does not need to be scrutinized.
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contradiction
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When I tell people I'm an ultimate fighting fan, they invariably Don't people get killed all the time doing that?
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No one thinks people could die from the ultimate fighting.
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contradiction
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Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete.
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Poblete, a Washington insider, also reports Republicans and Democrats are split on the issue.
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neutral
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Newsweek 's longer piece likens this to swapping Katharine Hepburn for Whitney was revered for her practicality, whereas Fuller exudes buzz.
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Newsweek does not concern itself with pundits like Hepburn or Whitney.
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contradiction
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This question generated, by far, a record number of similarlies all focused on Pat Buchanan's politics.
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Pat Buchanan does not focus on politics.
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contradiction
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In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before.
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Rieff's book was not well received by the Left.
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entailment
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In a way, I think it has already helped Microsoft's image.
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Microsoft does not care.
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contradiction
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You are right that there was no obvious winner in your wager--not you, your friend, or even, alas, the president.
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Nobody came out on top in regards to the wager you made.
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entailment
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Drew said there would then be an entire week to write off Forbes between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire.
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Drew knew there was only two days between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire.
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contradiction
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Today's Papers is sorry that the Journal wasn't curious enough to find out the average age of those CEOs.
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Today's Papers was pleased with the level of research in the Journal article.
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contradiction
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He misses some of the lightness and agility demanded by florid passages.
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His lightness and agility was perfect.
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contradiction
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On the other hand, Fish never claimed to be right.
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Fish only claimed to be correct.
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contradiction
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