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The shotgun-marriage rate itself declined only gradually, but that is not surprising.
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The decline in shotgun marriage rate has been expected by many people.
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entailment
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A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars.
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Those who like nice cars would be well targeted by a Lexus ad in Fortune magazine.
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entailment
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I'd say some News Quiz participants owe some quasi-autonomous but government-regulated agency a letter of apology.
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Nobody should ever send a letter of apology.
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contradiction
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Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders.
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Convictions prevent murders.
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entailment
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He united the Western coalition, and he led Gorbachev over the precipice.
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The Western coalition was united by him.
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entailment
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But marketing people are the worst offenders when it comes to wanting to add new features, generating loud choruses of NO even from otherwise enthusiastic developers.
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Those who work in marketing are the worst culprits when it comes to wanted to add new details, which initiates choruses of No's from even eager developers.
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entailment
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While this may have been true for a good many (Beatles, Dylan), the requirements of publishing every two weeks meant others, like the Moodies, Vanilla Fudge, Jefferson Airplane (Son of Jesus, anyone?)
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Publishing every two weeks was a detriment to the Beatles.
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contradiction
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It offered reportage that chronicles the good, the bad, and the otherwise, and leaves readers fully informed and equipped to judge what deserves their attention and support.
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It offered little, in terms of what the readers found useful, which caused them to move on to a different report.
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contradiction
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Willey might have a better case against Clinton if she wants to make it--and if her story is true.
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It's possible that Clinton assaulted Willey
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neutral
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One of his first stories of love, The First Seven Years, from Partisan Review in 1950, strikes me as nearly perfect, though.
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The partistan review took place in 1950.
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entailment
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An accident 40 times worse than Chernobyl is possible.
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Chernobyl are the worst mishaps possible.
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contradiction
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This is certainly not democracy, but it's not totalitarianism either.
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This could be communism.
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neutral
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Except that the executive who was assigned the difficult task of dealing with the Shopping Avenger, one Jennifer Nemeth, did a provisionally satisfactory job of making the Shopping Avenger happy.
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Every Shopping Avenger is easy to handle.
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contradiction
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But Disney Pooh reaches the world.
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Pooh is strictly popular in the United States.
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contradiction
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I remember.
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I do not remember.
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contradiction
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4 billion is spent on medication and doctor visits . There is plenty of room for growth--only an estimated 12 percent of hay fever sufferers seek medical treatment.
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The author believes that less should be spent on doctor visits, especially for hay fever sufferers.
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contradiction
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You mentioned yesterday that today you were going to take on his concluding section.
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The person being talked to forgot to take on the concluding section.
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neutral
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The long Relax, dynasties haven't killed the men's game.
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Dynasties are slated to overtake the men's game.
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neutral
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Clinton's Whitewater and assorted other troubles, having been more thoroughly aired in his first term, may have run their course.
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Clinton's past troubles had finally begun to bare their fruit.
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entailment
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At the expense of the middle class.
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The middle class are paying for it.
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entailment
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Clinton's partisans have linked Starr to Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell, and other bogeymen.
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The link between Starr and Helms has been made by Clinton's opponents
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contradiction
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2) And yet you secretly desire one so you can capture some magical moments from your childhood.
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You had a happy childhood.
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neutral
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California Institute of Technology vaults from fourth to first in the magazine's annual university rankings . Its three-to-one student-faculty ratio is much praised, as is its annual spending of $192,000 on each student.
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The school would receive praise and acknowledgment for it's achievements, which helped keep it in the spotlight for quite a while.
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neutral
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Pecker is a breezy, agreeable picture--a charmer, thumbs-up, three stars--but there's something disappointing about a John Waters film that's so evenhanded and all-embracing, even if its sunniness is ironic.
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Pecker is a cheerful and charming three stars film.
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entailment
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Ad revenue increased but not enough to cover enormous new Recruiting new subscribers by direct mail, printing more magazines, and mailing more magazines are tremendously expensive operations.
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It costs tremendous amounts of money to run a magazine company.
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entailment
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Nevertheless, they were trumpeted throughout the nation, because the media had little else to talk about.
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The media reports non-essential facts.
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neutral
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They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity.
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The Backstreet Boys were their favorite.
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neutral
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I have a Pavlovian reaction to the pre-title black-white-and-red bit with Monty Norman's theme and the gun site roving over the latest 007 as he saunters to the center of the frame--I go, Kill 'em, Bond!
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The author really hates watching James Bond movies.
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contradiction
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All it would take is for a few prominent politicians to stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls.
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It would take a lot more than for politicians to quit putting lobbyists in high office.
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contradiction
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Deseg students bused from the inner-city find class differences harder to bridge than racial ones.
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The students from the inner-city would continue to struggle in making the transition to their new surroundings and learning to relate to those that were from a different social class than them.
