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As incomes rise, the young farmer buys a truck to replace his father's trusty donkey, or he gives up farming altogether to open a bar or car-rental office. | The young farmer may quit the farming business as incomes increase. | The young farmer buys another donkey to mate with his father's. |
um i mean i can still remember going going to the store and getting a pint of milk a pound of butter and a loaf of bread and getting change back from my pound | I can recall visiting the market and buying milk. | I'm too hungover to remember anything about anything. |
you know especially i would say the receivers when they're in the air and they get tackled | The receivers get tackled when they are in the air. | The receivers never get tackled when they go to the air. |
yeah well have a church state softball leagues so they're not all boys and | A church softball league would include girls. | The church softball league only includes girls. |
News Quiz participants scorn not just electronic greeting cards, but all greeting cards as prepackaged expressions of sentiment for the emotionally illiterate. | Electronic greetings cards are criticised by news quiz participants. | Electronic greetings cards are welcomed by news quiz participants. |
Waterwheels have been operating in the Murcia region for over a thousand years. | Waterwheels have been in use in the Murcia region for over a millennium. | Waterwheels have recently been introduced to the Murcia region. |
Let us reconstruct. | We shall rebuild. | Let us demolish. |
9 , is not one of Beethoven's more inspired creations. | 9, is not Beethoven's most inspired creation. | 9, is Beethoven's most inspired creation |
A sidebar reports that in the early '90s the CIA nixed a plot by Milosevic's inner circle to overthrow the dictator. | It was reported that CIA prevented a plot to depose Milosevic in 1990s. | CIA plotted against Milosevic in early 1990s, which resulted in the downfall of the dictator. |
It's an excellent focal point, giving new visitors an easy reference to establish their location; it's a spectacular vantage point for many of the city's great landmarks; and its bridges and quays offer history, entertainment, shopping and exercise. | Many landmarks can be seen from this location. | This place is easy to get lost in, it's very out of the way. |
Much evidence of a major Carib Indian settlement has been unearthed in this region. | There is a lot of evidence that the indian settlement was in this spot. | We don't have any evidence of Indians living here. |
When researchers describe case studies as using qualitative data, they usually mean the thick description. | Qualitative data means the thick description of case studies. | Qualitative data involves numbers. |
The President's national homeland security strategy does provide for a proposed definition of homeland security, which should help the government to more effectively administer, fund and coordinate activities both inside and outside a new department and to ensure that all parties are focused on the same goals and objectives, results and outcomes. | Homeland security is defined by the national homeland security strategy. | The homeland security is not important, it doesn't help the president. |
The villages have been lovingly restored. | Endearing repair was applied to the village. | Fixing the village is a task no one has completed yet. |
vie for tourist dollars as well. | They want tourists dollars too. | Tourist money is no good to them. |
and um i know my husband now we go vote every time i don't care how small the ballot is i mean if there's one thing if there's one issue because the way i feel is if i don't vote then i don't have any reason to gripe | My husband and I go to vote every time, no matter for what. | MY husband and I never vote, we don't see a point. |
I saw what I thought to be a rock on the horizon but before I came anywhere near it, I fell facing the red sun and knew it would take me. | The sun was red and bright in the sky. | The moon was high in the sky. |
you know drugs drugs and everything else and they talk about how soon they start that and that scares me | People talk about doing drugs | People never talk about things like drugs. |
and that that makes a lot of difference in those of us that live in warm climates | It makes a difference when you live in a warm place. | Weather doesn't affect much. |
So the review has grown a large bureaucracy designed to prevent any unfairness. | The review has grown larger so that it remains fair | The review will remain unfair |
Whether castigating them on the silver screen, between the lines of pulpy, true-crime narratives, or in the jokes told around the proverbial water cooler, attorneys have been on the receiving end of many a hackneyed punch line. | Many jokes are told about attorneys. | Attorneys are always treated seriously. |
John Erlenborn has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center since 1994 and member of the Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors since 1996. | John Erlenborn is both a professor and a member of the Legal Services Corporation Board of Directors. | John Erlenborn is an average man who works for a gas station and is a member of AA. |
they know that they've proven that um yet their saying well we're putting such low doses in there that well you don't have to worry about dying from it the problem is that i've that i've read books that | They say you don't have to worry about dying because of the low doses. | People are dying from the high doses that they are using. |
Pieces come as small as a ring holder or olive bowl to huge garden pieces that would have to be shipped back home. | Some of the pieces may have to be shipped back home. | None of the pieces are larger than a wedding ring. |
i bet now isn't that isn't that a Swedish car | I think that is a Swedish car. | I know that is a Russian car. |
