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Microsoft's position is a reflection of an economic phenomenon often referred to as network externalities (a k a positive economic feedback or increasing returns to scale).
Microsoft holds a position that is referred to as network internalities.
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For most American companies today, success depends on selling more of your product next year than you did this year.
The goal of companies is to sell as little as possible.
contradiction
In recent years, children's entertainment has contained an increasing number of apparently intentional or even obviously intentional gay references.
Over the past decade many children's programs are showing intentional gay references.
entailment
Other nation products--its purported AIDS cure, for instance--have undermined their claim that black businesses are less exploitative than white ones.
They claimed that businesses of black people treated people more unfairly than white people.
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The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.
Nobody likes Dominic other than the daughter.
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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 had a garden she planted bulbs in.
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The point is that you are not merely slicing up the same pie--you are increasing the size of the pie.
You're changing the size of the pie.
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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 free-agent economy is a new alternative to the corporation business model.
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The Sports Network probably attracts more attention than it deserves.
The Sports network doesn't have interesting shows.
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Maybe you'd better take the motorcycle helmet off.
Motorcycle helmets are illegal every state.
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But they conclude that all the choices available to Witztum and Rips created wiggle room, thus permitting the authors' biases to corrupt the results.
The results were corrupted because of author bias.
entailment
If he vetoes that, the president will have shut down the government.
The president may be forced to shut down the government.
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a member of the board of SANE/FREEZE, a leading disarmament group, and she has been affiliated with the Washington School, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
This woman is not involved in social
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And that's the key point.
There is a main point.
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What to do about that, I don't know.
I know exact what to do with this.
contradiction
For example, we asked Jeeves, Where can I find information about Bill Bradley and Medicaid?
We used Google to search on the subjects.
contradiction
To make matters even more confusing, there's a third version of the story involving an entirely different Murphy--not Capt.
There is more than one Murphy.
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And it implies that the Harlem racket reverted to local control.
Harlem racket went to local control.
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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 believe in any religion.
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Intimations of his own mortality turned out to be premature.
He died the year before.
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The problem was the constant struggle for supplies.
Some items are necessary for our survival
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If you use a computer to merge a lot of faces together, the result tends to look as fetching as Leonardo DiCaprio.
Merging lots of faces on a computer can only happen in the future because of the lack of computing power.
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The technophobic This is what we get for relying on gadgets.
Gadgets are irrelevant in our society.
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Clinton doesn't allow alcohol in the Oval Office because it might interfere with his potency.
The Oval Office did not see alcohol being consumed in it when Clinton was president.
entailment
Teen films no longer glorify drug use, but other than that, very little.
Drugs were never seen in teen films of the past.
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His writing is full of sentences that begin something like, As John Cage once asked me ...
He likes to name drop.
neutral
The New Yorker puzzles over Stern's His program is pure id--vile, cruel, crude--yet he remains a faithful husband and devoted father.
Both Stern's personal and his public persona are identical in nature.
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Wal-Mart still won't stock adult videos, although it no longer carries its own store editions of mainstream hits with the naughty bits edited out, as it was once rumored to do.
Wal-Mart was once rumored to carry its own store editions of mainstream hits.
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After clicking your purchases into a shopping cart, you are directed to a secure Netscape server that will encrypt your credit-card information.
The website includes a great variety of items with good prices.
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Other companies, such as Cognisoft, take this same approach to corporate intranets (internal networks), hoping that push technology will be even more useful in distributing the right information to the right employees.
More than one company is taking the same approach to corporate intranets.
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They are so dissimilar that they cannot contradict one another.
They're so different they must balance each other out.
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Henry Gonzalez, the nuttiest, most obsessive Democrat of the last generation.
Not many people don't know the Democrat Henry Gonzalez.
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Many responses were built on the assumption that Southern Baptists are bad in bed.
Many Southern Baptists don't care too much about having an "interesting" sexual life
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Movie stars can control their images.
Movie stars are in full control of how people view them.
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Conspiracy to commit a crime of violence prosecutable in federal court.
They were convicted because of the cruelty of the act they carried out.
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The writers had to make their points in terms that people of the time would understand.
People would understand whatever the writers decided to say.
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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.
Schumer refused to run the ad because he felt people wanted to see it.
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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.
Famine is only a memory of the past, whose place is in history books alone
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The rounded slinky movements of the dancelike kata looked specifically designed to develop grace, coordination, and balance.