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neutral
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On Meet the Press , White House Chief of Staff John Podesta We're not negotiating, Tim.
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On FoxNews White House press secretary Kaylee McEnany plans negotiations.
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contradiction
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Every computer Apple makes costs a lot to make.
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Apple sells cheap clearance cart computers.
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contradiction
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Issue 3, the viability of the long-suffering tobacco bill, confounds everyone.
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The tobacco bill is one of the most confusing bills
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neutral
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Has the World Wide Web, which only appeared in 1993, failed us?
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The search engines and web pages for the world wide web have been trying to make improvements.
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neutral
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Hillary's rage that night was surely one of the most authentic sights ever shown on television, prompting the thought that, unlike the absurd Linda Tripp, both Clintons really are us, in our various phases--and incidentally that Hillary may be the only first lady in my lifetime (which goes back a bit) that one can even imagine being friends with.
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Hillary's rage was absent from television.
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contradiction
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, higher taxes, more generous provisions for the poor) are not what they want.
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The right to free speech is considered appreciated by only a few.
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neutral
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driving a car--that are not wrong in themselves, just wrong for a 5-year-old.
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When a child turns 5 they automatically know how to drive.
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contradiction
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He hasn't much changed America.
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America has changed drastically.
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contradiction
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(The magazine's own take is more There will be minor glitches but not wholesale societal collapse.)
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The magazine's perspective is that minor issues will crop up but society won't crash.
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entailment
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But a small item in the WP 's TV column makes you wonder even about It seems that UPN has ordered up a full season of episodes for the virtually all-black Moesha, which as of last Sunday, the paper reports, ranked 124th among the 139 series on the air.
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Moesha's show is unpopular with all groups.
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neutral
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Since the talking heads agree with Bush's competitors that it's a non-story, Round 1 goes to Bush.
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The talking heads thought Bush lost round one.
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contradiction
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The media debated whether Bush's drug history should be probed.
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Bush used a lot of different kinds of drugs, and the media wanted to expose that.
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neutral
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Unfortunately, mine were no less vocal in their objections to being kicked out of our bed at those ages than when they were infants.
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The author now has children the age of adults.
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neutral
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Check out our newest feature, Ask Bill Barnes.
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Ask Bill Barnes is the newest feature.
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entailment
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I suggest a test to resolve the matter.
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Test are always 100 percent accurate.
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contradiction
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.. It must be said that this kind of approach is very tricky.
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This method is known to be easy.
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contradiction
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Bottomless Mug
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A tall green coffee mug.
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neutral
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The vote on Proposition 227 is evidence of the public will, says Gigot--the people reject screwy ideas such as bilingual education.
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Only the liberals embraced Proposition 227.
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neutral
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WordPerfect and Netscape work just fine on my Windows-based machine.
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My machine is so old it has trouble running WordPerfect without crashing.
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contradiction
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Also, the routine random inspections used by U.S. government agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are almost exactly like those planned under the CWC, and these have been found constitutional.
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The inspections supervised by the CWC are almost identical to those conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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entailment
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The product could make the blind more independent.
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The blind would only grow more reliant on others after buying the product.
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contradiction
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Against this background, Bush's Guard service looks noble.
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Bush's service Guards look honorable standing in the background.
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entailment
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I already know I am an idiot, but am I to be a happy idiot or a miserable one?
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I am far from an idiot, I would call myself a genius.
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contradiction
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In 1992, the paper delayed its expose of masher Sen.
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The paper was unsure if it should expose masher Sen.
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neutral
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So are bitchin' and stoked . Every generation insists on having its own new words for the most aggressively up-to-date aspects of life.
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It's preferable that people would stop making up words.
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neutral
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Lost in the managed-care rumble is this Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place?
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Employers provide health care coverage just to keep employees capable to come to work.
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neutral
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Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion.
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Every number is equal to itself
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entailment
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The tricky question is what are the core values that really define you and what are the fringe issues on which differences are not crucial.
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Distinguishing one’s central values from more flexible issues is a difficult dilemma.
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entailment
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But Disney Pooh reaches the world.
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The other characters from Winnie the Pooh are equally well known.
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neutral
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Still, for barbed wisdom, surprises, and technique, there's no one like Spark.
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Spark had poor technique.
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contradiction
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A teaser horse is the warm-up act, an important but ultimately expendable creature.
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Teaser horses are seen as an intro.
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entailment
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The Republican platform advocated that citizenship be denied to children born in the United States to illegal immigrants.
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Republicans staged protests about giving the children of Illegal immigrants citizenships
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neutral
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Well, my wife nearly fainted to see me castigated in public, no less on the Internet!
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My wife thinks it's fine when I get castigated in public on the internet.
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contradiction
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This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold.
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The items this week are of equal importance.
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contradiction
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And even then, James added, it's all humbug.
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After all, James thinks it's nonsense.
