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The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers. | The largest company, Phillip Morris, agreed to pay more than $300 million to the attorney's general. | neutral |
I win both bets, scoring 125 samoleans. | After my win I bought a new pair of pants. | neutral |
Replace George Will's column with weekly photo of him being punched in the nose. | George Wallace was born in England and has liberal beliefs. | contradiction |
It would be shorter once you got the hang of it. | It's unlikely to do any better than what you're doing now. | contradiction |
Sharp Elbows wasn't living up to his own elevated standard of positive campaigning. | Sharp Elbows disappoints himself with his standard of campaigning. | entailment |
USAT : After all, this is the man about whom Carly Simon was rumored to have written the hit 1972 song, You're So Vain. | Carly Simon met the man at a bar in 1971. | neutral |
The cover story purports to critically examine the hype surrounding Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut but really just adds to it. | Eyes Wide Shut was not considered to be a controversial movie. | contradiction |
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 was black. | neutral |
For about $50,000, the blind can have a circuit board inserted in their brains that will stimulate the visual cortex and produce grainy black-and-white images out of optical data captured through a tiny camera. | A circuit board implanted in the brain of the blind will show colorful and vivid pictures to them. | contradiction |
(For example, he guaranteed Bosnian Croats, who are wildly nationalistic, 12 seats in the parliament--even though they don't live in Croatia.) | Only Bosnia Croats living in Croatia would be allowed in parliament. | contradiction |
Fox President and CEO Rich Cronin called this separate-but-equal programming an effort to superserve children, adding, We will not stereotype in any way. | The large television network, Fox, said they would use stereotypes every time they had the chance. | contradiction |
The Bradley campaign declined to provide a comment for this story. | Bradley argued strongly against the article. | contradiction |
For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention. | Finding out about Clinton's behavior led to little interest from journalists. | contradiction |
Today we cede our vision of '50s female fashion to the movie version, as if that were the real mirror of the decade--everything blatantly cleansed of error, willfully idealized into unreality, odorless, effortless, affectless. | The perception of what 50s female fashion should be changed. | entailment |
Until recently, their industry was illegal almost everywhere. | Their industry was illegal until now. | entailment |
The New Yorker puzzles over Stern's His program is pure id--vile, cruel, crude--yet he remains a faithful husband and devoted father. | Stern's family has no issue with the way he acts on the radio. | neutral |
Regarding Onward, Christian Clothiers: I often wonder if the peddlers of religious schlock have actually read any Scripture beyond the gory here's hell in your face passages. | The author doubts peddlers of Christian products have even really believe in their religion. | neutral |
They were like the ones in The Last Picture Show , with wrinkles around the middle and unreliable straps that slid around on the shoulders, uneasily contending with the bra straps. | The wrinkles could be ironed out. | neutral |
When I checked a couple of years ago, the shelter population had indeed increased, but only by a handful of families. | There was a huge increase in many families at the shelter. | contradiction |
Finally, as he prepares to launch his own daily TV show, we thought we'd highlight National Enquirer columnist Mike Walker's confident prediction that there'll never, ever be a post-Lewinsky photo showing Bill [Clinton] with a cigar. | Mike Walker works for the National Enquirer. | entailment |
On Meet the Press , White House Chief of Staff John Podesta We're not negotiating, Tim. | John Podesta does not plan on negotiations. | entailment |
We've also revamped our e-mail auto-deliveries to give you more choices. | The updated version of the email auto-delivery systems gives you less choices. | contradiction |
The former adversaries have formed a pact of mutually assured ambition, with Gore gunning for the presidency and Gephardt angling to retake the House and become its speaker. | Gore and Gephardt, who were once opponents and now have mutually same ambitions, are running for a political position. | entailment |
and that's when you get hit by the meteorite. | Just when you least expect it, all of a sudden your brain feels like you been hit by a meteorite. | entailment |
If the jocks don't know why Bradley should be president, why are they endorsing him? | Why even endorse Bradley if the jocks don't have a good reasons for it? | entailment |
The Louis XV story reminds me of one of Ronald Reagan's favorites--about the Muslim philosopher who said that the king came to the throne with high taxes and departed with low revenue. | Ronald Reagan found the philosopher's idea to be clever. | entailment |
And while we allow people to give a kidney to their child, we do not allow them to donate their heart. | Like the kidney, people are allowed to donate their lungs. | neutral |
N otting Hill opens with an superfluous voice-over that sets the scene and makes certain that the audience is oriented. | the voice over is missing in the play. | contradiction |
, and appeared here in 1977. | Several conservative newspapers did not have on the front page of their paper that Jimmy Carter was sworn in as President. | neutral |
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. | Experts and novices agreed in their dislike of Robert Wilson's take on Richard Wagner's opera. | entailment |
It recounts the misdeeds of Phantomd, a teen-age cracker who infiltrated computers at nuclear-weapons labs, military bases, banks, dams, and major corporations before he was caught. | Phantomd was a cracker who caused trouble. | entailment |
Slate's Ann Hulbert says Hochschild overstates her The truth is that home hasn't suddenly become work. | Slate's Ann Hulbert claims that Hochschild understates the truth about home becoming work. | contradiction |
