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K has no trouble deciding which it is now that he needs a few second-order considerations to refine his argument.	K is a musician.	neutral
When pollsters talk about a representative sample they mean a sampling that accurately reflects the population at large.	Those pollsters that may have trouble getting an accurate sample of people may forge the numbers.	neutral
Chernomyrdin is not all that qualified to succeed in his new mission, and he may not even be motivated to do so.	He could be less motivated after the success of his last assignment.	neutral
It would be more true to say that Gopnik's need to see Picasso as a rascal deforms his view of Picasso's art.	Gopnik needs to see Picasso as a saint.	contradiction
Even this was Lentauw and Yamasami, Zulu tribesmen, entered the marathon because they happened to be in St. Louis as part of an exhibit about the Boer war.	the Zulu tribesman probably entered the marathon race because they happened to be in St. Louis when the Olympics were held.	neutral
At this point, I imagine that readers have three objections.	The author wants to express the readers' disgust.	neutral
Movie stars can control their images.	Movie stars can easily change their image by changing how they look and act.	neutral
If abortion is not wrong--irrespective of the circumstances--then the issue becomes a tradeoff among unpleasant alternatives.	Abortion alterrnatives are unpleasant.	neutral
But you could very well make the opposite argument.	The opposite argument is better.	neutral
The media is going to beat it to death until he finally has to just say one way or the other.	The media is incapable of producing an admission from him, because of their fake news status.	contradiction
Everyone wonders what Starr will do.	Everyone is curious about what Starr is going to do.	entailment
All you've said when you endorse privatization is that if there were water, it should be used to make lemonade.	You should use the opportunity to turn water into lemonade to make better profits.	entailment
Thus, the putting-in-place of the final piece of Roosevelt's and Truman's grand design for a free world--a piece that they had tried and failed to put in place in their day--would be an accomplishment to be proud of.	Roosevelt and Truman had a grand design for a free world.	entailment
By then Gore will be campaigning seriously, distancing himself from Clinton, and running macho ads; Bradley will have defined his big ideas and endured the inevitable media backlash to his current rave notices; and the voters will actually be paying attention.	Gore plans to align with Clinton during his campaign push.	contradiction
The Other Side of the Rainbow	There are two sides to the rainbow.	entailment
But the press only borrows the martial rhetoric that business leaders use themselves.	The press likes repeating rhetoric used by business leaders.	neutral
I don't know how many times I have gone to use the handicapped stall and there's always someone in it.	Too many times when I need to use the restroom, the handicap stall is occupied.	entailment
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 was a huge success in his field.	neutral
Reverse Triangulation: How Clinton's immoderation helps the Democrats look moderate.	Clinton might be making the Democrats look more extreme.	contradiction
By their sheer effectiveness, the quality-of-life drugs narrow the range of what society accepts as normal.	Quality of life drugs are ineffective.	contradiction
Under the immigration bill, Clinton directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport asylum seekers without giving them any opportunity to appear before a tribunal.	Clinton wanted to help out asylum seekers by letting them stay in the country.	contradiction
After coming up with the idea for the project and appointing an associate editor to run it, he says, he was only minimally involved.	He is an honest person.	neutral
Scientists say they have found the source of HIV . They traced HIV-1, the virus that has caused most of the AIDS epidemic, to a related virus carried by an African chimpanzee subspecies.	Scientists were able to link HIV subspecies of chimpanzee located on the African continent.	entailment
Doctors often miss these effects.	Doctors look for these effects.	neutral
If the fast-food world had only three players, and McDonalds's proposed to buy out Burger King, how reassured would we be if they offered the palliative of selling a few franchises to Taco Bell?	Would we truly be comforted if McDonalds bought Burger King but offered to transfer some of the restaurants to Taco Bell?	entailment
The act also ends long-standing rules against cross-ownership in broadcasting.	There are rules for cross-ownership in broadcasting.	entailment
Good This Week 's round table signs off by predicting the outcome of Sunday's World Cup final.	People were unable to guess who would win the tournament.	contradiction
The economics are easy enough to understand, lacking major stars, these movies are inexpensive to make and draw the ideal teens who are capable of seeing Titanic 17 times.	It is inexpensive to make movies that do not have major stars in them.	entailment
It is quite likely that you are suffering from the Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome.	You are affected by Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome.	entailment
But the most affecting act is the kaddish , the statement of mourning that a son says on the death of his father.	THe kaddish is the least important aspect of a father's death.	contradiction
You've got to look in the mirror every morning and ask 'What am I organizing for ?'	Affirming the reason for why you're doing what you're doing, should help to give you clarity and focus in accomplishing your goal of organizing things.	neutral
Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it.	Congress decided to scrap the New York payment scheme.	contradiction
I should also say that while I love the idea that the universe is nothing but a mathematical model of itself, I've never met anyone else who found the idea of software without hardware even remotely plausible.	All people believe software and hardware are not even remotely related,	contradiction
Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.	Benigni feels he's a martyr.	entailment
Ways to ward off Peter Lorre in M .-- Andrea Carla Been in a Coma Since 1932 Michaels	Andrea Carla suffered a stroke which led to her coma.	neutral
The cover essay reflects on hate, describing it as a personal psychological reaction to idiosyncratic experience.	The essay states that hate is a biological anomaly due to physical sensation.	contradiction
Republicans should counter with logical, informative statements that point out the costs involved in litigation.	Republican's don't always point out the costs of litigation because they don't understand how to all the time.	neutral
Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets.	The crook used soccer tricks to steal wallets.	entailment
If 20 percent of new mutual fund money is now going into indexed funds, as opposed to 3 percent in 1994, we can have some confidence that the indexers are planting the seeds of their own destruction.	It's too risky to commit too much money into indexed funds.	neutral
In the beginning there was a great tortoisewho supported the world.	The world was originally supported by a tiny octopus.	contradiction
The split seemed to come in 1969, when Julian Bond was elected to the Georgia state Legislature and became the darling of the American left's radical chic set.	Bond appealed to the rising hippie population and increasing distrust in traditional government.	neutral
The stock options market doesn't make it easier for companies to go public, or for existing companies to raise money.	It is easy for companies to go public, and to raise money in the stock options market.	contradiction
This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny.	There is scrutiny over much criticized practices.	entailment
I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.	I want to discuss the last chapter with you.	entailment
Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.	Hillary refuses to have sex with her husband.	neutral
Brazilians, for instance, with their mestizo consciousness and their many gradations of tipo , or type, behold with disdain our crude bifurcation of race.	Brazilians accept our bifurcation of race with open arms.	contradiction
This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.	Many interdependent book stores were outraged by the times.	entailment
You fresh air/fresh ideas	Some fresh air will help you come up with fresh ideas.	neutral
American companies have claimed that the launches helped the United States more than China.	China and United States didn't take advantage of the launches	contradiction
You're sure to overdose, but that's the obsessive/compulsive thrill you're looking for, right?	Overdosing is common among people with OCD.	neutral
The year is 1964 and all seems well, notwithstanding the recent Great Famine, perhaps the most severe in human history and almost entirely Mao's fault.	Despite all the progresses we made, humans are still subject to famine	entailment
Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.	Leger's ideas about women are completely different from those about machinery.	contradiction
The Slate 60 list still serves to encourage and acknowledge extraordinary generosity by people who, after all, don't have to give the money away, however painless that might be.	The Slate 60 list showcases humans who give their money away.	entailment
Andy's If you must wager on sports, go to Vegas or stick with your neighborhood bookie--he's probably more reputable, if more clearly illegal.	Vegas isn't a place where you can gamble on sports.	contradiction
It's one of the great British foods like roast beef and pork crackling, he explained.	Most Brits are fond of pork crackling.	neutral
FEMA officials could be heard last week bemoaning the fact that people just keep moving back into the flood plains from which only a few years earlier they had been rescued, even as developers destroy more of the watershed that offered some natural protection.	People's insistence on returning to the flood plains is a cause of annoyance with FEMA officials.	entailment
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 is Finn's boss	neutral
They cite AFL-CIO officials who claim the organization spent $35 million on a radio-and-television ad campaign alone.	The radio-and-television companies generously agreed to advertise the organization for free.	contradiction
Scott Shuger's OK (Today's Papers) but kinda warmed over and unsatisfying.	Scott Shuger has worked for Today's Papers for many years	neutral
Priest and director, St. Athanasius the Great International English School	St Athanasius was a small Spanish school.	contradiction
I throw rocks through the window of a different McDonald's every week.	McDonald's throws rocks through the window every week.	contradiction
Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)	Chambers was the cause of the start of McCarthyism.	entailment
Nor is it the result of the benign policies of national governments, which are as callous and corrupt as ever.	It is not because of gentle policies by national governments, which are actually indifferent and crooked as always.	entailment
In hindsight, should you have stopped all private law practice?	The private law practice caused afterthoughts	entailment
