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The critics I spoke to, however, offered credible arguments.	The arguments of the critics seemed convincing.	entailment
All this is called devolution, to rhyme with evolution (and not to rhyme with revolution).	Devolution rhymes with evolution	entailment
Strong genetic differences among dog breeds are not just the result of natural selection.	Dog breeds have significant differences in their genes.	entailment
Prusiner has yet to show, for instance, that a protein sans nucleic acid can be infectious, and consequently, he has invoked the potential involvement of yet another agent in the disease process (although he insists it has no nucleic acid and calls it Protein X).	Prusiner has more work to do to prove that a protein sans nucleic acid is infectious.	entailment
But the overall thrust of the incarceration section of the 1994 edition is that too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.	The author has been educated in law enforcement.	neutral
Out of her stillness she suddenly shrieks, not as an appeal but as a demand, I'm a human being!	She abrubptly schreeched like a banshee.	entailment
To some extent, Miller's fate is that of the Broadway stage.	Miller and Broadway have similar features.	neutral
And the signs made it easier for visitors to find their way around.	The signs were made of cardboard.	neutral
Last year the British publication of these never-published 39 poems occasioned accusations of misogyny, sordidness, and racism (one of the poems is titled King Bolo and his Big Black Kween).	This is the first time the British publication did not publish poems that had offensive connotation.	neutral
The Taliban is both a product of and a reaction to the civil war that has gripped Afghanistan since the demise of the Soviet-backed regime in 1992.	The Taliban came about after the Soviet Union fell apart.	entailment
The stock options market doesn't make it easier for companies to go public, or for existing companies to raise money.	It's tough for companies to go public, or raise money within the stock options market.	entailment
Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement?	He had an achievement that was challenged by others.	entailment
The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.	Men and women have left the tough cities.	entailment
American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective.	Citizens of the US really loved the artistically written words from his works.	contradiction
Speaking of Turkey, in honor of Thanksgiving Slate has published a full week's issue as of today (Wednesday, Nov. 26), two days early.	Slate publishes a week's issue of certain holidays including Thanksgiving.	entailment
But there are only a few of us who possess a stout enough psychological profile to allow ourselves or even imagine ourselves purchasing a big cushy wonder boy or girl reclining chair.	Who buys reclining chairs with a cushy wonder boy or girl is tendentially deviated	neutral
It was not always this way.	It has always been like this.	contradiction
Chamber of Commerce spent $7 million on advertising in support of GOP candidates	The Republicans would receive a pittance from the institution.	contradiction
Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward	The strategy is actually beneficial, but it isn't realized yet.	neutral
In the 1990s, northern fiscal conservatives such as Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman have backed free-trade agreements such as NAFTA.	Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman were alive in 1820.	contradiction
In January 1996, Qaddafi promised the nation a $1-billion gift, which has not been received because of U.S. sanctions against Libya.	US used to be an adversary of the Libya	entailment
Critics' principal target is the company's policy of pegging doctors' investment returns to profits at Columbia/HCA-affiliated institutions.	Pegging doctors returns on investments to profits at columbia/HCA affiliated institutions is a policy of the company.	entailment
Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy.	Farrow is dreary and immersed in a deep and downcast state.	entailment
Of these, or the many other similar examples I've collected, there is no mention in the book . The reason that I didn't mention them was that to do so seemed to me a cheap shot--concentrating on the ephemeral and the inconsequential--the scummy froth atop the waves of any discourse.	I was unable to collect samples.	contradiction
Upon him All ultimatelyrests.	He has little say in what happens in life.	contradiction
They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.	This company had abundant resources for the litigations, and its existence wasn't in jeopardy	contradiction
He has already demonstrated his acumen at milking the confrontation with Helms for its maximum theatrical and political value.	He has also shown his skill as a comedian with the added comedy.	neutral
House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep.	Dick Armey is a republican.	entailment
But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.	The think-tank scholar killed.	neutral
Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination.	Yesterday, a letter writer who once chewed the fat with the spy claimed that to the dead man's knowledge, U.K. authorities carried out Diem's assassination.	contradiction
In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her.	Althea died in the bath tub.	entailment
A Saving Private Ryan backlash begins.	A backlash for Saving Private Ryan began.	entailment
It's also possible that experience will lead them to approximate rationality, and they'll reduce their bids.	Experience will help them realize approximate rationality and hopefully reduce their bids.	entailment