The first moral is that children are never safer than when staring at a computer screen. | The first myth is that children are safer staring at the screen of an electronic device. | contradiction |
At least, it seems clear that the earnings of the total labor force have risen pretty much in line with productivity (output per hour of work) when measured correctly. | Often total labor force earnings will show steadiness with the line of productivity. | neutral |
The best solutions for searching will probably result from a combination of humans and computers. | A combination of human and computer searches are the worst solution. | contradiction |
This is the amount on the check the new owner writes. | The check is simple and only contains a few lines for amounts to be added. | neutral |
8. She's a dirty little secret. | It would be okay if all of her facts came to light. | contradiction |
Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms that would make Floyd look like a spring shower. | In the future, storms would like decrease in strength. | contradiction |
If slightness in a Library of America volume is a mark of esteem, Kerr can be assured that the two svelte books she reviewed, at under a thousand pages each, accord Gertrude Stein a measure of honor beyond mere inclusion in the series. | The two books that Kerr reviewed were over a thousand pages long. | contradiction |
The heir to what was once the world's largest private oil fortune received his British passport in the week before Christmas and immediately revoked his US nationality, the newspaper said. | The heir to the private oil fortune would eventually apply for British citizenship after living there for awhile. | neutral |
But his heart is clearly with the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony. | Lao-tzu thought that the men would dwell in disagreement in a world with laws | entailment |
3 million for a 30-second spot) and banal products. | A 30 second spot costs 3 million dollars. | entailment |
Starr told me that, and Bennett confirmed it but would not tell me specifics. | Starr told me, and Bennett confirmed it but would not tell me the information. | entailment |
One of my favorites among these paintings, Untitled V (1982), is built around a repeated shape that is like a dark letter S. | I will purchase a replica of this painting for myself, sense it's one of my favorites. | neutral |
(I would bet that every survey of teens taken since Cain and Abel found that they named parents as their favorite role models.) | Most kids see their teacher as their favorite role model. | contradiction |
But he is older now. | He has grown into an adult. | neutral |
A year ago, when News Quiz debuted, Slate was free. | Slate lost the majority of its readers when it became paid | neutral |
But Royko also challenged white Chicago's prejudices, skewering bigots who tried to keep a white couple that had adopted a black baby out of their neighborhood or a funeral parlor that didn't want to bury a black soldier killed in Vietnam. | Royko opposed racists. | entailment |
Not Homo economicus is not a central pillar of my faith--he is merely a working assumption, albeit one that is extremely useful in many circumstances. | Homo economicus is useful in the authors pillar of faith, but not the focus point. | entailment |
As surrogate mothers have proved, knowing that you've given no genes to an infant needn't stop the bonding process. | Bonding with babies is entirely contingent on sharing genes with them. | contradiction |
We don't know, for example, if Earthlike planets are common. | We will discover more insight about Earthlike planets as we venture further out into space. | neutral |
largely designed to illustrate how a powerful woman can shatter glass ceilings. | Most powerful women cannot shatter glass ceilings. | neutral |
I think our country deserves a president who, when he makes a mistake, is willing to acknowledge it and willing to learn from it, because I believe that the presidency is not an academic exercise. | The current leader of the nation always fesses up to their blunders. | neutral |
We don't know, for example, if Earthlike planets are common. | We know for certain that Earthlike planets are very common. | contradiction |
The Virtual Library on International Development is another source for material on these issues. | The Virtual Library is a popular source for material. | neutral |
This year, my wife is dragging me to the home of some friends of hers to celebrate the new year. | I didn't want to go my wife's friend's house for New Years, but she made me go. | neutral |
Democrats think they're immune to this attack because they've got both ends of the spectrum On the removal question, the polls are on Clinton's side, and on the moral question, on which the polls are against Clinton, Democrats have acknowledged and condemned his misconduct. | Democrats are on both extreme ends of the spectrum. | neutral |
But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny. | He doesn't judge people to harshly who have different religious ideas than his own. | neutral |
On the dining table sit two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips. | Two terra-cotta pots of deep-pink species tulips are located on the dining table. | entailment |
Lucas II (1987, of the painter Lucas Samaras) has a wild-man intensity--part Ezra Pound, part Jerry Garcia--accentuated by Close's one-time experimentation with a radiating circular grid. | Lucas II was painted by Jerry Garcia. | contradiction |
Kahn's five-part series on Grains of the World or Elizabeth Drew's supposedly soporific reporting from Washington. | Elizabeth Drew is known for her rather unenergetic reporting style. | entailment |
Trent Lott recently called the agency intrusive, abusive, and out of control. | Lott has recently given the agency his support. | contradiction |
Both the NYT and WP run follow-on stories to last week's revelation that the government's drug office had a program of financial incentives for networks incorporating anti-drug themes into their shows. | NYT and WP followed up on network drug-themed stories this week. | neutral |
Wolf did both, by turning the issue into an object lesson on women's professional success. | Wolf turned the lesson into women's voting rights. | neutral |