I observe that 50 years ago Mad magazine observed the popularity of Chinese restaurants with an elegant piece of satire called Two Chinese Guys Go Into an American Restaurant.	This satire piece would go on to be widely remembered as a favorite amongst the magazine's fans.	neutral
Reviewers find the set dull and the frozen Kabuki poses ...	Reviewers thought the set was boring.	entailment
Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker.	Ninety-five percent of churches opposed poker.	neutral
, the government--borrowing a lot of money).	The government is in deep debt to someone.	neutral
The movie reveals what such a society could be like and what a horror it would be.	The movie is set in the distant future.	neutral
Lana's mother, Linda Gutierres (not her name in the film), told them where they could find Brandon.	Brandon might have been with Lana	neutral
When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made.	A CDROM of Pooh Bear is a good indicator that his franchise is successful.	entailment
In the film, for example, his wrestling days come to an abrupt end after he and Lawler erupt into a brawl while appearing on Late Night With David Letterman . But in life, the rematches would continue.	In the movie, she quit wrestling after fighting with Lawler on a late night TV show.	entailment
A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.	Saddam's son used to command his unit with harsh manners	neutral
And according to the WP TV column, the two talk when they're in the exercise yard together--about old-time flicks they've enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies, which they see via the prison's free cable hook-up.	They watch movies together on their phone.	contradiction
Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's.	Residents of South Korea and Taiwan earn a salary that is in line with what a teenager earns at McDonald's in America.	entailment
More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.	Huang Yong Ping is a better artist than Gordon.	neutral
Meanwhile, Olivia fits right into the role of the beautiful-blonde-who-isn't-really-a-bimbo.	Olivia is beautiful.	entailment
I don't mind a girl who thinks,	I like a thinking girl.	entailment
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 is delaying working on the budget.	neutral
recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath, said Rep.	The president lied under oath.	entailment
In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks.	Pretty Woman is a costume drama/horror film.	contradiction
I would take an expression in the Oval Office of 'Dear God, Help Me,' Bush responded.	The expression Bush took reflected his need of divine assistance.	entailment
But it turns out that to buy $1 of dividends costs you $72 (among Dow Jones industrial average stocks).	Some companies offered dividends at a more reason cost.	neutral
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.	People have great faith and trust in American politics.	contradiction
Washington can't erase jurisdictional frontiers, but it can encourage metropolitan government via tax incentives and cheerleading.	Tax incentives and cheerleading are a few of the ways Washington can encourage metro governments.	entailment
Now it stands to monopolize it, thanks to its ad dollars and its friends in the media.	The product has gained both monetary status and media status.	entailment
He appeared on every network Tuesday night to insist that the Bush brothers and other victorious Republican governors such as George Pataki (New York), John Rowland (Connecticut), Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), and John Engler (Michigan) were conservatives.	The Republicans were accused of being conservatives.	entailment
Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke.	Due to Lehman hitting into the rough by the 16th green, he lost a stroke.	entailment
When some of his Giants players had drug problems, Parcells spent a week at a rehab center, scouting if it was good enough for his men.	Parcells visited all the rehab centers he could.	neutral
They were a breeze to enter--a few mouse clicks and a password.	They were impossible to access with a password and a few mouse clicks.	contradiction
Meanwhile, merger mania has seized the telecom industry.	The telecom industry is witnessing a lot of mergers.	entailment
McCain, for example, demands an investigation of the allegations about technology transfer [and] all these campaign contributions that came out of China.	McCain wants to investigate the technology transfer and the Chinese campaign contributions.	entailment
Starr's goal--as Bruce Shapiro, in a perceptive anti-Starr Salon essay , recognizes--is most likely not to vindicate Willey but to unravel a presidential cover-up conspiracy.	Starr's goal is to vindicate Willey.	contradiction
Do you steal Tootsie pops at checkout counters?	Tootsie pops are kept in containers with locks on them.	contradiction
The decline in the won, by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive, would help bring about the decline in the current-account deficit, or the generation of a surplus.	The account deficit would go into decline because of the imports were handled.	entailment
Paul shrinks from this view.	Paul often looks away from this view.	neutral
In 1958, 4 percent of white Americans approved of interracial marriages.	Interracial marriages were more common in in the mid-west.	neutral
Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.	Speech writers help with every presidents speech.	neutral
A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1.	50 cents is the same as $1.	contradiction
What one does not expect in a book of this kind--a book that is technical even as it is beautiful--is that the author will be not just fastidious but also an evocative and wonderfully quirky writer.	The author was a quirky writer.	entailment