And to show me the famous window of the Defenestration of Prague, the glorious day in May 1618 during the Thirty Years War when two royal Catholic officers had been hurled from the window by the Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet--and being in Prague, had landed on a haystack below.	Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet currently praise the window.	neutral
The flames are nearly a foot high, they arc out from underneath the black leather hood; there is smoke, the huge buzzing sound of the electricity, there are white walls and Venetian blinds and linoleum underfoot.	The flames are smokeless.	contradiction
At its worst, it's become a new refuge for the untalented musician, a fact that Ryan Adams from the band Whiskeytown owns up to in the song Faithless Street: I had started this damn country band/ 'cause punk rock was too hard to sing.	Ryan Adams' band, Whiskeytown, would find a fair bit of success within the country music scene, as in comparison to his time while performing punk rock.	neutral
An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.	Editorial writers agree wholeheartedly with the proposal.	contradiction
Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists.	It happens to get confused with the name of the other persons	entailment
Critics also welcome his ambivalence on Russia's Unlike most Russia watchers, Mr.	He had mixed feelings about Russia.	entailment
Oddly, this part of the 20/20 segment isn't quite as damaging to Ellis as the raw interview transcript was.	The 20/20 portion was the most harmful thing to Ellis.	contradiction
Those children who are struggling, and hence more likely to burden their parents (say, by returning to live with them), get extra help in the hope that they (the children) will become self-sufficient.	When children are having problems sustaining independence, they are more likely to come back home.	entailment
The key ingredient seems to be averageness.	Averageness sometimes leads to greatness.	neutral
Second, a humbler labor movement might be less likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut its larger purpose.	Undercutting it's bigger purpose might be more likely than cutting shortsighted political deals to a humbler labor movenent.	entailment
Henry V would have inspired no one on St. Crispin's day by	Nobody was emotionally lifted up by the king.	entailment
Impossible, argued Albright and He will not stop until he is forced to do so.	Albright argued it may be possible.	contradiction
In the new mall, like the old one, there is no escape.	The former mall was smaller than the current mall.	neutral
Tudjman, who is fond of Il Duce-type uniforms, rigged the parliamentary elections so that his nationalist party, HDZ, could not lose.	The parliamentary elections were free of fraud and malfeasance.	contradiction
In the short term, though, it's possible to get too many Planet Hollywoods and not enough Intels.	In the long term, it's possible to get too many Intels.	neutral
Some places are so boring that that's what's comically interesting about Peoria, Encino, Cleveland.	It would be hard for Peoria, Encino, and Cleveland to shake their reputation as being dull and very boring places to be, which would always place them at the center of lots of jokes in the coming future.	neutral
two or more of the above.	You can choose more than one option above.	entailment
America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not.	America never had a middle class society.	contradiction
Of course the little things matter.	All little things are as important as the big things.	neutral
But, says Kull, One would not expect a real bounce until you see some signs of success.	When you see signs of success, that's when one can expect a serious bounce.	entailment
His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.	He feels if he can win Congress back he can shut down any Hill inquiries.	entailment
Schumer immediately countered by running the D'Amato commercial in New York City, labeling it the ad Al D'Amato doesn't want you to see.	The ad Al D'Amato doesn't want you to see was ran in New York City.	entailment
Even the singers don't like these songs.	The songs are well received by the people who sing.	contradiction
Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.	To crack down on political compulsives is very expensive.	contradiction
Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.	Every lost sale means a lost potential customer of Firefox.	contradiction
There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood.	There was no kind of pigs	entailment
That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers.	Teachers need to be paid more due to all the hard work they due.	entailment
ABC's problems, one suspects, will be much harder to solve, if only because they have much to do with network television as a whole and not just ABC in particular.	ABC had difficult problems to solve.	entailment
I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches.	I need something to help me recall the good and the bad.	neutral
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 Liggett Group refused mediation and waited for the judge to issue a verdict.	contradiction
Second, that the rankings suffer from a serious conceptual flaw.	The rankings are not conceptually perfection.	entailment
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 was very involved in every step of the project.	contradiction
Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked?	They plead their case in order to keep their license as a practicing economist.	neutral
Bakis, with admirable audacity, has set herself the almost impossible task of making these dogs 'human' and just misses the mark, says the Journal . Fugitive Pieces is a poetic telling of the life of a Holocaust-survivor-turned-poet.	Bakis wanted to make the dogs like a human with a tail.	entailment
But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.	People and animals were usually considered separate.	neutral
