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But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake.
He makes it clear that buying on margin results in a minor loss.
contradiction
The key points of their critique of The Bell Curve are as
These are the main points of their critique of The Bell Curve.
entailment
Jesse Ventura to obstruct Pat Buchanan's run for the Reform Party nomination.
Pat is not running for nomination.
contradiction
The Vermont Supreme Court granted gays greater partnership rights.
Gay people have more rights now thanks to the Vermont Supreme Court.
entailment
He's in his own league.
He's the best in his field
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They're political.
They vote in every election.
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Remember when he looked us in the eye?
He wanted to make eye contact to connect to the author.
entailment
But where would those two applicants have ranked if blacks had not been enslaved and discriminated against?
The color of ones skin holds zilch influence over ranking.
contradiction
Newsweek 's cover package compares Watergate and Flytrap.
Watergate and Flytrap are comparable
entailment
But the overall thrust of the incarceration section of the 1994 edition is that too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.
In their 1994 edition, the author claimed many criminals have avoided jail sentences,
entailment
We're talking about president of the United States.
The person we are referencing was elected by the electoral college.
entailment
To News Quiz participants, investigation is not theological (angels?)
Investigation, is most certainly theological.
contradiction
European national leaders know they've got to tackle their deficits, but none of them wants the heat for cutting featherbedding or generous social-payment systems.
Tackling deficits is a challenge for European leaders.
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The substantive issue at stake is hard news vs. soft Each network is accusing the others of going soft in pursuit of ratings.
Each network is probably right in accusing the other networks of peddling soft news.
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Bombing the crap out of Third World countries and aspirin factories when you need a quick pick-me-up at the polls.
Referencing attacks on poor countries and acetylsalicylic acid factories is detrimental at the polls.
contradiction
If you can find a way to deal with and improve their relationship, what she calls him will become a moot point.
Whatever she calls him, will become irrelevant, if they can improve their relationship
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That's what I remember about Woodstock.
People forgot everything about Woodstock
contradiction
I now have my own literary oeuvre . This entitles me to certain privileges, such as employing foreign words in my writings (see previous sentence) and living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
I live on the upper west side of Manhattan, and use foreign words in my writings.
entailment
If Darth Vader had built C-3PO as a young man, how come he never paid much attention to him in the other movies--and vice versa?
The lack of interaction between the two characters throughout the saga casts doubt onto the robot's alleged origin.
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The news that I am laying waste to an entire generation of men exceeds my greatest ambition in this regard.
The reports about me having ruined the lives of a great deal of men, has caused me to spend time to myself, contemplating the truth about this matter.
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And so all the paradoxes of thrift, widow's cruses, and so on become irrelevant.
Certain paradoxes may become irrelevant as times change.
neutral
Paste for Greenies
The paste is for the Greenies.
entailment
PointCast has succeeded so far with a mass-market approach--relatively few news sources, sorted into relatively few buckets.
PointCast uses many news sources to succeed.
contradiction
So read Slate . A lot.
Reading Slate can help with our daily life
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When reality interfered (Brenda apparently did not go through with a marriage to an immigrant in search of a green card for $10,000, as she does on-screen), Barker brushed the truth aside as immaterial, following her up the steps of City Hall in her wedding dress because it was true to her character.
All the marriages happen only for love
contradiction
His signature pictures--of adolescent girls exhibiting their genitalia--contain most of this show's electricity (John Updike, the New York Review of Books ). Several critics observe that Schiele can only do nudes.
Critics Believed Schiele could only do nudes.
entailment
Publishers regularly write bonuses into contracts to factor in the possibility that a book will makes the Times list.
If a book makes the Times list, it will often earn the author a bonus.
entailment
First, they should deliver maximum moral benefit at minimum practical cost.
Minimum practical cost would be in the low hundreds for U.S. citizens.