It also entails being open to reading and respecting ideas one disagrees with. | It's required to be open-minded, respectful and engaged in reading. | It has nothing to do with being polite. |
After that date her memory is as good as yours or mine." | The person they are speaking about has good memory. | The person they are speaking about has poor memory. |
For example in figure 4.1, although federal government saving increased as a share of GDP by 5.5 percentage points from 1990 to 2000, net national saving increased by only 1.1 percentage points because private saving as a share of GDP decreased by 4.9 percentage points over the same period. | Overall savings increased by 5.5% during 1990 through 2000 but this does not hold up when examining private savings which lost ground during the same period. | Over the period from 1990 to 2000 individual savings rose by a tremendous 100%. |
The dialogue moves ahead--there are great gobs of exposition--but the images continually double to Stamp and Lesley Ann Warren, as his daughter's acting teacher, simply gazing at each other; or to Stamp sitting on a plane, remembering his daughter as a girl on the beach, the lens of his home movie camera creating an eerily bright--almost supernatural--spot that dances over her face. | The dialogue contains a large amount of exposition. | The dialogue contains almost zero exposition. |
It was able to landscape a magnificent park, Lake Gardens, from an tin mine abandoned in 1890, then owned by Chung Keng Kwee. | The tin mine was converted to a magnificent park | The tin mine is still in operation. |
In 1972, the 53-year-old Salinger wrote the notorious fan letter to the 18-year-old Joyce Maynard, who had just written a New York Times Magazine cover story about herself. | Salinger wrote the notorious fan letter to Joyce. | Salinger did not write any fan letter to Joyce. |
she drives and everything she she's perfectly healthy uh | She's perfectly healthy and she drives. | She's very unhealthy and isn't able to drive. |
The students who the year before had marched and chanted and proclaimed it is forbidden to forbid had been arguing for liberation of the oppressed of virtually every kind, and when it comes to the sexually oppressed, Berman says, the last two decades can be seen as a victory. | They have seen the last two decades as being victorious. | They were defeated after fighting for two decades. |
Except that unique animals might have landed during the night. | During the night some unique animals may have made a landing. | During the night several ordinary animals may have possibly landed. |
Though one of Madrid's top sights, many visitors still miss it. | People still overlook it, although it's one of Madrid's top sites. | It get's missed because it is not any of Madrid's top sites. |
From here it's only a short walk to the Mosque of al-Hakim and Bab El-Futah set in a remaining section of the original city wall. | The mosque is just a short walk away to the remaining section. | The original city wall was completely destroyed in World War II. |
Overrating Bob Dylan's unpublished fragments probably won't do any damage to his real achievement. | Bob Dylan had unfinished work that was never published. | The fact Bob Dylan had unfinished work tarnished his reputation in the end. |
and effectively respond to those needs. | and respond to those needs in an effective manner. | those needs do not require a response. |
um and there i think that even though i'm on an eighty eighty eight at home that the speed is really quite adequate uh and and i consequently don't even really notice uh the the difference between the the fast machine and and the eighty eighty eight | I use both a fast machine and an eighty eighty eight. | I only enjoy using the fast computer. |
it's usually the television that we see nowadays seems like that it's it it doesn't even have some of the underlying uh things to it you know that maybe the old movies and things had you know the underlying themes and stuff that maybe you had to kind of figure out or you know like with Hitchcock or something where you're you're you're expecting something or | Older movies had themes that were not so obvious. | Classic movies never had hidden themes. |
Today its lawns, gardens and promenades are the most convenient and enjoyable place for many Madrilellos to take a family outing . | Many Madrillellos find it's lawns and gardens an enjoyable place to take their family. | Madrilellos avoid the gardens and lawns altogether, leaving them as tourist traps. |
Part of the decline may have been due to general market conditions, but it's doubtful that all of it was. | The decline is a result partially of market conditions. | The decline can be blamed only on the market. |
uh racial i think or like you say maybe communication of knowing that hey up in other English colonies or previous English colonies everything is equal and yet down there it's not you know | Other English colonies have things equal. | Nothing was equal or fair in English colonies. |
It's the animal house! | The animal house is exciting! | The animal house is boring. |
Other tax incentives encourage college and other postsecondary education. | Other tax incentives encourage college and other postsecondary education. | Other tax incentives discourage college and other postsecondary education. |
from that state um-hum um-hum yeah right i'm going to inject a little side anecdote for you back to the to the uh uh the main topic here because it it you might be interested in this uh you know i i've | You might be interested in this story. | You don't want to hear about that. |
(Incidentally, half of the 1992 donations failed, when first disclosed to the FEC, to reveal that the source was a student.) | Incidentally, when first disclosed to the FEC, to reveal that the source was a student, halfo f the 1992 donations failed. | None of the 1992 donations failed, since it has been revelaed that the source was a philantrhopist millionaire. |
