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But if you look at the international monetary literature when Mundell was in his glory days, you get the impression that he was 15 or 20 years ahead of his contemporaries. | Mundell understood international money more than his contemporaries. | entailment |
While conservatives bash Bulworth for its political correctness, The Nation likens it to Citizen Kane . Like [Orson] Welles, [Warren] Beatty brings to this production a history of left-liberal politics and an admiration for black musicians, says Stuart Klawans. | The Nation reviewed a film by Warren Beatty. | entailment |
(The baseball season is another and AMC is a third.) | The sport league AMC might become a fourth | neutral |
(The exception is the cast of non-Jewish locals, who are almost all soap operaish white trash.) | Nearly all the cast of non-Jewish locals were soap operaish white trash. | neutral |
I wind up doing many things alone on weekends and in the evenings because she always has plans with the girls. | Her arrangements often deny me the chance to hang out with them. | entailment |
(For the neutral-interrogator approach, try France.) | One European country uses a neutral- interrogator style. | entailment |
3 million for a 30-second spot) and banal products. | It costs 3 million dollars for a commercial. | neutral |
Downstairs neighbor Aaron Whiteheard said, One night, I heard what sounded like a kid ... | The noise might have been caused by an animal outside. | neutral |
The Grand Slam Breakfast just never took off. | The a grand a slam breakfast was the largest selling combo plate. | contradiction |
Much of the money given away by the Slate 60 goes to finance new buildings at already wealthy universities. | Wealthy universities don't need this kind of financing from Slate 60. | neutral |
One reject was asked earnestly why on earth he had gone to live in Prague after graduation, surviving on odd jobs instead of starting a career back home. | Far from being a loose cannon, he went home to establish himself after graduation. | contradiction |
The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics. | The forces that a bringing order to orthography and semantics are giving order to other things as well. | neutral |
It's a little hard to believe that the Jasons of the world end up straightening out, as Lewis titles the section about the worst-off cases, just as it's hard to buy the extreme view that parents are hopeless screw-ups. | Lewis believes moms and dads are total screw-ups. | neutral |
The only people in Greenville who support the Southern Connector are the highway contractors who will benefit financially from the project. | The Greenville Connector project is lucrative for highway contractors. | contradiction |
The English gutter press, which was just developing a wide audience, whipped up public hatred toward him over his sex crimes and made him a pariah. | The newspaper published a glowing article about him. | contradiction |
(It's short indeed, going from Mesopotamia to medieval Burgundy to Nicole Simpson in 10 pages.) | The book is short. | entailment |
They say things like This is the coolest generation ever. | Human beings hate to refer to any generation as being the best. | contradiction |
Why are you subjecting your loyal and (usually) enthusiastic readership to the reactionary, bigoted, and sexist drivel of Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz in ? We don't subscribe to Slate in order to expose ourselves to the ramblings of Anita Bryant's spiritual parents. | I have high expectations when it comes to what I subscribe to. | neutral |
' Ah, and I do, I remember very well. | That was so forgettable. | contradiction |
The suspected shooter was described as a well-liked honor student with no disciplinary record. | The suspected shooter was white. | neutral |
TV ads are dumb, both in the sense that they tend to be crudely demagogic appeals, and because they can't target segments of the electorate with any degree of accuracy. | Crude demagogic appeals are smart and intelligent. | contradiction |
This column, as my first in the Strange Bed, is free of history. | The column was full of historical facts. | contradiction |
The consistency of Israeli policy made the difference. | Israeli policy was consistent. | entailment |
Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters. | Bill Clinton was met by a rowdy crowd of Boston people. | entailment |
The Flytrap investigation is the only part of Starr's work that America a) understands and b) actually cares about. | The Flytrap investigation is very well known and debated by many people. | neutral |
Newsweek lambastes the president for diplomatic errors and missed opportunities: Security advisers originally told the administration to offer President Slobodan Milosevic a face-saving compromise; when action became inevitable, they recommended strengthening NATO's military threat; finally, as airstrikes began, they urged planning for the refugee crisis sure to come. | Newsweek lambastes Slobodan Milosevic for missing the opportunity to strengthen NATO's military threat. | entailment |
Eight pages later, a tribute to Princess Diana emphasizes her embodiment of, yes, Globalization has become the decade's most overused word, but at its heart, it embodies a real technology has made this a planet of shared experiences. | It is cringe-inducing to hear the word "globalization." | neutral |
Other no story line, cheap puns, and heavy-handed sexual innuendo. | Despite its shortcomings, the story is entertaining as a simple comedy. | neutral |
I think of my late lamented friend Boris Shub, son of the Menshevik historian David Shub, who had set up RIAS (the radio station in the American sector) in Berlin in 1945, a major cold war propaganda asset. | Boris Shub who is deceased was the son of David Shub. | entailment |
Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion. | It's possible to decrease a number by exactly spelling it in words | contradiction |
(Yes, if it uses speed attacks rather than electrical ones.) | Speed attacks are better than electric ones. | neutral |