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sang Paul Lynde (and recalls Andrew Milner--you know, in his quiz response; he wasn't actually in the movie) in Bye Bye Birdie 's show-stopping musical number, Kids, a look at teen-age life every bit as insightful as anything on the WB (if you can accept Paul Lynde as Ann-Margret's father).
Paul Lynde is a singer.
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So--contrary to what we're told by orthodox economic theory--two individuals with exactly the same preferences and exactly the same opportunities can adopt dramatically different attitudes toward saving.
Orthodox economic theory is not always correct.
entailment
When they arrived there, they met some neighbors from home who told them about a sign saying NO CANADIANS.
Neighbors told them about a NO CANADIANS sign when they arrived.
entailment
Drew said there would then be an entire week to write off Forbes between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire.
There are seven days between the Iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary.
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Slate BiasServer TM applies this concept to the magazine You'll register your views just once, and Slate will thereafter recognize your browser and serve up opinion and analysis that reconfirm your prejudices.
After having registered your views with Slate BiasServer, you'll learn a great deal about the prejudices you hold, which will allow you to assess and then correct the behaviors that you don't like about yourself.
neutral
He was tall, charismatic, with piercing blue eyes that made Monica weak inside--and, best of all, he was the most powerful man on Earth!
His general demeanor caused Monica to be repelled by him
contradiction
For a turnaround to be real, the company has to become not merely profitable but also positioned for steady growth.
The company will not succeed if they are not following the examples of other companies and their successes.
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So, they compensate with vocabulary, animating their play with exaggerated violence and tough talk, smashing, kicking, and zapping the imaginary bad guys.
They're compensating by acting like tough guys.
entailment
The 'Russian miracle,' that of always avoiding catastrophes at the last moment, remains, however, fragile--more and more fragile, it said.
The ability of preventing serious problems in the last moment has been called "Russian miracle"
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An editorial from the Chinese Xinhua news agency vilified Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui for venturing down a dead alley and swimming against the historical tide of unification.
The Chinese Xinhua editorial trashed Taiwan policy.
entailment
As Jodie T. Allen in Slate in 1997, a primary function of any disaster is to funnel pork to important states.
In addition, other meat products are moved to these same states.
neutral
Do it too late and you seem, actually it's glib and insincere again.
If it's done late, it seems very sincere.
contradiction
You don't have to teach Rik Smits how to make post moves.
Rik Smits needs serious help learning some post moves.
contradiction
Unlike the 1980s, when the economy's leading figures often seemed to be people like Michael Milken and Boone Pickens, who were speculators in that classic populist sense of the word, the people who get the most attention and respect today are almost all businessmen who spend their time making things, not playing with other people's Bill Gates, Michael Dell, or whoever.
A definite shift has been noted in who the economy's leading figures are from the 1980s.
entailment
Consequently, the Army can eliminate its weakest candidates--about one-half of blacks and one-third of whites--and still have a large number of blacks--about one-third of the Army.
Often the Army can get rid of it's weakest candidates and still have many blacks,
neutral
The preceding images are not from Beyond Impressionism (online reproduction of art from the Degas exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is forbidden.
Copying art gives you a harsh fine and prison sentence.
neutral
If you missed the link to the sidebar, click .
The link is barely visible on the page.
neutral
He misses some of the lightness and agility demanded by florid passages.
He thought about the agility needed by the passages.
entailment
Reverse Triangulation: How Clinton's immoderation helps the Democrats look moderate.
Clinton doesn't want to ruin the Democrats' moderate image.
entailment
Youth may be wasted on the young, but it's not wasted on the president.
Youth is wasted just as much on presidents as on the young.
contradiction
A story says that there is still virtually no evidence linking the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant bombed by the United States last year to chemical weapons production or terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
A story reports that no evidence has been found that proves a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant had ties to chemical weapons production or Osama Bin Laden.
entailment
Some people insist they don't know what they think until they hear what they say.
Speaking out loud can lead people to answering what they believe in.
entailment
The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees.