Bush, or the Al Gore who is.	It could be both Bush and Al Gore.	neutral
The Booker, and all the laurels, are about my past, not my future, says this ace of the apothegm.	The future could be just as successful as the past.	neutral
Lied about it to everyone .	Everyone was told the truth.	contradiction
Please don't print my name because I want	One wants their name printed.	contradiction
The only people in Greenville who support the Southern Connector are the highway contractors who will benefit financially from the project.	The highway contractors will rebuild the connector for profit.	neutral
And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.	Funding was enhanced by Gates' name.	entailment
Congress cannot impose community service on the president without his permission--that would be an unconstitutional bill of attainder.	The president has community service imposed on him without his permission.	contradiction
Norquist has been spreading the word that Rupert Murdoch, the Standard 's owner, must stop funding the magazine.	Murdoch recently sold the Standard.	contradiction
The Justice Department asked Starr to look into allegations that his prosecutors improperly tried to cut an immunity deal with Lewinsky during their January 1998 sting without her lawyer present.	Lewinsky had her lawyer present there with her when the Justice Department ran on sting operation on her.	contradiction
Most Americans will have a tough time living up to its standards.	The standards are high for the majority of Americans.	entailment
The technophobic This is what we get for relying on gadgets.	Technophobia is caused by overuse of gadgets.	neutral
But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.	Offensive language has become unacceptable in the 20th century.	contradiction
As federal employees, postal workers are not allowed to strike and, if a negotiated settlement cannot be reached, contractual disputes are resolved by binding arbitration.	Postal workers have a union representative for arbitration.	neutral
to be such excellent quiz wranglers.	Some people are particularly skilled in handling quizzes.	entailment
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori has worked well enough to send countless young men to their deaths through the ages.	Young men have died due to Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.	entailment
Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.	Dialogue is important to sustain a democracy.	neutral
I suppose it is aging that has changed my attitude.	The author is presumed to be middle aged.	neutral
But I hope the British people will see it in the spirit in which it is intended--one of reconciliation and peace and hopes for the future.	The British people hope for the reconciliation of the spirit in the future.	neutral
Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.	Boris badly injured his hand.	entailment
In the old days, nobody paid much attention, and the artists on NEA panels were free to make meritorious decisions.	Back in the day, the NEA panel artists were allowed to make praise worthy decisions because of lack of attention.	entailment
Good Kids watch less television.	If your child watches 20 hours of television a day, he or she is almost certainly a good kid.	contradiction
Atom Egoyan, the Canadian director ( Exotica , 1994; The Sweet Hereafter , 1997) who adapted and directed the book, does tender, morbidly evocative work.	Egoyan's work is easily palatable by the masses due to its upbeat and fun nature.	contradiction
Moyers was an aide to the most political and confrontational of presidents, but he is the world champion of consensus, the patron saint in the church of Deborah Tannen.	Moyers is a person who fights against other presidents that also want to fight.	contradiction
Critics are surprisingly positive about the singer/songwriter/best-selling poet/soon-to-be film actress' second album after the 8 million copy selling Pieces of You . Musically she has matured, and her trademark folksy-bluesy-pop songs are dubbed sweet, soulful (Veronica Chambers, Newsweek ). The lyrics, however are said to be full of hokey self-helpisms, and the album overflows with advice intended to be inspirational (Jon Pareles, the New York Times ). (Buy the album online.)	The album is due to be released next week.	neutral
Massachusetts' highest court decided that British au pair Louise Woodward will not go back to jail.	Louise Woodward is now free to leave the state.	neutral
We Americans mocked the militarism of German youth in the '30s, and now we're embracing Louis Caldera's ballistic schemes.	Although we once mocked others, we are now caressing Caldera's plans.	entailment
The military's officer corps, especially the Army's, has been successfully transformed from a clubby elite, where promotions depended on golfing partners, into a more integrated meritocracy.	Golfing partners were transformed in the officer corps.	neutral
And has the following point been made on the Op-Ed that Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty have chosen to attack centrist Democrats as cynical sellouts who ignore American poverty just when, according to the Census Bureau, those cynical centrists are making the greatest strides against poverty that have been made in my adult lifetime?	Huffington and Beatty are attacking centrist Democrats.	entailment
Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!	A multitude of tobacco dealers in the room sat tight-lipped.	contradiction
Wolf sees the telling of her own personal experiences as a triumph for all women.	Due to her incredible experiences, Wolf sees a triumph for all women.	entailment
But the answer is noooo . I mean, why should I agree now?	One feels as though the answer is definitely not yes.	entailment
If, as we say, there is one God, surely he is God of the whole universe, including the gentiles.	Belief in one God does not mean that there is only one God.	neutral

