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Life aboard ship is tough
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Many hardships await those who choose to spend their lives aboard ships.
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entailment
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He's asking us to overlook it.
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He doesn't want us to pay attention to it.
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neutral
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To get reporters to stop asking about Lewinsky, Clinton doesn't have to give them the truth, he just has to tire them out.
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When it comes to Lewinsky, Clinton is an open book.
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contradiction
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Should he try and then fail, Beijing will conclude that it is dealing with a weak administration.
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Beijing thinks they are dealing with a very strong administration.
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contradiction
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By making a tax dispute the putative reason for invading a planet, Lucas merely transposed historical events that Americans ought to be familiar with.
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Lucas referred to events in American history for reasons of invading a planet.
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neutral
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Keyes : Join me in a prayer to Our Creator.
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They would like to pray to the creator.
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entailment
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If you go, don't forget to buy the illuminating book by its curator, Valerie Steele.
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Valerie Steele was selling lights.
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contradiction
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If no one needs you, what good are you, and what are you here for?
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Your purpose and worth are in question when no one needs you.
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entailment
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And the reason why the rest of us sit in our armchairs and read about these accomplishments is because we wish we'd done something as interesting with our time.
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People do not read about others accomplishments.
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contradiction
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His decision to resign and run for the ambassadorship few expect him to win should be treated like these other nutty episodes.
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She is confident with her decision to resign.
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neutral
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Critics revel in his fresh dish (Clinton turns apoplectic over the slightest unfavorable mention
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Clinton is very sensitive to the criticism
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entailment
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But Szwed overlooks a crucial distinction between Sun Ra and his forebears.
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Szwed needed more information on Sun Ra to make an informed opinion.
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neutral
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I'd like to see us get on to the issues, replied Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., when asked on This Week about Broaddrick's allegation.
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This Week is broadcasted in prime time.
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contradiction
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The difference, of course, is that instead of rewarding the poor, it rewards the powerful.
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Instead of rewarding the powerful we should be rewarding the poor.
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entailment
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The National Basketball Association fined Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman $50,000 for insulting Mormons.
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The NBA commissioner fined Dennis Rodman for bad mouthing Mormons.
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entailment
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Now the practice has its own a triple--a woman and her two men--whose child was taken away because of their unusual living arrangement.
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An unusual living arrangement led to a child being taken into custody.
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entailment
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Ways to ward off Peter Lorre in M .-- Andrea Carla Been in a Coma Since 1932 Michaels
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Andrea Carla died in 1923.
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contradiction
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To ward off increasingly strident demands from leftists, Rockefeller wanted to create businesses that would raise people's standard of living; using his own resources, he set up companies to raise cattle, grow crops, market food, develop natural resources, and build housing.
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Rockefeller ultimately failed and became known as one of the poorest businessmen in history.
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contradiction
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For the first time, the standard of living for the nation's poor (although not the very poor) is rising.
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The standard of living is rising for all people.
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neutral
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So who wins Round Two?
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It is decided there would only be one round to determine the winner.
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contradiction
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A remake of the 1957 made-for-TV musical wins praise for its African-American lead and multiracial cast, which includes Jason Alexander, Whitney Houston, and Whoopi Goldberg.
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Whoopi, Jason and Whitney all appeared in the original version.
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contradiction
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Often, it doesn't even equal two.
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It's equal to three or more
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contradiction
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I win both bets, scoring 125 samoleans.
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Thanks to the bets, I'm more than a hundred bucks richer than before.
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entailment
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There is no sign yet that the administration is tempted by mea culpa/ Forgive and Forget.
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The administration is tempted by mea culpa.
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neutral
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No wonder many hate it in France, especially for schoolgirls, who are meant to mix with others on an equal footing in all respects; and in determinedly modernized Turkey, too.
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Schoolgirls dislike France because of lecherous men.
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neutral
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Every time he turns up on the scene--and even when (as in the case of Kathleen Willey) he doesn't--people What's he doing here?
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Others often wondered what part he played in a scene, whether he turned up or not.