An unmarried dependent student qualifies before age 23, as does any adult child who acquired a physical or mental disability before age 21; | A child who was disabled before 21 qualifies. | entailment |
He can drop the pretense that he's nonpartisan. | Never one to make excuses, he's equally critical of all parties. | contradiction |
I describe the Brave New World as a horror, and Huxley thought of it as that also. | The author believes that Huxley wrote about a horror. | entailment |
They also see it as easing their way toward economic integration with Western Europe. | They are excited about becoming economically integrated. | neutral |
And there's no dramatic payoff with the chillingly satanic tobacco company president (Michael Gambon) whose threats first make Wigand think about going public. | Wigand's threats of going public caused the tobacco company president to seek legal counsel from his lawyer. | neutral |
As in the regular world, the easier it is for Joe Consumer to track down an illegal distributor, the easier it is for cops to do the same. | It's easy for cops to find illegal distributors when it's easy for consumers to find them as well. | entailment |
It half-works right up to the point where people start getting gassed, and then Benigni's moist-eyed heroism and tenacious faith in his own irresistibility start to seem like a monstrous ego trip--a clown's megalomania. | Benigni's heroism isn't shown. | contradiction |
Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses). | Chess prodigies are known to otherwise be very normal people. | contradiction |
As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers. | Insurers put pressure on the companies on behalf of the hospitals and doctors. | contradiction |
Civility is not one of the major virtues. | Civility is considered a virtue. | neutral |
Well, why read any type of fiction? | Reading fiction is debateable. | entailment |
A tightly wrapped head, with encapsulated eyes, nose, and mouth, doubtless suited the publicly shrouded female of antiquity, whose intelligence flowered wholly unseen. | In the antiquity women used to keep their head without wraps | contradiction |
But when he became impotent, it took his identity away. | He has felt lonely after becoming impotent. | neutral |
He adopted an upbeat American organicism derived from Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. | He adopted a depressing American organicism from the works of Mark Twain. | contradiction |
The Red Hat manual offered clearer directions, and the new version automatically partitioned my hard drive. | They looked the manual up online. | neutral |
A comprehensive international review of 54 studies concluded that the pill doesn't heighten a woman's long-term probability of getting breast cancer. | The pill doesn't increase a womans chance of getting breast cancer. | entailment |
Reviews of the latest one suggest the answer is yes. | The reviews gave an inconclusive answer to the question. | contradiction |
The addition of Chrysler may help change that approach, but how remains to be seen. | Chrysler was left out of the group. | contradiction |
The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer. | DiCaprio's character often thinks about killing his classmates in The Basketball Diaries. | 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. | Government activities are usually inconsequential. | neutral |
I don't envy next year's teen-sex filmmaker the challenge of topping the pie scene or the cloudy glass of beer bit. | Teen-sex filmmakers are always trying to one-up each other. | neutral |
Does computerization give ETS an unfair advantage? | ETS went out of existence before computers were invented. | contradiction |
The heroes of the movie are a man and woman who escape the system with their baby and are going to live like a traditional family. | The man and woman wanted to live a normal life in a traditional manner. | entailment |
Which brings us to possibility No. | We have decided to drop all possibilities. | contradiction |
There followed the epoch of leg warmers and other mutations into the aerobics class look. | Leg warmers were worn during the time period in order to make people look frumpy and uneducated. | contradiction |
Clark also expressed the hope that he and Redgrave could continue with their marriage. | The marriage between Clark and Redgrave was a success, and they were able to enjoy their honeymoon together. | neutral |
The Republican leaders wish the impeachment hearings would just go away, particularly because the lunatic fringe of the party is howling for Clinton's blood, which will play poorly for the cameras. | The leaders despise Clinton too, but refrain from voicing it like their radical followers. | neutral |
24/Seven pulls together the Slate features that are updated repeatedly throughout the Our daily Diary; the e-mail give-and-take of The Breakfast Table and The Book Club and Dialogues about the pressing issues of the day; e-mail dispatches from hither and yon; as well as our Moneybox meditations on business, Chatterbox commentaries on politics, and Culturebox on ... | The Slate features are fully online. | neutral |
Only Monday Night Football was in both groups' top 10. | Monday Night Football may be in both's top 5. | neutral |
When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace. | De Niro and Finn are peers | contradiction |
Information technology also makes it easier for businesses to deal with the risks associated with fluctuating currencies. | Dealing with variability in the currency markets is one of the benefits of information technology. | entailment |
We don't have rational drug policies in the streets or public schools because we don't have rational discussions about drug use. | There have been reasonable conversations about drug policies in our public education system. | contradiction |
Fred Thompson (who will chair the investigation), and campaign reform. | Fred Thompson and his partners have final say over what happens. | neutral |
Museum of Jewish A Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York City). | New York City has many religious museums. | neutral |