Everyone thought the dance was sexy.
neutral
His masterpiece, Fallingwater, has been girded by steel scaffolding to prevent it from crumbling.
Fallingwater is a pillar of strength, it stands strong on it's own.
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The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success.
The advertising of the movement has been a failure, moneywise.
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This path has been smoothed by the nihilism of those Arab intellectuals--including Said--who prefer utopian dreams to a view of politics as the art of compromise.
This path would lead the Arab intellectuals, along Said, down a road that caused them to separate even further from the political leadership within their country, and to continue with their approach in how they be viewed to deal with issues.
neutral
LeTourneau was the boy's teacher in both second and sixth grades, and he describes their relationship When I was six or seven, she encouraged me in my drawing.
She encouraged my drawing in second and sixth grades.
neutral
4 billion is spent on medication and doctor visits . There is plenty of room for growth--only an estimated 12 percent of hay fever sufferers seek medical treatment.
The author believes that more could be spent on doctor visits to get more hay fever sufferers to the hospital.
entailment
Yet, we do cruel things to animals--smart animals, affectionate animals, cute animals--all the time.
Creatures are treated poorly a lot of the time.
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The final rooms feel like classrooms, with lessons hammered home.
Lessons are probably learned in final rooms.
neutral
But Solitaire's so f****** hard . Who made those rules, anyway?
It is hard for the very young to play solitaire. From where did the rules emanate?
neutral
Misconception #3: Workfare workers shouldn't do work unionized city workers used to do.
Everyone is in complete agreement that workfare workers mustn't do unionized work.
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Chatterbox will grant that some of this crude psychology may be at work.
People have doubted that crude psychology is at work.
neutral
The president and Betty Currie had some concern about her.
Both the top person presiding over the US and his secretary were not sure about her.
entailment
But Wellstone favors Kosovo intervention to stop the Holocaust-like atrocities occurring there.
Wellstone wants to stop holocaust type atrocities.
entailment
Asking political candidates to quantify their stands may seem unrealistic because they don't want to pin themselves down and because the audience will tune out.
An audience ain't going to listen to a politician drone on about their point of view.
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We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest.
The author wouldn't partake in philanthropy if he didn't get something out of it.
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PinochetAid concert.
There has never been a PinochetAid concert.
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Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.
The story of the co-op teach us that if you voted for Trump and he caused a financial crisis then you would have received the right punishment
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Shareholder value, which is shorthand for executives' obsession with their companies' stock prices, has become the prism through which most of corporate America now sees business.
Businesses are now judged by their shareholders’ value.
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Delicious dish, but watch out for the aftertaste.
There is an aftertaste to the scrumptious dish.
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Gibson chronicles his long degradation but can't begin to explain it.
Gibson at no point in his life felt degraded.
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Along these same lines, I was recently in a retail store and the clerk had on a summer dress.
The clerk had had on a solid color dress.
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They end up on the cover of Vanity Fair and Wired . They foreshadow the world in which we're all either symbolic analysts or hamburger flippers.
Vanity Fair and Wired made fun of analysts and burger flippers on their covers.
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Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive.
Coretta was a mascot.
entailment
That's why labor is making fewer endorsements.
Labor has never done an endorsement.
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How come you give George a pass?
You and George are strangers.
contradiction
The Globe claims that actress Sarah Michelle Gellar--whose thoughts on John Kennedy's passing are dutifully recorded in the Star 's Hollywood Weeps story--threw a lavish, catered birthday party for her dog, Thor, and 20 of his nearest and dearest.
Sarah Michelle Gellar opted to skip a dog birthday and rather donated the money to be spent on it to those in need.
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They do not clearly condemn as racist the actions, sometimes violent, that white ethnics in Chicago resorted to in the 1960s to keep blacks from moving into their neighborhoods.
White Chicago residents of the 60s were welcoming to anyone moving into their neighborhoods.
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Some people think you have it easier.
Not everyone thinks in the same way
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But just two weeks later, Charlton shared the distressing news that the couple's love life is being ruined by his penchant for antiques hunting on the He's apparently so caught up in his Net surfing that he forgets Jennifer's keeping his bed warm.
Charlton's wife is planning for a divorce.
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Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue.
The media have shown inordinate focus on stories in the past.
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And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall.