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entailment
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But if God has taken flight, in Gattaca and elsewhere, at least a few of his imitators are trying to save their souls.
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If God has escaped in Gattaca and other places, some of his people that imitate him are searching for redemption of their spirits.
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entailment
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We also don't know how life originates and to what extent it evolves in an orderly pattern.
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There are different beliefs on how life goes by a pattern.
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neutral
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An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations.
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The author enjoyed East Side Story, which was released from a well known publication.
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neutral
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Presidents derived their license to serve as leader-preacher from Theodore Roosevelt's remark that the presidency was a bully pulpit, a remark that did not appear in his Inaugural Address.
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Theodore Roosevelt thought that the presidency was part of a bully pulpit, hesitated to speak about it.
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neutral
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Back then, gold was $35 per ounce.
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At one time, gold was $35 per ounce.
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entailment
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For that matter, we can't compare the GIs to the Athenians of Pericles' time, the Florentines of Michelangelo's, or the Americans of Abraham Lincoln's.
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There is no good historical comparison to these GIs.
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entailment
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If loans to ski resorts, fast-food chains, and the Bolivian government paid a slightly higher return than loans to a local small business or housing complex, then they had to be the more deserving use of capital.
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A higher rate of return equates to a more deserving recipient.
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entailment
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Mossad, which employs about 1,200 people, now has difficulty competing with private-sector recruiters . Its early agents were well-educated, European-born cosmopolitans who ran the agency like an exclusive club.
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Mossad is the biggest intelligence agency in middle-Orient
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neutral
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It happened in the late 1960s, when state and local officials embarked on a campaign to encourage welfare and food-stamp use--to remove stigma and boost participation rates.
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State and local officials went on a campaign to help other people and remove the bad reputation associated with getting welfare and food stamps.
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entailment
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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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It's been hard to determine who was the winner in that wager
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entailment
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Interviewed by the British Journalism Review about the extent of his personal interference in the editorial policies of his newspapers, which include the Independent , Tony O'Reilly, chairman of the Heinz food company, said he gives his editors absolutely free rein provided they abide by some general rules.
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Tony O'Reilly was interviewed by British Journalism Review.
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entailment
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Economist George Gilder now speaks of America's cities as centers of value subtraction--parasites that suck social and economic vitality from the rest of the country.
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Mr. Gilder has a low opinion of American cities.
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entailment
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You e-mail your tale of woe--inferior products, ignorant customer service--to [email protected], and the Shopping Avenger will use his reporting skills, which have been described by some as almost supernatural in scope (and have been described by others as adequate and sort of pathetic) to extract on your behalf grudging apologies from faceless bureaucrats at Fortune 500 companies.
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The foes of the Shopping Avenger are world-famous villains.
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contradiction
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The cover story reports on new discoveries about human evolution.
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Human evolution was the focus of the cover story.
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entailment
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Judging by today's responses, the network's lineup would seem to consist of Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, and Barbara Walters, grilling Ellen DeGeneres about her lesbianism while a bare-assed Regis Philbin dispenses cash and prizes.
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Being homosexual can be a reason to be grilled by others
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entailment
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We see a worker clocking in while the narrator points to 10 million new jobs and, as the spot cuts to a Kennedyesque Clinton with children, it concludes with the phrase a better future.
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We are watching an action packed film about dinosaurs.
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contradiction
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Indeed, increasing returns have traditionally been used as arguments against free markets, for government intervention.
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Free markets would minimize returns
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contradiction
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Monica gets out first and opens the courthouse door.
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Monica is the first to open the courthouse door.
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entailment
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Vouchers need to be worth enough to afford real avenues of escape.
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Vouchers need to be enough for real avenues of escape.
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entailment
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The July 16 Today's Papers asks what it says about Hillary Clinton that she refused to comment for a USA Today story on her partnership with Madeleine Albright.
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USA Today wasn't the only newspaper that had asked Hillary for comments.