When the nation's overall trade deficit increases, it means that Americans, on average, are spending more than they are earning. | The nations trade deficit can never increase. | contradiction |
I am surprised, Richard, that you find Faludi's characterizations of the male crisis to fit the British profile. | Faludi is surprised that Richard finds his characterizations to fit the British. | neutral |
The pierced generation may simply be acknowledging the deadliness of the times we live in, suggestive as they are of earlier epochs in human history. | The pierced generation fails to acknowledge the deadliness of the times we live in. | contradiction |
The milk proponents offer a variety of responses as to why osteoporosis is far less common in the nonmilk-drinking world. | Milk lovers have many explanations as to why bone loss is less common in places where milk is not drunk. | entailment |
The test for Putin, says Berger, is the economy, stupid. | Putin is going to lose consensus because of the economy | neutral |
What is worrisome is the failure of pollsters themselves to learn from the history of their profession. | Pollsters always make predictions that become real | contradiction |
And that's the key point. | It was easy to identify the key point in the information. | neutral |
Time 's cover story celebrates Hip-Hop Nation and chronicles the genre's 20 year rise. | Hip Hop has continually declined in acceptance and fanbase. | contradiction |
He recently purchased 387 acres on one of the San Juan Islands that is the site of Camp Nor'Wester, a venerated children's summer retreat. | He purchased 1000 acres on one of the San Juan Islands. | contradiction |
But even the Standard , it seems, has its limits. | There didn't used to be so many restraints with the Standard a few years ago. | neutral |
I can only hope that these low critical standards extend to my own work. | The author wants to keep their standards high. | contradiction |
The site is actually no longer at the address that Direct Hit found to be most visited (a common problem with search engines). | The site doesn't have the 'most visited' status anymore. | entailment |
Wilson uses a stage backdrop of nothing but stark blue and projects bands of white light across it, while his performers stand almost motionless. | Wilson has used this stage setup since his very first performance. | neutral |
The few stinky letters were from clergymen. | Clergymen sent letters. | entailment |
Third, the woman serves the man's need to be needed. | When the man feels needed he is much happier and performs better at tasks. | neutral |
The short-term question was how such a nut got drafted into the Israeli army | Someone got drafted into the Israeli army that should not have been. | entailment |
Orrin Hatch said Americans are entitled to know about felonies committed by a candidate. | Lots of people showed their agreement with what Orrin Hatch said about candidates that have committed felony offenses. | neutral |
Suge, too, imitated mob style, valuing loyalty and insularity over all, surrounding himself with thuggish cronies. | Suge would utilize his mob style of rule by carrying out threats against others in a similar manner as a mafia leader would. | neutral |
Weird Ted receives The New Yorker , New York Review of Books , and Los Angeles Times in prison and spends his rare recreation time with fellow bombers Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef. | Charles Manson was a bomber in jail and received the The New Yorker. | contradiction |
To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression? | The Dust Bowl outlasted the Great Depression. | neutral |
To resume my economist's hat, scarcity confers value, and the realization that one's days are few increases one's appreciation of their value. | When you realize your days are few, you appreciate them more and live less risky. | neutral |
We egg on Dennis Rodman, watching him parade like a peacock and break down in tears on national TV. | Rodman has repeated this behavior on multiple occasions. | neutral |
He felt a bond with us as fellow writers. | Our connection as writers has allowed us to grow closer with one another, in turn, allowing us to share and develop new ideas for writing. | neutral |
If it really wants to balance the budget it should just do so, rather than passing feel-good laws that say the budget should be balanced. | It balanced the budget without passing new laws. | contradiction |
Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like. | It's bad to invest your money. | contradiction |
How was Sun Ra able to command this kind of sacrifice? | There are sacrifices to Sun Ra going on nowadays | contradiction |
Audiences literally boo avant-garde director Robert Wilson for his minimalist staging of Richard Wagner's classic opera, and most critics agree with the verdict. | The opera was widely celebrated by all who saw it. | contradiction |
This moderate course doesn't satisfy the most avid consumerists. | These consumers were not impress with the course they took. | 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. | Institutions in America used to function as watchdogs, but public trust in them has fallen apart over the years. | entailment |
In fact, the evidence thus far is quite depressing in this regard. | The evidence will not create a strong case of fact. | neutral |
But from there, he goes wrong. | He goes wrong from there. | entailment |
The formula doesn't exist. | The formula has successfully been replicated several times. | contradiction |
Leaving a Doll's House and What Falls Away seem less like vindictive, manipulative performances than like baby steps in the right direction. | Leaving a Doll's House and What Falls Away are steps in a positive direction. | contradiction |
(Watch previews and join The Odyssey chat on NBC's site.) | NBC site is basic and lacks chat functionalities | contradiction |
Slate's Ann Hulbert says Hochschild overstates her The truth is that home hasn't suddenly become work. | Hochschild does not get the truth correct about home becoming work. | entailment |
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