The critics I spoke to, however, offered credible arguments.

The arguments of the critics seemed convincing.

entailment

All this is called devolution, to rhyme with evolution (and not to rhyme with revolution).

Devolution rhymes with evolution

entailment

Strong genetic differences among dog breeds are not just the result of natural selection.

Dog breeds have significant differences in their genes.

entailment

Prusiner has yet to show, for instance, that a protein sans nucleic acid can be infectious, and consequently, he has invoked the potential involvement of yet another agent in the disease process (although he insists it has no nucleic acid and calls it Protein X).

Prusiner has more work to do to prove that a protein sans nucleic acid is infectious.

entailment

But the overall thrust of the incarceration section of the 1994 edition is that too many criminals are avoiding jail sentences.

The author has been educated in law enforcement.

neutral

Out of her stillness she suddenly shrieks, not as an appeal but as a demand, I'm a human being!

She abrubptly schreeched like a banshee.

entailment

To some extent, Miller's fate is that of the Broadway stage.

Miller and Broadway have similar features.

neutral

And the signs made it easier for visitors to find their way around.

The signs were made of cardboard.

neutral

Last year the British publication of these never-published 39 poems occasioned accusations of misogyny, sordidness, and racism (one of the poems is titled King Bolo and his Big Black Kween).

This is the first time the British publication did not publish poems that had offensive connotation.

neutral

The Taliban is both a product of and a reaction to the civil war that has gripped Afghanistan since the demise of the Soviet-backed regime in 1992.

The Taliban came about after the Soviet Union fell apart.

entailment

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

It's tough for companies to go public, or raise money within the stock options market.

entailment

Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement?

He had an achievement that was challenged by others.

entailment

The tough cities that such women and their fugitive men once haunted are nowhere to be found.

Men and women have left the tough cities.

entailment

American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective.

Citizens of the US really loved the artistically written words from his works.

contradiction

Speaking of Turkey, in honor of Thanksgiving Slate has published a full week's issue as of today (Wednesday, Nov. 26), two days early.

Slate publishes a week's issue of certain holidays including Thanksgiving.

entailment

But there are only a few of us who possess a stout enough psychological profile to allow ourselves or even imagine ourselves purchasing a big cushy wonder boy or girl reclining chair.

Who buys reclining chairs with a cushy wonder boy or girl is tendentially deviated

neutral

It was not always this way.