THE DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN HER SIX MONTHS TO LIVE. | Doctors expect the person to die within 6 months due to cancer. | neutral |
Monday through Thursday, we go to press with the next day's edition at about 5 p.m. | The next day's issue is printed around 10 a.m. | contradiction |
And it reports that a friend says Sheen likes free-basing and he keeps loaded guns in the house. | The weapons in the house are handguns. | neutral |
' All of President Clinton's untruths, all of his lying under oath, if you will, about an extramarital relationship does not subvert the Constitution (Schumer). | President Clinton believes in telling the truth under oath. | contradiction |
Does computerization give ETS an unfair advantage? | Is ETS given an advantage by computers? | entailment |
In retrospect, though, two things seem clear. | The two points are disputed by a fair portion of the population. | 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. | The angelic tobacco company president (Michael Gambon) whose surety convinces Wigand to trust him. | contradiction |
In a sense, the advertising industry is reluctantly moving toward a business model much closer to the so-called free-agent economy than to the traditional idea of a corporation. | The advertising industry is making the transition with enthusiasm. | contradiction |
Yes, Sex, Please--We're Scientists! | Scientists hate sex. | contradiction |
The administration's spin is that demands and conditions are the opposite of negotiation. | The attitude was adopted by the administration in response to terrorism. | neutral |
But in the presence of competition among dealers, there is no difference between setting a standard of service and setting a retail For a given service standard, competition will lower the price until it's commensurate with the service standard, and for a given price, competition will raise the service standard until it's commensurate with the price. | Dealers prefer to compete with each other. | neutral |
What about the children? | The children have been fully taken care of and this topic does not need be addressed further. | contradiction |
It consists of a fixed image, like a slide or (closer still) a freeze frame. | It's made up of a moving image or short video. | contradiction |
Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue. | The media decided recently not to focus on these types of issues. | contradiction |
Along these same lines, I was recently in a retail store and the clerk had on a summer dress. | The clerk had on a summer dress in a store at was at recently. | entailment |
The 1960 World Book says that means Missouri supports itself and the United States, although it looks more like a poster for animal boxing, which might be the state sport of Missouri. | The World Book was around in 1960. | entailment |
White describes his wife Katherine, who, very sick in the fall of the last year of her life, goes out into the garden, as she has done every year before, to plant the spring bulbs she knew she would never live to see rise. | White's wife is living a long healthy life style. | contradiction |
The RPH who must legislate or govern (Gingrich, Kasich, Bush) is quieter about his principles--probably because he actually has to live by them. | If the RPH does not live by his word, he is publicly persecuted. | neutral |
(The Yankees have a 12-year, $486-million cable deal.) | Cable companies prefer hiring well known sports teams. | neutral |
But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed. | The hypotheses that Lang claim to be confirmed are definitely confirmed to everyone else. | neutral |
The answer to the question How does the device work? | Anybody can guess how the device worked. | contradiction |
This is the administration's favorite description. | The administration has other favorite descriptions along with this one. | neutral |
The media linked the case to other recent shootings (in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Kentucky) and focused on the warning signs and the importance of taking them seriously. | The recent shooters all sent clear signals of the risks they posed. | neutral |
Priest and director, St. Athanasius the Great International English School | St. Athanasius was a big school that only hired priests. | neutral |
Other no story line, cheap puns, and heavy-handed sexual innuendo. | The lack of a storyline does not matter in the evaluation of a creative piece. | contradiction |
But why should Bradley shut up about the Clinton-Gore fund-raising scandal? | Clinton-Gore should shut up about Bradley. | contradiction |
But Solitaire's so f****** hard . Who made those rules, anyway? | For newborn babies solitaire is easy to play. Thomas Edison made the rules. | contradiction |
Starr fought off the linkage, telling reporters that his criminal investigation was independent of the civil litigation. | The reporters' criminal investigation was fought off by Starr. | contradiction |
So now we are living in the world everyone has long claimed to where we judge politicians based only on the issues and their public records of governance. | Everyone is claiming that we have been blind to not see the nature of the world earlier. | neutral |
Pokemon creates an entire alternate universe, a land with its own cities, ecosystem, and rules. | Pokemon does not have it's own rules. | contradiction |
American Justin Leonard's 45-foot birdie putt on the 17 th hole set off a celebration on the course before his European opponent finished playing. | Leonard lost the golf tournament. | contradiction |
Don't faint when it happens. | When it occurs, don't faint. | entailment |
But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant. | Yeltsin never made any political appointments during his leadership. | contradiction |
A Life and a World , by Jenny Uglow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). | Jenny Uglow is the author of A Life and a World. | entailment |
My publishers will kill me if I don't mention my own biography of D.P. | My piece on D.P. is the main reason I am still hired by my company. | neutral |
Don't be surprised when it flops. | When it fails, you shouldn't be shocked. | entailment |
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