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The villains were the blacklisters.	The blacklister did something serious to be considered villains	neutral
There's something about [Corgan's] whole grandiosity that is very four years ago.	Corgan's grandiosity will be around for at least another year.	neutral
Lind means to debunk minimal realism, the argument that the United States should do only those things in the world that it really has to do, because the great evils it must avoid are overextension and overcommitment.	Minimal realism suggests that one should overextend and overcommit in each endeavor throughout the world.	contradiction
These notes were subpoenaed by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr on June 21, 1996.	Kenneth Starr subpoenaed Hillary Clinton's notes on June 21, 1996 while investigating Whitewater.	entailment
(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.	It's been awhile since they've been erect.	neutral
Prudie guesses it's the Hepburn aura you're going for, since, unlike you, there was no Marilyn Monroe body underneath all those tailored clothes.	Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe had different body types and looks.	entailment
They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.	I did not join the right-wing press.	entailment
The cover article urges the GOP and the Christian right to compromise.	The article is in favor of amity between the GOP and the Christian right.	entailment
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 slayed the Chuck Norrises of post-midnight programming.	contradiction
She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water.	She believes that fuel-cell engines in cars will be the wave of the future.	entailment
The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law.	Federal laws question those under 13's privacy.	contradiction
That leaves Case 1. But if you believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of your fabulously wealthy grandchildren, you must also believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of Bill Gates.	A person has no rights to the wealth of others, whether it be a personal connection or a public one.	entailment
Songs like their biggest hit, , are sense-less but skillful pastiches of classic Beatles moments.	Their songs are as far from the Beatles as the earth is to the sky.	contradiction
Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.	Short term losses due to strikes are very important to investors.	contradiction
Almost instantly, kids in each group formed bonds of loyalty and group identification.	The kids in each group were rude to each other.	contradiction
If he does a better job, those citizenships will become more valuable, and he'll get a better price for them.	The value of the citizenships was affected by the success of his job	entailment
And U.K. giant British Telecom purchased MCI.	MCI was purchased by British Telecom.	entailment
The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information.	Certain conversations could just be vague.	neutral
Civility is not one of the major virtues.	Being civil is not thought of as a key point when humans think of morality.	entailment
Or you can download a new copy from www.microsoft.com/ie/.)	You can not download the copy from the Microsoft website.	contradiction
That is not a Medicare or Medicaid cut, he reassured seniors.	Medicare and Medicaid was for sure going to be cut.	contradiction
But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.	Rips is waiting until he is ready to address the dispute.	contradiction
But (as Stein pointed out in the Committee), every dollar Social Security invests privately, instead of lending to the Treasury (as happens now), is an extra dollar the government must borrow from private capital markets to finance the national debt.	Every dollar invested in the Treasury mean the government must borrow more from private capital markets.	contradiction
I suggest a test to resolve the matter.	If you think you are a good problem solver, I suggest you take a test.	entailment
These groups give workers a selection of plans and reduce paperwork hassles for employers.	Workers can decide which plan to use based on preference.	entailment
is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.	The article was also used by them later. to help validate an additional argument in their favor.	neutral
Could we curb Milosevic's aggression through diplomacy rather than bombing?	If diplomacy does not work they will use a bomb.	entailment
Possession of a firearm or destructive device (i.e.	Disposing of firearms.	contradiction
In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision.	Sawyer took full responsibility for this decision	contradiction
Recognizing that the Internet effectively wipes out national borders, and fearing that the development of new technologies may be impeded by inconsistent tax policies, the federal government has been studying the issue of international tariffs on Internet transactions.	The government has not found anyone that has used the tax policies to their advantage.	neutral
But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.	His Republican opponents faltered.	entailment
But I love it even more because it has saved me so much trouble.	They adore it becasue it has saved them a lot of hassle.	entailment
Privatization means allowing individuals to invest for themselves all or part of what they and their employers put into Social Security.	Privatization is the best option for investing in yourself.	neutral
I see a method to his madness.	The process works very well.	neutral
As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.	Americans in the 1780s took it into their own hands to check how excessive the legislators had gotten.	contradiction
We're prejudging this thing [when we say] it doesn't meet the standard of the high crimes and misdemeanors.	Although we believe this particular incident that has just arose is not related, we can expect to see more murders in the upcoming month.	neutral