It has always been like this.

contradiction

Chamber of Commerce spent $7 million on advertising in support of GOP candidates

The Republicans would receive a pittance from the institution.

contradiction

Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward

The strategy is actually beneficial, but it isn't realized yet.

neutral

In the 1990s, northern fiscal conservatives such as Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman have backed free-trade agreements such as NAFTA.

Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman were alive in 1820.

contradiction

In January 1996, Qaddafi promised the nation a $1-billion gift, which has not been received because of U.S. sanctions against Libya.

US used to be an adversary of the Libya

entailment

Critics' principal target is the company's policy of pegging doctors' investment returns to profits at Columbia/HCA-affiliated institutions.

Pegging doctors returns on investments to profits at columbia/HCA affiliated institutions is a policy of the company.

entailment

Farrow is humorless and steeped in a bottomless melancholy.

Farrow is dreary and immersed in a deep and downcast state.

entailment

Of these, or the many other similar examples I've collected, there is no mention in the book . The reason that I didn't mention them was that to do so seemed to me a cheap shot--concentrating on the ephemeral and the inconsequential--the scummy froth atop the waves of any discourse.

I was unable to collect samples.

contradiction

Upon him All ultimatelyrests.

He has little say in what happens in life.

contradiction

They were spending obscene amounts of money on litigation--as much as $750 million a year, by one account--and the strain of wondering if this case would be the one that broke the bank couldn't have made working at these companies much fun.

This company had abundant resources for the litigations, and its existence wasn't in jeopardy

contradiction

He has already demonstrated his acumen at milking the confrontation with Helms for its maximum theatrical and political value.

He has also shown his skill as a comedian with the added comedy.

neutral

House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Texas, has compared Barr to former Rep.

Dick Armey is a republican.

entailment

But I have been unable to visualize one think-tank scholar killing another.

The think-tank scholar killed.

neutral

Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination.

Yesterday, a letter writer who once chewed the fat with the spy claimed that to the dead man's knowledge, U.K. authorities carried out Diem's assassination.

contradiction

In the film's account of Althea's 1987 bathtub death, Larry propels his wheelchair into the bathroom and tries to save her.

Althea died in the bath tub.

entailment

A Saving Private Ryan backlash begins.

A backlash for Saving Private Ryan began.

entailment

It's also possible that experience will lead them to approximate rationality, and they'll reduce their bids.

Experience will help them realize approximate rationality and hopefully reduce their bids.

entailment

And to show me the famous window of the Defenestration of Prague, the glorious day in May 1618 during the Thirty Years War when two royal Catholic officers had been hurled from the window by the Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet--and being in Prague, had landed on a haystack below.

Protestant members of the Bohemian Diet currently praise the window.

neutral

The flames are nearly a foot high, they arc out from underneath the black leather hood; there is smoke, the huge buzzing sound of the electricity, there are white walls and Venetian blinds and linoleum underfoot.

The flames are smokeless.

contradiction

At its worst, it's become a new refuge for the untalented musician, a fact that Ryan Adams from the band Whiskeytown owns up to in the song Faithless Street: I had started this damn country band/ 'cause punk rock was too hard to sing.

Ryan Adams' band, Whiskeytown, would find a fair bit of success within the country music scene, as in comparison to his time while performing punk rock.

neutral

An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession.

Editorial writers agree wholeheartedly with the proposal.

contradiction

Mark Shields looks directly at Robert Novak on Capital Gang and calls him Al Hunt, much to the amusement of the other panelists.

It happens to get confused with the name of the other persons

entailment

Critics also welcome his ambivalence on Russia's Unlike most Russia watchers, Mr.

He had mixed feelings about Russia.

entailment

Oddly, this part of the 20/20 segment isn't quite as damaging to Ellis as the raw interview transcript was.

The 20/20 portion was the most harmful thing to Ellis.

contradiction

Those children who are struggling, and hence more likely to burden their parents (say, by returning to live with them), get extra help in the hope that they (the children) will become self-sufficient.

When children are having problems sustaining independence, they are more likely to come back home.

entailment

The key ingredient seems to be averageness.

Averageness sometimes leads to greatness.

neutral

Second, a humbler labor movement might be less likely to cut shortsighted political deals that undercut its larger purpose.