K has no trouble deciding which it is now that he needs a few second-order considerations to refine his argument.

K is a musician.

neutral

When pollsters talk about a representative sample they mean a sampling that accurately reflects the population at large.

Those pollsters that may have trouble getting an accurate sample of people may forge the numbers.

neutral

Chernomyrdin is not all that qualified to succeed in his new mission, and he may not even be motivated to do so.

He could be less motivated after the success of his last assignment.

neutral

It would be more true to say that Gopnik's need to see Picasso as a rascal deforms his view of Picasso's art.

Gopnik needs to see Picasso as a saint.

contradiction

Even this was Lentauw and Yamasami, Zulu tribesmen, entered the marathon because they happened to be in St. Louis as part of an exhibit about the Boer war.

the Zulu tribesman probably entered the marathon race because they happened to be in St. Louis when the Olympics were held.

neutral

At this point, I imagine that readers have three objections.

The author wants to express the readers' disgust.

neutral

Movie stars can control their images.

Movie stars can easily change their image by changing how they look and act.

neutral

If abortion is not wrong--irrespective of the circumstances--then the issue becomes a tradeoff among unpleasant alternatives.

Abortion alterrnatives are unpleasant.

neutral

But you could very well make the opposite argument.

The opposite argument is better.

neutral

The media is going to beat it to death until he finally has to just say one way or the other.

The media is incapable of producing an admission from him, because of their fake news status.

contradiction

Everyone wonders what Starr will do.

Everyone is curious about what Starr is going to do.

entailment

All you've said when you endorse privatization is that if there were water, it should be used to make lemonade.

You should use the opportunity to turn water into lemonade to make better profits.

entailment

Thus, the putting-in-place of the final piece of Roosevelt's and Truman's grand design for a free world--a piece that they had tried and failed to put in place in their day--would be an accomplishment to be proud of.

Roosevelt and Truman had a grand design for a free world.

entailment

By then Gore will be campaigning seriously, distancing himself from Clinton, and running macho ads; Bradley will have defined his big ideas and endured the inevitable media backlash to his current rave notices; and the voters will actually be paying attention.

Gore plans to align with Clinton during his campaign push.

contradiction

The Other Side of the Rainbow

There are two sides to the rainbow.

entailment

But the press only borrows the martial rhetoric that business leaders use themselves.

The press likes repeating rhetoric used by business leaders.

neutral

I don't know how many times I have gone to use the handicapped stall and there's always someone in it.

Too many times when I need to use the restroom, the handicap stall is occupied.

entailment

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 was a huge success in his field.

neutral

Reverse Triangulation: How Clinton's immoderation helps the Democrats look moderate.