The WP refrained from publishing the article.
contradiction
But if his campaign really prospers and he has to explain what he believes, he'll have a hard time holding that coalition together.
It will be tough for him to keep the group together if he shares what he actually believes.
entailment
Dissatisfied with the chump change earned by selling untaxed cigarettes and fireworks, the Indians have opened gambling casinos on reservations all over the state.
The state bans all casinos.
contradiction
It sketches out a pattern of Clinton aides attempting to convince multiple Clinton alleged paramours (Dolly Kyle Browning, Monica Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey) to keep silent.
Clinton was a loyal and devoted husband
contradiction
America rescued him from minor cult status and gave him to the world (at a not-insignificant profit).
America kept him in secret because they found it impossible to profit from him.
contradiction
But the real hope for ending the AIDS epidemic is not expensive drug therapies.
The hope for ending the AIDS epidemic relies on spending an exorbitant amount on drugs.
contradiction
Then his pathetic self-loathing might have been exorcised.
He has become more confident in himself.
neutral
Human nature puts Clinton at a disadvantage in this debate.
The man receives good fortune from human nature.
contradiction
This was a note K used to strike a lot in the 1980s, and he's glad he doesn't have to strike it anymore.
Peopl think K was the best at hitting this note.
neutral
Recognizing that the Internet effectively wipes out national borders, and fearing that the development of new technologies may be impeded by inconsistent tax policies, the federal government has been studying the issue of international tariffs on Internet transactions.
The government cares very little about the internet business world.
contradiction
The goal shouldn't be to make the desert bloom.
Making the desert bloom isn't the goal.
entailment
Almost instantly, kids in each group formed bonds of loyalty and group identification.
Multiple groups of kids mingled.
entailment
If the critics were interested in remedying the lotteries, they'd have the states repeal their monopolies on these games and let the market compete away the excess profits.
There are no critics of the lotteries.
contradiction
Clinton claims to have known nothing about the Chinese plans.
Clinton claims the Chinese plans.
contradiction
It's impossible to arrive at any general conclusions about what sorts of instruments are right for Beethoven's keyboard music.
Beethoven did not play any musical instruments.
contradiction
America rescued him from minor cult status and gave him to the world (at a not-insignificant profit).
He was better off with minor cult status.
neutral
Billy married Chynna Phillips of the pop group Wilson Phillips, after flings with Madonna and Jennifer Grey.
Chynna Phillips married Billy.
entailment
(Watch previews and join The Odyssey chat on NBC's site.)
NBC site offers chat functionalities
entailment
But it is probably true that the quality of politics in America has suffered from the erosion of public trust in institutions that used to act, to at least some degree, as watchdogs.
The quality of American politics has gotten worse over the past decade.
neutral
A number of Korean businesses went bankrupt, either because of dishonest practices or because the possible Korean share of world markets for some products, like automobiles, had been overestimated.
The exact cause of the numerous cases of bankruptcy is not known.
entailment
It's Sunday, what channel is this?
They don't know what the channel is on Sunday.
entailment
4. Mr. Bork says that when Microsoft also tried to hire him, he gave the company's lawyer a hearing, with the understanding that if he convinced me, I would simply stay out of the case.
He was wanting to get in the case
contradiction
Not all the way--he has not yet succeeded in building a durable majority on the court.
He has yet to build a durable majority on the court, although he has been trying for 10 years.
neutral
The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.
The newspaper believes that the decision was important to the direction of the strike.
entailment
Based on this assessment, NATO has kept ground forces out of Kosovo, allowing atrocities to continue, and has kept its planes high above Serbian anti-aircraft batteries, limiting our pilots' ability to distinguish refugees from Serb forces on the ground.
NATO kept its planes out of Kosovo.
contradiction
In short, the place made Bosch look like a Methodist picnic.