Undercutting it's bigger purpose might be more likely than cutting shortsighted political deals to a humbler labor movenent.

entailment

Henry V would have inspired no one on St. Crispin's day by

Nobody was emotionally lifted up by the king.

entailment

Impossible, argued Albright and He will not stop until he is forced to do so.

Albright argued it may be possible.

contradiction

In the new mall, like the old one, there is no escape.

The former mall was smaller than the current mall.

neutral

Tudjman, who is fond of Il Duce-type uniforms, rigged the parliamentary elections so that his nationalist party, HDZ, could not lose.

The parliamentary elections were free of fraud and malfeasance.

contradiction

In the short term, though, it's possible to get too many Planet Hollywoods and not enough Intels.

In the long term, it's possible to get too many Intels.

neutral

Some places are so boring that that's what's comically interesting about Peoria, Encino, Cleveland.

It would be hard for Peoria, Encino, and Cleveland to shake their reputation as being dull and very boring places to be, which would always place them at the center of lots of jokes in the coming future.

neutral

two or more of the above.

You can choose more than one option above.

entailment

America in the 1950s was a middle-class society in a way that America in the 1990s is not.

America never had a middle class society.

contradiction

Of course the little things matter.

All little things are as important as the big things.

neutral

But, says Kull, One would not expect a real bounce until you see some signs of success.

When you see signs of success, that's when one can expect a serious bounce.

entailment

His delaying strategy is to run the clock down until the November elections, then win Congress back with just 12 new seats and shut down the Hill investigations with his new majority.

He feels if he can win Congress back he can shut down any Hill inquiries.

entailment

Schumer immediately countered by running the D'Amato commercial in New York City, labeling it the ad Al D'Amato doesn't want you to see.

The ad Al D'Amato doesn't want you to see was ran in New York City.

entailment

Even the singers don't like these songs.

The songs are well received by the people who sing.

contradiction

Likewise, cracking down on compulsives is also politically cost-effective.

To crack down on political compulsives is very expensive.

contradiction

Second, with each of those lost sales, it loses a potential user of Internet Explorer.

Every lost sale means a lost potential customer of Firefox.

contradiction

There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood.

There was no kind of pigs

entailment

That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all this seems like a good argument for better pay scales and reform in the educational system that produces teachers.

Teachers need to be paid more due to all the hard work they due.

entailment

ABC's problems, one suspects, will be much harder to solve, if only because they have much to do with network television as a whole and not just ABC in particular.

ABC had difficult problems to solve.

entailment

I also hope that the oxymoron will remind me to include applause as well as condemnation in my dispatches.

I need something to help me recall the good and the bad.

neutral

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 Liggett Group refused mediation and waited for the judge to issue a verdict.

contradiction

Second, that the rankings suffer from a serious conceptual flaw.

The rankings are not conceptually perfection.

entailment

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 was very involved in every step of the project.

contradiction

Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked?

They plead their case in order to keep their license as a practicing economist.

neutral

Bakis, with admirable audacity, has set herself the almost impossible task of making these dogs 'human' and just misses the mark, says the Journal . Fugitive Pieces is a poetic telling of the life of a Holocaust-survivor-turned-poet.

Bakis wanted to make the dogs like a human with a tail.

entailment

But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.

People and animals were usually considered separate.

neutral

Bush, or the Al Gore who is.

It could be both Bush and Al Gore.

neutral

The Booker, and all the laurels, are about my past, not my future, says this ace of the apothegm.

The future could be just as successful as the past.

neutral

Lied about it to everyone .

Everyone was told the truth.

contradiction

Please don't print my name because I want

One wants their name printed.

contradiction

The only people in Greenville who support the Southern Connector are the highway contractors who will benefit financially from the project.

The highway contractors will rebuild the connector for profit.

neutral

And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.

Funding was enhanced by Gates' name.

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Congress cannot impose community service on the president without his permission--that would be an unconstitutional bill of attainder.

The president has community service imposed on him without his permission.