Clinton might be making the Democrats look more extreme.

contradiction

By their sheer effectiveness, the quality-of-life drugs narrow the range of what society accepts as normal.

Quality of life drugs are ineffective.

contradiction

Under the immigration bill, Clinton directed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport asylum seekers without giving them any opportunity to appear before a tribunal.

Clinton wanted to help out asylum seekers by letting them stay in the country.

contradiction

After coming up with the idea for the project and appointing an associate editor to run it, he says, he was only minimally involved.

He is an honest person.

neutral

Scientists say they have found the source of HIV . They traced HIV-1, the virus that has caused most of the AIDS epidemic, to a related virus carried by an African chimpanzee subspecies.

Scientists were able to link HIV subspecies of chimpanzee located on the African continent.

entailment

Doctors often miss these effects.

Doctors look for these effects.

neutral

If the fast-food world had only three players, and McDonalds's proposed to buy out Burger King, how reassured would we be if they offered the palliative of selling a few franchises to Taco Bell?

Would we truly be comforted if McDonalds bought Burger King but offered to transfer some of the restaurants to Taco Bell?

entailment

The act also ends long-standing rules against cross-ownership in broadcasting.

There are rules for cross-ownership in broadcasting.

entailment

Good This Week 's round table signs off by predicting the outcome of Sunday's World Cup final.

People were unable to guess who would win the tournament.

contradiction

The economics are easy enough to understand, lacking major stars, these movies are inexpensive to make and draw the ideal teens who are capable of seeing Titanic 17 times.

It is inexpensive to make movies that do not have major stars in them.

entailment

It is quite likely that you are suffering from the Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome.

You are affected by Grass-Is-Greener Syndrome.

entailment

But the most affecting act is the kaddish , the statement of mourning that a son says on the death of his father.

THe kaddish is the least important aspect of a father's death.

contradiction

You've got to look in the mirror every morning and ask 'What am I organizing for ?'

Affirming the reason for why you're doing what you're doing, should help to give you clarity and focus in accomplishing your goal of organizing things.

neutral

Instead of equalizing things by scrapping the New York payment scheme, Congress decided to equalize things by nationalizing it.

Congress decided to scrap the New York payment scheme.

contradiction

I should also say that while I love the idea that the universe is nothing but a mathematical model of itself, I've never met anyone else who found the idea of software without hardware even remotely plausible.

All people believe software and hardware are not even remotely related,

contradiction

Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom.

Benigni feels he's a martyr.

entailment

Ways to ward off Peter Lorre in M .-- Andrea Carla Been in a Coma Since 1932 Michaels

Andrea Carla suffered a stroke which led to her coma.

neutral

The cover essay reflects on hate, describing it as a personal psychological reaction to idiosyncratic experience.

The essay states that hate is a biological anomaly due to physical sensation.

contradiction

Republicans should counter with logical, informative statements that point out the costs involved in litigation.

Republican's don't always point out the costs of litigation because they don't understand how to all the time.

neutral

Gotta run now because the TV news has just started a story about the police apprehending Soccer Guy--this sidewalk bandit who distracted tourists by breaking into a soccer-ball-handling routine, then circling and bumping them until he'd pickpocketed their wallets.

The crook used soccer tricks to steal wallets.

entailment

If 20 percent of new mutual fund money is now going into indexed funds, as opposed to 3 percent in 1994, we can have some confidence that the indexers are planting the seeds of their own destruction.

It's too risky to commit too much money into indexed funds.

neutral

In the beginning there was a great tortoisewho supported the world.

The world was originally supported by a tiny octopus.

contradiction

The split seemed to come in 1969, when Julian Bond was elected to the Georgia state Legislature and became the darling of the American left's radical chic set.

Bond appealed to the rising hippie population and increasing distrust in traditional government.

neutral

The stock options market doesn't make it easier for companies to go public, or for existing companies to raise money.

It is easy for companies to go public, and to raise money in the stock options market.

contradiction

This brings soft money and other much criticized practices under scrutiny.