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entailment
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You know, it's not a bad idea to close the windows when it rains.
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It gets very wet inside if the windows are open and it rains.
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neutral
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Gore, like Clinton, has often used cultural issues such as abortion to make the GOP look extreme.
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Both Gore and Clinton have spoken on the moderate nature of the GOP.
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contradiction
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The production of services also roughly doubled--but there was little productivity improvement, and employment grew by 90 percent.
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Employment increased dramatically due to the twofold increase in the production of services.
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entailment
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According to the publication, just months after the skiing accident death of her husband, Sonny, she tossed piles of irreplaceable mementos of the late singer-congressman into the dumpster, where they were retrieved by one of his former restaurant employees.
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Sonny was a famous actor.
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contradiction
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The Star covers George Michael's arrest for exposing himself in a men's room at Los Angeles' Will Rogers Memorial Park as if it's writing a review.
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The Star has a very opinionated article on George Michael's arrest for exposing himself in a men's room at Los Angeles' Will Rogers Memorial Park.
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entailment
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Speed Racer's musical theme--Go Speed Racer, go!
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The words to Speed Racer's musical theme are sung.
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entailment
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The drive to find and eat food was integral to the survival of our early ancestors.
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Our early ancestors could survive without food.
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contradiction
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During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.
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Soviets turned away military intervention for fear of provoking conflicts with liberals.
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contradiction
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More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.
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Huang Yong Ping lives in Germany.
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contradiction
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Kaaterskill Falls ,by Allegra Goodman (Dial Press).
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Allegra Goodman is uninterested in writing
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contradiction
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Weegee's Life, Death, and the Human Drama (International Center of Photography Midtown, New York City).
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Weegee is still alive.
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contradiction
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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 tends to use the familiar format of the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suicide.
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entailment
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A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the printed exhibition guide that replaces the usual wall panels.
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The poses featured in the artwork are bizarre and the artwork uses pastel to convey aggression.
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entailment
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Come to think of it, Brahms isn't that close to Mozart.
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Brahms and Mozart are not so close because they don't like each other.
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neutral
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Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif.
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California is a city in Oakland state.
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contradiction
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1) The script leaves out crucial parts of Winchell's story.
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Winchell in a minor charachter in the script.
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neutral
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The year he returned to Congress, 1965, the national endowments for the arts and humanities were voted into existence.
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The national endowment for the arts and humanities was voted on in 1965.
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entailment
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And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
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Allergies are unlikely to weed out mates.
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entailment
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Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their authenticity and ends in bowdlerization.
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Mintz raves about our regional cuisines.
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contradiction
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When Pixar went public, the money raised from that very first sale of its shares was what it used to run its business in the future.
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Pixar continues to run as a privately owned company.
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contradiction
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Lamar Alexander's campaign never got off the ground because the American people can recognize a phony ().
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Alexander's phoniness was disagreeable to the American people.
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entailment
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Here's what worries Given the subtlety of the real issues here, what is the chance that this stuff will be decided on its merits?
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People often judge on merits.
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neutral
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The changes were attributed 1) increased cohabitation
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The changes were attributed 1) decreased cohabitation.
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contradiction
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There's a flower called Wandering Jew.
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Wandering Jew is the name of a plant.
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entailment
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Imagine a law school class with 100 places.
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It is not unheard of for a law school class to have over fifty places.
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entailment
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In one famous case, Inglis helped kill federal funding for a needed highway, requiring the state to build a toll road instead.
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Inglis was pressured to build a toll road rather than a highway
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neutral
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In one way, though, it is more exact.
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There are a few ways to do it, but this will me more accurate.
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neutral
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Chief among Will China preserve the rule of law and free speech, which are essential for business prosperity?
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Business prosperity is greatest with free speech and the rule of law.
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neutral
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Surely Madison Avenue has enough brains to make a Hakeem ad--or a Clyde Drexler ad, or a Malone ad--that appeals to inner-city kids.
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Madison Avenue is looking to make an ad to reach rich kids.
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contradiction
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Well, I don't think I was running a laboratory, I think that's a misconception.
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It is true that I was operating a laboratory.
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contradiction
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Words are now rarely carved in stone
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In school children often carve words in stone presently instead of using paper.
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contradiction
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Like Mark Twain, who said that suicide is the only sane thing the young or old ever do in this life, we imagine that the elderly and the ill desire death rationally.
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All older and sick people want to die.
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contradiction
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Or, instead, should we fight tooth and nail to preserve and extend programs like the Earned Income Tax Credit that help the working poor?
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The author battles for stimuli that will benefit lower class workers.
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entailment
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It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal.
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The song is a favorite among the band's multitude of fans.
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neutral
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After-school prayer clubs skirt church-state separation laws and are popping up in as many as 1 out of every 4 public schools in the country.
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The prayer clubs have a minimal presence in public schools.
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contradiction
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