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Norquist has been spreading the word that Rupert Murdoch, the Standard 's owner, must stop funding the magazine.

Murdoch recently sold the Standard.

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The Justice Department asked Starr to look into allegations that his prosecutors improperly tried to cut an immunity deal with Lewinsky during their January 1998 sting without her lawyer present.

Lewinsky had her lawyer present there with her when the Justice Department ran on sting operation on her.

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Most Americans will have a tough time living up to its standards.

The standards are high for the majority of Americans.

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The technophobic This is what we get for relying on gadgets.

Technophobia is caused by overuse of gadgets.

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But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness.

Offensive language has become unacceptable in the 20th century.

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As federal employees, postal workers are not allowed to strike and, if a negotiated settlement cannot be reached, contractual disputes are resolved by binding arbitration.

Postal workers have a union representative for arbitration.

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to be such excellent quiz wranglers.

Some people are particularly skilled in handling quizzes.

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori has worked well enough to send countless young men to their deaths through the ages.

Young men have died due to Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

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Don't obstruct good ideas just so you can win.

Dialogue is important to sustain a democracy.

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I suppose it is aging that has changed my attitude.

The author is presumed to be middle aged.

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But I hope the British people will see it in the spirit in which it is intended--one of reconciliation and peace and hopes for the future.

The British people hope for the reconciliation of the spirit in the future.

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Boris shot up his hand and Kerensky did not make the February revolution.

Boris badly injured his hand.

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In the old days, nobody paid much attention, and the artists on NEA panels were free to make meritorious decisions.

Back in the day, the NEA panel artists were allowed to make praise worthy decisions because of lack of attention.

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Good Kids watch less television.

If your child watches 20 hours of television a day, he or she is almost certainly a good kid.

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Atom Egoyan, the Canadian director ( Exotica , 1994; The Sweet Hereafter , 1997) who adapted and directed the book, does tender, morbidly evocative work.

Egoyan's work is easily palatable by the masses due to its upbeat and fun nature.

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Moyers was an aide to the most political and confrontational of presidents, but he is the world champion of consensus, the patron saint in the church of Deborah Tannen.

Moyers is a person who fights against other presidents that also want to fight.

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Critics are surprisingly positive about the singer/songwriter/best-selling poet/soon-to-be film actress' second album after the 8 million copy selling Pieces of You . Musically she has matured, and her trademark folksy-bluesy-pop songs are dubbed sweet, soulful (Veronica Chambers, Newsweek ). The lyrics, however are said to be full of hokey self-helpisms, and the album overflows with advice intended to be inspirational (Jon Pareles, the New York Times ). (Buy the album online.)

The album is due to be released next week.

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Massachusetts' highest court decided that British au pair Louise Woodward will not go back to jail.

Louise Woodward is now free to leave the state.

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We Americans mocked the militarism of German youth in the '30s, and now we're embracing Louis Caldera's ballistic schemes.

Although we once mocked others, we are now caressing Caldera's plans.

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The military's officer corps, especially the Army's, has been successfully transformed from a clubby elite, where promotions depended on golfing partners, into a more integrated meritocracy.

Golfing partners were transformed in the officer corps.

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And has the following point been made on the Op-Ed that Arianna Huffington and Warren Beatty have chosen to attack centrist Democrats as cynical sellouts who ignore American poverty just when, according to the Census Bureau, those cynical centrists are making the greatest strides against poverty that have been made in my adult lifetime?

Huffington and Beatty are attacking centrist Democrats.

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Once auction invoked the incomprehensible high-speed chatter of a tobacco dealer, building to the giddy crescendo, Sold American!

A multitude of tobacco dealers in the room sat tight-lipped.

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Wolf sees the telling of her own personal experiences as a triumph for all women.

Due to her incredible experiences, Wolf sees a triumph for all women.

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But the answer is noooo . I mean, why should I agree now?

One feels as though the answer is definitely not yes.

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If, as we say, there is one God, surely he is God of the whole universe, including the gentiles.

Belief in one God does not mean that there is only one God.

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