The place can never be compared to a Methodist gathering at all.
contradiction
Videotape of her answers will be shown to the Arkansas Whitewater grand jury, which will disband May 7. Pundits played up the tension between Starr and the first lady (since she recently called him a politically motivated prosecutor who is allied with the right-wing opponents of my husband) and debated whether he will indict her.
While reporters made the relationship between the First Lady and Starr seem worse, it was, in fact, not good to begin with.
neutral
While Podhoretz may be correct in his opinion of Al Sharpton, his comments regarding Sharpton and Jesse Jackson possess a thinly disguised undertone of As he castigates white liberals for assuming that Negroes could do no wrong, his discussion of Sharpton's actions seem to say, Well, what can you expect?
It's possible that Podhoretz's opinion on Al Sharpton is correct.
entailment
So the Bill Clinton paradox--his reckless pursuit of sex and his timid clinging to office--is indeed no paradox.
Bill Clinton had an extramaritial affair while in office.
entailment
It depends on how you score it.
You score it.
entailment
Individuals' claims to their wealth and income must of course be balanced by the need to finance governmental activities, no matter how few and inconsequential they may be.
Individual claims trump the financing of government activities.
contradiction
But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage.
Weddings of same sex couples were not spoken of by Clinton or Birch.
entailment
Time 's excuse to put John Travolta on the the release of the movie Primary Colors . Travolta stars as the Bill Clinton character, and Time says it's a believable portrait of the president, one that includes all his lecherousness and charm.
Time praises the presidential portrait as superior.
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Founding editor = permanent voice in growth of Wired ! Move forward together!
Founding editors are unrelated to having a voice in Wired's growth.
contradiction
After Democrats lost the House, the NEA budget was cut in half.
The NEA had its funding increased once the Republicans gained House majority.
contradiction
Jesse Helms could not have demonized homosexuality more effectively--which, of course, is why he was pleased to draw public attention to the pictures.
Jessie Helms was equally hated by others.
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So much for McCain's war against cynicism.
McCain had always embraced the cynicism.
contradiction
His career took the shape of a palindrome.
His career kept booming and he got many promotions
contradiction
Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies and don't cuss out their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job with guaranteed wages for life.
If federal civilian employees don't commit felonies and cuss at their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job and wages for life.
entailment
Most people Prudie has observed tipping taxi drivers tack on a couple of bucks, no matter what the meter.
Most people Prudie observed said thank you to their taxi driver.
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While King vacillated, Malcolm X seized the nation's attention with his calls for retribution, tempting blacks weary of King's nonviolence and sending whites into a panic.
Malcolm X and King had very different modus operandi.
entailment
The cover article urges the GOP and the Christian right to compromise.
The cover article adds more fuel to the flames by instigating further disharmony.
contradiction
When they watched these films in the presence of an authority figure, however, the Americans' facial expressions were essentially the same as when they watched the films alone, whereas the Japanese showed much less negative affect, smiled sometimes, and actually masked negative emotion with smiling behavior.
The Japanese audience more readily masked their emotion when in the presence of an authority figure.
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They show Ellison exploring black folklore as a source for black fiction, using flight, for example, as a metaphor for escape--a common trope among slaves who imagined themselves able to fly back to Africa.
Ellison wrote only about whites.
contradiction
An article argues that liberals should oppose the National Endowment for the Arts on the grounds that art does not need federal subsidies.
The article was from a well known publisher.
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We've had to reach out to retirees, college students, and civic types, says O'Brien.
O'Brien had to reach out to military and secret services as well
contradiction
The distinction blurs a bit in Fantastic Voyage, the movie where Raquel Welch was part of a medical team shrunk to microscopic size and injected into the body of some guy with a brain tumor.
Raquel Welch was not featured in Fantastic Voyage.
contradiction
Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste.
Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste have all a negative meaning
entailment
Then, when the groups learned of one another's existence, the boys immediately drew lines in the sand.
The boys did not like each other very much.
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Crest is the standard here, while Colgate products tend toward runniness.
Colgate products are the most superior toothpaste as they have the best consistency and texture.
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