He winked knowingly to his own self in four years time. | He winked to himself. | He was solemn. |
Riggs regrets that retired Tulsa attorney John Athens, a champion of legal aid, did not live to see how much the money has meant. | Riggs wanted John Athens to see the effects of the money. | John Athens saw how much the money meant. |
or classes of payments from this prohibition. | It was classes based on the payments. | It dealt with refunds only. |
i have no idea i know they're they're engineered very well but i would have a hard time justifying spending that kind of money on any car | It would be difficult for me to justify paying for an expensive car, even if they're engineered very well. | I'll spend as much money as needed for a top of the line car. |
McKay and his colleagues do not accuse the original authors of fraud, speculate on how their data-tuning took place, or ask whether the tuning was consciously done. | The original authors might have intentionally manipulated the data. | McKay and his colleagues have publicly sued the authors of tuning data. |
i mean it's not as vast a country as like you know where you people are from because i lived in Abilene for a little while | It is not quite as vast a country as you have. | I have never been to Abilene. |
We would be obliged to give evidence at any army hearing, Captain. | There are army hearings. | There are no army hearings. |
Challenges to Capital Flows. | Capital flows are subject to challenges. | Capital flows are fixed and cannot face challenges. |
I will not describe to you the special apparatus, dusting powder, etc., which I used. | I won't explain the amazing methods I used! | I'll tell you everything you want to know, just please don't tickle me to death. |
Red and yellow flames. | There were red and yellow flames. | The flames burned blue. |
and they just didn't do anything did they they're just kind of sitting there | They are just sitting there doing nothing at all. | They were pretty proactive, and they tried a few different things. |
Members stated that the first meetings discussed broad subjects that individuals were concerned about or equally affected by, such as computer forensics. | The first meetings talked about subjects the individuals were worried about. | The first meetings talked about subjects the individuals were interested in. |
a little soy sauce and uh some uh seasoned salt mix all that up together and put it on the steak | mix up soy sauce and seasoned salt then put it on the steak | Do not season your steaks. |
Buddha never claimed to be divine and in fact emphasized that all men could by their own efforts follow his path to enlightenment and the blissful state of nirvana, release from the cycle of repeated births and deaths. | Nirvana is a state that Buddha sad all men reach by following his path. | Buddha made it clear that his divinity offered Nirvana to all men. |
The center has been staffed by GSA's most senior and competent project managers to serve two | GSA's most competent project managers make up some of the staff at the center. | The only staff the center has are the newest and least intelligent project managers. |
They actually seem to play because they love their game. | They seem to play because of their love of the game. | They seem to play not because of their love of the game. |
because i i just don't have that discipline with children that uh you need for them to learn | Because I don't know how to get children to obey me. | Because I am good at making children do homework. |
well how did you get a recipe for pudding on your own | How did you get a recipe for pudding? | I know you haven't cooked pudding in your life. |
and there's some freebies out there are you should put ten to fifteen percent of your monthly bring home in some sort of savings account that being money market uh bonds coda mat savings uh | They require ten to fifteen percent of your salary to be put in the savings account. | You have to put half of your salary in a savings account. |
what you see is what you get editor for almost all of my word processing so i have not although i have access at home to things like Works and WordPerfect uh but i i do not obviously notice it i i think the thing that surprises me most when i change work to home environment is the cursor speed and after i if initially get over the uh the cursor speed in the sense of moving linearly across the screen uh as opposed to tabbing | I use some word processors at home. | I don't use word processors. |
He'd made his choice without hesitation: the colt Shiloh, the mare Shadow, and she bred to Storm Cloud for what should be a prize foal. | He chose what horses he wanted | He just couldn't decide. |
Two of my brothers still smoke, although both would press the magic button and quit tomorrow if they could. | Two of my brothers still smoke even though they don't want to. | My brothers love to smoke and would never quit. |
T he fertile Nile Valley has supported human life for over 8,000 years. | The Nile Valley has supported human life for over 8,000 years. | The Nile Valley is long thought to be an untamable landscape, unfit for human habitation. |
They reached at length a small dilapidated square. | They got to a small, ruined square. | The ruins was very large. |
we uh you know we're not going to get this budget isn't going to make us rich but it is going to prevent us from going into poverty uh but | The budget isn't going to make us rich, but it is going to prevent us from falling into poverty. | We are going to get this budget and will all become rich. |
Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Balkans remain volatile. | There is volatility in the Balkans. | The Balkans are a stable region. |
The story of the Western discovery of Macau begins in 1513 when Portuguese explorer, Jorge Alvares, reached the south coast of China. | The West discovered Macau in 1513, led by Jorge Alvares. | Jorge Alvarez has never set foot in Macau. |