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neutral
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Consider just the Pell Grants for students who have already defaulted on past That one mistake cost $210 million.
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Pell grants have defaulted one million dollars total over time.
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contradiction
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The long Relax, dynasties haven't killed the men's game.
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The men's game killed off dynasties.
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contradiction
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Ryan just isn't the man she thought she married ...
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She thought the man she married was different.
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entailment
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If she wants to write a sketch of her pencil box, I for one will gladly read it.
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The sketch will be fun to read.
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neutral
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The amount is small for Cramer but large for the editor of Slate . TheStreet.com competes, to some extent, with Slate 's sister MSN site MoneyCentral and even, to a lesser extent, with Slate itself.
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Cramer received more than the proofreader for Slate.
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contradiction
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So World War II is avoided, millions of lives--you know, the right sort of lives--are saved, and history is transformed in ways so utopian, you'd never recognize the present.
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If World War 2 was avoided the world would be closer to this Utopian fantasy.
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neutral
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A shocking number of his recent articles are based on something he saw on television.
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A large number of his newer articles are related to something he saw on the TV.
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entailment
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He winked broadly, then gave her a wide, rakish smile that lit her soul with excitement.
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She winked broadly to light his soul with excitement.
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contradiction
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The Booker, and all the laurels, are about my past, not my future, says this ace of the apothegm.
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The Booker focused on previous successes.
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entailment
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But when the industry attempted to create , the same activists protested again, declaring the safer cigarette evil because it would encourage smokers to continue their habit.
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The safer cigarette was declared evil by the activists.
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entailment
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(Or at least, we hope to make this a tradition, and have got away with it for two summers so far.)
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This habit would be hard to mantain in the winter months
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neutral
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Winesburg, Ohio, like cyberspace, was a perfectly efficient information market.
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Winesburg, Ohio was heavily populated.
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neutral
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As a result of your conversation with her and subsequent reports that showed that she had tried to enlist the help of someone else in her lie that the President sexually harassed her, you now do not believe that what she claimed happened really happened.
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The President is being framed for sexual harassment.
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neutral
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While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good.
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Affirmative action and busing are highly endorsed among Democrats.
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neutral
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The piece notes that the 10-year survival rate for heart transplants is an astonishing 60 percent, orders of magnitude higher than it was in the '70s.
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The 10 years heart transplant survival rate improved drastically in the last 50 years
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entailment
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He says, Who are these people?
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Everyone he sees is a familiar face,
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contradiction
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We have industrialized our food systems, and continue to do so, something which classic economics says is not possible, since economies of scale do not easily apply to food production.
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Classic economists thought it was easy to attain high scale food production.
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contradiction
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I wind up doing many things alone on weekends and in the evenings because she always has plans with the girls.
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I end up drinking and watching reruns of old football games by myself.
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neutral
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Drug-policy experts and social scientists seem to agree that social and cultural factors are driving up teen drug use.
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Drug-policy experts and social scientists appear to be in agreeance about social and cultural factors being the driving force behind the rise in teen drug use.
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entailment
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Tudjman, who is fond of Il Duce-type uniforms, rigged the parliamentary elections so that his nationalist party, HDZ, could not lose.
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Tudjman rigged the elections to favor HDZ, his party.
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entailment
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The Post reminds readers of what else she said (Hillary's words are in italics):
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Hillary is preparing to apologize for her remarks.
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neutral
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Can I, should I, even, expect her to change?
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The author is not sure if she will change.
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entailment
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The reason for their A national test could be embarrassing and disprove claims of improvement based on other, less-than-neutral testing regimes.
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Their score on the national test could be due to testing regimes that were biased.
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entailment
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A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.
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Traditional direct mail solicitation carries with it legal reassurances that e-mail doesn't have.
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entailment
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The University of Chicago has chosen a new president--but the debate over the ongoing shake-up at the school continues.
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There is much discussion over the current shake-up at school.
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entailment
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They cut taxes, they helped balance the budget, and they're putting people on welfare back to work.
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Their economic policies led to budget reform while cutting taxes and welfare reforms.