There is scrutiny over much criticized practices.

entailment

I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position.

I want to discuss the last chapter with you.

entailment

Hillary is a prude, forcing Clinton to satisfy his sexual needs elsewhere.

Hillary refuses to have sex with her husband.

neutral

Brazilians, for instance, with their mestizo consciousness and their many gradations of tipo , or type, behold with disdain our crude bifurcation of race.

Brazilians accept our bifurcation of race with open arms.

contradiction

This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.

Many interdependent book stores were outraged by the times.

entailment

You fresh air/fresh ideas

Some fresh air will help you come up with fresh ideas.

neutral

American companies have claimed that the launches helped the United States more than China.

China and United States didn't take advantage of the launches

contradiction

You're sure to overdose, but that's the obsessive/compulsive thrill you're looking for, right?

Overdosing is common among people with OCD.

neutral

The year is 1964 and all seems well, notwithstanding the recent Great Famine, perhaps the most severe in human history and almost entirely Mao's fault.

Despite all the progresses we made, humans are still subject to famine

entailment

Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery.

Leger's ideas about women are completely different from those about machinery.

contradiction

The Slate 60 list still serves to encourage and acknowledge extraordinary generosity by people who, after all, don't have to give the money away, however painless that might be.

The Slate 60 list showcases humans who give their money away.

entailment

Andy's If you must wager on sports, go to Vegas or stick with your neighborhood bookie--he's probably more reputable, if more clearly illegal.

Vegas isn't a place where you can gamble on sports.

contradiction

It's one of the great British foods like roast beef and pork crackling, he explained.

Most Brits are fond of pork crackling.

neutral

FEMA officials could be heard last week bemoaning the fact that people just keep moving back into the flood plains from which only a few years earlier they had been rescued, even as developers destroy more of the watershed that offered some natural protection.

People's insistence on returning to the flood plains is a cause of annoyance with FEMA officials.

entailment

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 is Finn's boss

neutral

They cite AFL-CIO officials who claim the organization spent $35 million on a radio-and-television ad campaign alone.

The radio-and-television companies generously agreed to advertise the organization for free.

contradiction

Scott Shuger's OK (Today's Papers) but kinda warmed over and unsatisfying.

Scott Shuger has worked for Today's Papers for many years

neutral

Priest and director, St. Athanasius the Great International English School

St Athanasius was a small Spanish school.

contradiction

I throw rocks through the window of a different McDonald's every week.

McDonald's throws rocks through the window every week.

contradiction

Tanenhaus accuses Chambers of having inadvertently instigated McCarthyism, and shows us Chambers' paranoia, his introversion, his sententiousness (Stephen Koch, the Wall Street Journal ). (Also, see Slate's mildly critical review by Ann Douglas.)

Chambers was the cause of the start of McCarthyism.

entailment

Nor is it the result of the benign policies of national governments, which are as callous and corrupt as ever.

It is not because of gentle policies by national governments, which are actually indifferent and crooked as always.

entailment

In hindsight, should you have stopped all private law practice?

The private law practice caused afterthoughts

entailment

I observe that 50 years ago Mad magazine observed the popularity of Chinese restaurants with an elegant piece of satire called Two Chinese Guys Go Into an American Restaurant.

This satire piece would go on to be widely remembered as a favorite amongst the magazine's fans.

neutral

Reviewers find the set dull and the frozen Kabuki poses ...

Reviewers thought the set was boring.

entailment

Virtually every church in the state, the top strategists from both parties, the state chamber of commerce, and thousands of grassroots organizers banded together to defeat poker.

Ninety-five percent of churches opposed poker.

neutral

, the government--borrowing a lot of money).

The government is in deep debt to someone.

neutral

The movie reveals what such a society could be like and what a horror it would be.

The movie is set in the distant future.

neutral

Lana's mother, Linda Gutierres (not her name in the film), told them where they could find Brandon.

Brandon might have been with Lana

neutral

When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made.