Clinton quoted Morris many times.
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It keeps doing that.
It does that a lot.
entailment
Michael Kelly's WP column about Ken Starr vs.
Kelly wrote about Ken Starr.
entailment
Another favorite Republican cause is the Small Business Administration, which exists to make loans to companies that banks deem nonviable.
The Small Business Administration is a Republican cause which makes loans to businesses considered impractical by banks.
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When they arrived there, they met some neighbors from home who told them about a sign saying NO CANADIANS.
Other neighbors put up the NO CANADIANS sign.
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Better health care affects athletic ability directly.
Being exposed to a more robust health system influences atheletes.
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And those damn video games.
The video games are loved.
contradiction
If there is a cultural civil war going on, the Mediaphiles--led by Wall Street--have routed the 'phobes.
Wall Street and the Mediaphiles have a lot in common.
entailment
When you run for president, you've got to think of the whole country, not just your own state.
The president must focus primarily on the needs of the state they comes from
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He paved the way for the Bronsons and Chuck Norrises and Seagals and Jean-Claude Van Dammes and all the other righteous slayers of post-midnight cable-movie-channel programming.
He paved the way for Chuck Norris as a righteous slayer.
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4 The instability of Syria and the Palestinian Authority.
Palestinian Authority is in charge of the government of Syria
contradiction
Statements from Gore, McCain, Bradley, and Bush indicate they favor holding off on any general privacy legislation to allow industry to self-regulate by posting privacy policies and developing guidelines to ensure that consumers understand how their personally identifying information will be used.
All four politicians approve of a hands-off approach to general privacy legislation.
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(Though here I'm tempted to respond that it's a mistake to generalize about human behavior on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals who probably--and quite atypically--love their work.)
It's encouraged to make sweeping assumptions about us by using a handful of special cases.
contradiction
According to Kristol, Deputy Editor John Podhoretz turned down Tucker Carlson's Norquist proposal because he didn't want the magazine to be seen as carrying on a vendetta against Gingrich.
The proposal was shot down by the Deputy Editor because the magazine wants to move on from the Gingrich dilemma.
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Also in Newsweek , an essay by Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that American foreign aid and investment will improve human rights.
Hilary cares about human rights improvement.
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But sadly, I haven't had sex in five years.
I had sex just now.
contradiction
Can you suggest a metaphor for rationalizing my past?
I'm unwilling to hear any analogies of my past that you want to give me.
contradiction
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is in the cardiac intensive-care unit of a Moscow hospital.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn holds a PhD in cardiac surgery
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Poor Beatty has a need to think Clintonite Democrats aren't tackling race and poverty, much like Marx had a need for a proletariat, except that Marx's need was theoretical, while Beatty's is only theatrical.
Beatty was being theatrical.
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For people who are not immersed in recovery but are receptive to the notion of sex addiction, the president's dysfunction simply means that, like Ken Starr, he is out of control.
Ken Starr and the President both had difficulties managing their afflictions.
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In the lobby, children waiting for music lessons bend over their homework, mom perched at their shoulder.
Only mothers and their children are in the lobby.
neutral
At the first, Brock, under the guise of fairness, slings enough mud to drown a Bangladeshi village.
Brock is fair.
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Bang on drums and try to get the talking stick away from a weepy Tom DeLay.
Stopping Tom DeLay is easy.
contradiction
There must be that between them, she thought.
She thought that there was something between them.
entailment
Revealed Clinton family troubles immediately after his pastoral visit.
The president visited a pastor before.
entailment
Everyone wonders what Starr will do.
Everyone is curious about what Starr get's paid.
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After a great Moyers show, viewers nod in agreement.
The viewers were pleased with what they saw.
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Similarly, you're advised to avert your glance from the making of sausages, and laws, and presumably laws about the manufacture of sausages to be fried up in some restaurant that you won't be visiting.
Find all the information concerning this matter.
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By forbidding its dealers to compete with each other via prices, Schwinn forces them to compete with each other via quality of service, to the ultimate benefit of consumers.
Consumers prefer quality service to low prices.
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Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression.
Keeping a positive outlook has been one of the causes of the Great Depression
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They thought Bob Dole lost in 1996 because he was mean and distant.
People hated Bod Dole's suits.
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He was evading a question about Universal's troubled Pig in the City . He's under oath.
He answered questions about Universal's Pig in the City.
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