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entailment
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Massachusetts' highest court decided that British au pair Louise Woodward will not go back to jail.
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The state decided the au pair needed more punishment.
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contradiction
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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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When the Clinton story broke about his affairs with Jones and Flowers, the bias media kept him by protected,
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entailment
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But none of these revelations improves the case that Hollywood Communism was a significant threat to democracy.
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The new revelations actually showed Hollywood Communism as less prevelant than previously thought.
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neutral
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All this time, the land for the library has sat undisturbed, covered with tall weeds and empty buildings, its intended purpose marked only by a banner that has grown progressively more tattered.
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The library was populated at one point.
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entailment
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The result is, therefore, not mammary-specific, but more general.
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The result is considered tested by many people.
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neutral
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All this amounts to clear and convincing proof of Jones' allegation--which has never been specifically denied by the president personally or by his lawyer Robert Bennett--that then-governor Clinton sent a state trooper to interrupt a state employee's performance of her job and bring her to his hotel room.
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The president and his lawyer vehemently denied the allegations when first brought up by Jones.
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contradiction
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Yes, our parents had many of the same sexual traumas we did but, no, we don't want to hear about them in detail.
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Parents are immune from venereal diseases
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contradiction
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If I really own my modem, then I must have an unqualified right to dial up anywhere, any time, and suck in whatever is out there to be sucked.
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At the drop of a hat, I must have an unqualified right to dial up anywhere, suck in whatever is out there to be sucked, if I really own my modem.
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entailment
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Instead, they looked the other way.
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The other way was looked at.
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entailment
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This is the third Democrats have overlooked the legal question in the middle.
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The Democrats were more then willing to explain the legal question in the middle.
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contradiction
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What Ledbetter misses is that PBS's time--if it ever had one--has come and gone.
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The TV station had its fifteen minutes of fame.
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entailment
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The administration's spin is that demands and conditions are the opposite of negotiation.
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The administration accepts that conditions are necessary for negotiation.
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contradiction
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This column, as my first in the Strange Bed, is free of history.
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There is no historical mentions in this column.
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entailment
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Intent on not striking out, he bats pitch after pitch into foul territory.
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With the game on the line, he swings big hoping to drive everyone home.
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contradiction
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Thurmond is so old that it's considered bad form to criticize his sorry record or dredge up his racist past.
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Thurmond is a really old racist.
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entailment
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Reporters aren't interested in the clash of ideas.
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The opposing ideas aren't of any interest to the reporters.
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entailment
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He couldn't free himself, of course, not from the Kennedys, not from anyone.
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He set himself free from everyone.
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contradiction
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Vouchers, they argue, are simply a guise for the edu-welfare system to cast its net over several million more families and children.
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Vouchers have been used correctly every time.
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neutral
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When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.
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Wintour was the editor of British Vogue.
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entailment
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (October Films).
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The film was seen by lots of people.
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neutral
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They concluded it was caused by the driver's loss of control.
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The driver almost kept control.
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neutral
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He's in his own league.
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His skills are different from the ones of the others
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entailment
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The commander in chief has made a commitment on behalf of the United States, and the United States must honor that commitment.
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The United States stands behind what the commander in chief commits to on its behalf.
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entailment
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but made mother smoke it up just in case,
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The dad smoke it up
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contradiction
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He telegraphs the ending--you know the Limey will somehow be at the root of his daughter's death--but it's still an emotional wow.
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It takes place in 1855.
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neutral
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If car insurance were a tax-free benefit, it wouldn't be surprising to find employers picking low-cost insurers who make you visit preferred mechanics and skimp on coverage for Land Rovers and minivans.
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The idea of car insurance as a tax-free benefit has been around forever.
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contradiction
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If not, stadium seating will always be accessible to the average fan.
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The stadium seating is not accessible if the fan is average.
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contradiction
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I >n cases labeled as serious physical abuse, the reported injury could be mental or emotional.
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Physical abuse can generate different kind of injuries
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entailment
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