A CDROM of Pooh Bear is a good indicator that his franchise is successful.

entailment

In the film, for example, his wrestling days come to an abrupt end after he and Lawler erupt into a brawl while appearing on Late Night With David Letterman . But in life, the rematches would continue.

In the movie, she quit wrestling after fighting with Lawler on a late night TV show.

entailment

A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.

Saddam's son used to command his unit with harsh manners

neutral

And according to the WP TV column, the two talk when they're in the exercise yard together--about old-time flicks they've enjoyed on Turner Classic Movies, which they see via the prison's free cable hook-up.

They watch movies together on their phone.

contradiction

Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's.

Residents of South Korea and Taiwan earn a salary that is in line with what a teenager earns at McDonald's in America.

entailment

More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris.

Huang Yong Ping is a better artist than Gordon.

neutral

Meanwhile, Olivia fits right into the role of the beautiful-blonde-who-isn't-really-a-bimbo.

Olivia is beautiful.

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I don't mind a girl who thinks,

I like a thinking girl.

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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 is delaying working on the budget.

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recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath, said Rep.

The president lied under oath.

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In modern romantic comedy-- Working Girl to Pretty Woman --we're meant to applaud the heroine's rise from working-class to First Class, with the confidence that she can still listen to Garth Brooks.

Pretty Woman is a costume drama/horror film.

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I would take an expression in the Oval Office of 'Dear God, Help Me,' Bush responded.

The expression Bush took reflected his need of divine assistance.

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But it turns out that to buy $1 of dividends costs you $72 (among Dow Jones industrial average stocks).

Some companies offered dividends at a more reason cost.

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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.

People have great faith and trust in American politics.

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Washington can't erase jurisdictional frontiers, but it can encourage metropolitan government via tax incentives and cheerleading.

Tax incentives and cheerleading are a few of the ways Washington can encourage metro governments.

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Now it stands to monopolize it, thanks to its ad dollars and its friends in the media.

The product has gained both monetary status and media status.

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He appeared on every network Tuesday night to insist that the Bush brothers and other victorious Republican governors such as George Pataki (New York), John Rowland (Connecticut), Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), and John Engler (Michigan) were conservatives.

The Republicans were accused of being conservatives.

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Then Lehman hit into the rough by the 16 th green and lost a stroke.

Due to Lehman hitting into the rough by the 16th green, he lost a stroke.

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When some of his Giants players had drug problems, Parcells spent a week at a rehab center, scouting if it was good enough for his men.

Parcells visited all the rehab centers he could.

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They were a breeze to enter--a few mouse clicks and a password.

They were impossible to access with a password and a few mouse clicks.

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Meanwhile, merger mania has seized the telecom industry.

The telecom industry is witnessing a lot of mergers.

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McCain, for example, demands an investigation of the allegations about technology transfer [and] all these campaign contributions that came out of China.

McCain wants to investigate the technology transfer and the Chinese campaign contributions.

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Starr's goal--as Bruce Shapiro, in a perceptive anti-Starr Salon essay , recognizes--is most likely not to vindicate Willey but to unravel a presidential cover-up conspiracy.

Starr's goal is to vindicate Willey.

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Do you steal Tootsie pops at checkout counters?

Tootsie pops are kept in containers with locks on them.

contradiction

The decline in the won, by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive, would help bring about the decline in the current-account deficit, or the generation of a surplus.

The account deficit would go into decline because of the imports were handled.

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Paul shrinks from this view.

Paul often looks away from this view.

neutral

In 1958, 4 percent of white Americans approved of interracial marriages.

Interracial marriages were more common in in the mid-west.

neutral

Presidents and their speech writers have mined their predecessors for memorable words and repeated them without attribution.

Speech writers help with every presidents speech.

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A risk-neutral person is one who is indifferent when given a choice between 50 cents and a 50-50 chance of $1.

50 cents is the same as $1.

contradiction

What one does not expect in a book of this kind--a book that is technical even as it is beautiful--is that the author will be not just fastidious but also an evocative and wonderfully quirky writer.

The author was a quirky writer.

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