How many were there? | What was the exact number of them? | I know exactly how many there were. |
The Great Green Tax Shift--a shift away from taxes on employment and income toward taxes on pollution and other negative externalities--has everything going for it. | To make a shift away from taxes on employment and income was a part of the Great Green Tax Shift. | Having nothing going for it was the Great Green Tax Shift. |
The stretch of Colorado Boulevard nearby forms the heart of Old Town Pasadena. | The middle of Old Town Pasadena is located on that stretch of Colorado Boulevard. | The nearby section of Colorado Boulevard runs through the desert. |
are like magic tricks, says the New York Times ' Michael Kimmelman. | Michael Kimmelman works for the New York Times. | Michael Kimmelman has never likened anything to a magic trick. |
The Palazzo Pubblico's ground floor houses the offices of the town hall, but its upstairs chambers, frescoed by the city's foremost artists, have been transformed into a Museo Civico (municipal museum). | The town hall's offices are located on the ground floor of the Palazzo Pubblico. | The Municipal museum is situated in a building across the street from the Palazzo Pubblico. |
for me any time i needed extra help any time of the day | I could get help any time I needed it. | I could never get any help. |
This organization proved helpful in ensuring that reasons why a site showed up as an outlier for a given theme could be discussed by someone who knew the site as a whole. | There was help from an organization to make sure that a person knowledgeable about a site could talk about it. | The organization wasn't at all useful, the person who knew the site couldn't even speak about it. |
EPA has prepared both a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the benefits and costs of the rule in the Regulatory Impact Analysis. | The EPA has prepared assessments of the benefits and costs associated with the Regulatory Impact Analysis. | The EPA does not assess any benefits for any rules. |
18 See the description of this proceeding in the Appendix. | The description is in the appendix. | The appendix is missing a description of the proceeding. |
In his third vision Jon saw Adrin moving east until he saw the flank of the riders. | Jon had many visions, his third one of Adrin moving east until he spotted the riders. | Adrin had a vision of Jon and Sophia together, hanging out with their friends rather than practicing their battle stance. |
workout as much but jazzercise is what it's it's so much fun that you forget you're exercising you know aerobics you don't forget | With jazzercise, you forget you're even exercising. | No matter what exercise I am doing, I always am having fun! |
They hire individuals to act as leaders, teachers and resources in this arena. | They hire people for educational purposes. | All individuals must be certified in the position for which they are applying. |
I tried. | I did my best. | I didn't really put any effort into it. |
During LSC's 1996 competition, the service area of one of these programs was awarded to an adjacent program. | The service belonged to a different program during the competition. | The service area can't be awarded to anyone. |
It ended in my being sent to a sanatorium at Bournemouth. | When I went to a sanatorium, it ended. | It began when I was sent to a library in Bournemouth. |
Instead, on May 16, the Vice Presidentas Counsel sent GAO a letter questioning the appropriateness of GAOas review, expressing reluctance to supply the information requested and asking for a statement of GAOas legal authority to conduct the review. | The Vice President's Counsel wrote a letter to GAO. | The Vice President's Counsel refused to communicate with GAO. |
Most folks have a pretty clear idea of how much pleasure they'll get from their brother's smiles or a few days of sand and surf. | Most people can imagine the amount of joy they will show from a brother's grin. | No one has an idea of how good it will feel to get a smile from their sibling. |
Democratic donor Nathan Landow, accused of trying to silence Willey's testimony against Clinton, may in fact have been the target of Willey's romantic advances--an easy mark for a calculating gold digger. | Nathan Landow may have been the victim of Willey's romantic advances. | Nathan Landow is accused of trying to get Willey to testify against Clinton. |
In summer, kids and lovers rent rowboats and paddle about the small lake in the center of the park. | Rowboats were available for rent. | Kids purchased rowboats in the spring. |
In a magical space looking out over the sea, the beautifully sculpted columns of the cloister create a perfect framework of grace and delicacy for a moment's meditation. | The columns make a flawless framework for a moment to sit back and relax. | The space looking out over the sea is quite drab, making it hard to relax. |
In May, Vajpayee announced the successful completion of nuclear tests, which, although touted by the Indians as a sign of their sovereignty, may complicate India's relations with its neighbors and the West. | India's successful nuclear tests were a source of pride for Indians. | India has never completed any successful nuclear tests. |
Welcome to the world, Frank Sinatra Farrow. | Frank Sinatra Farrow, greetings to the world. | Welcome to Vegas, Mr. Sinatra. |
None of the above? | Not any of the above? | One of the above? |
An' th' Old Man took him a crease 'crost th' ribs that made him bleed like a stuck pig. | The Old Man made him bleed like a stuck pig. | The Old Man ignored him and pretended he could not care less. |
Tommy continued to stare at him. | Tommy kept staring at him. | Tommy stopped looking at him after a second. |
Wendy R. Leibowitz is an attorney and legal columnist in Washington, D.C. | Wendy R. Leibowitz lives, or at least works, in Washington D.C. | Wendy R. Leibowitz is a banker in Portland, Oregon. |
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