Need a good book store with a series of author appearances, maybe starting with Susan Faludi?	Susan Faludi is an author.	neutral
Some people want a Caddy and others want a Chevy, he shrugs.	Some people want a luxury sedan.	entailment
Latin American gangs routinely kidnap rich foreign executives and demand multimillion-dollar ransoms.	Foreign executives are often the target of Latin American gangs.	entailment
As soon as I announced a uniform price of $5, my neighbor would announce a price of $4.	The speaker is always lower than the neighbor.	contradiction
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.	The Clintonite Democrats rallied for poverty more than ten times.	neutral
Many teen-agers are not moved by the possibility of an early death in four decades.	Dying 40 years from now is not something that bothers most teens.	entailment
We received a beautiful blanket from some out-of-town friends whom we see about once a year.	The blanket we received from our out-of-town friends was wonderful to look at.	entailment
The most feared (in a good-natured, humorous way) teen news--other than the startlingly high number of your child was killed in a car crash (in a lighthearted, frolicsome way)--was Your adolescent is enjoying sex and drugs.	A car crash is the most feared teen news a parent could receive.	neutral
All past articles, features, and columns remain available in The Compost.	The Compost plans on continuing to keep the past articles forever.	neutral
Even if they use the meat.	They use the meat.	neutral
So, by a process known to psychologists as transference, she transferred her feelings, both positive and negative, to you, the second-most-important Bill in the country.	She wanted to express her emotions to someone important.	neutral
Washington can't erase jurisdictional frontiers, but it can encourage metropolitan government via tax incentives and cheerleading.	The metro governments won't do anything without some coaxing from Washington.	neutral
In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven.	The Carter family never recorded any music.	contradiction
Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.	The money provided causes more infighting than is worth it.	neutral
(Some of these folks are still writing for Commentary today.)	People refuse to maintain their association with Commentary.	contradiction
while pointing to a chart.	The chart was pointed at.	entailment
And I hate short sleeved shirts when they wear them with dark neckties, skinny swine knocking on closed doors; and I had a habit of counting bricks, a nice obsession compared with	I like short sleeved tops with light colors.	neutral
In that sense, the stock market boom is founded firmly on the steadier achievements to which Kazin refers.	The stock market boom didn't last for a year.	neutral
This is odd because it collapses the distinction between willingness to pay and ability to pay.	The willingness to pay and the ability are often the same.	neutral
As in the regular world, the easier it is for Joe Consumer to track down an illegal distributor, the easier it is for cops to do the same.	Cops find illegal drug operations more frequently when consumer drug use increases broadly.	neutral
(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.)	Regarding animals, Mother Teresa would deal with them in disdain.	contradiction
It's like campaign-finance reform--the people who control it are products of the system, says online voting evangelist Marc Strassman.	campaign finance reform is strongly contested.	neutral
He's not just a man in the He generates his own light.	The man relied on everyone else to generate light for him.	contradiction
For most quiz participants, the precarious venture that needed saving was either a failing TV show or a foundering political campaign.	The quiz participants knew a lot about popular culture and politics.	neutral
The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others.	The debate is almost always won most often by a politician, over a scientist, philosopher, or artist.	neutral
In any case, if I had actually been interested in buying the print, with the help of the Web, I would have been in a far better position to negotiate a favorable price.	Negotiating a good price would have been much easier if I'd actually been interested in buying.	entailment
Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.	The pageant organizers should put an end to forcing the contestants into a defensive position about their their thesis	entailment
Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.	Yugoslavia will no longer be able to compete in the global markets of today.	neutral
Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.	Steve Forbes chose the best guru.	neutral
(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.	Our penises are forever flaccid, now and in the time to come.	contradiction
God knows he's prepared for it.	God cares if he is prepared or not.	neutral
In the age of possibility that beckons, one thing that apparently will not be possible is a policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group.	Fiscal burdens are the only impossibilities in this age.	neutral
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 studies rocks.	contradiction
(Belize and Gibraltar are best, because they don't recognize American divorce judgments.)	Divorces in Belize and Gibraltar adopt some of the same procedures as America.	neutral
There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives.	Often times during the week there are ridiculous scenes in the streets of Los Angles which have several respected labor-community initiatives.	neutral
Nevertheless, if you're into printing out, it's worth investigating.	Just print out the information without checking it.	contradiction
mean is we moved closer, in,	We moved closer.	entailment
Even Quayle and Bennett had to agree.	They find it hard to see eye to eye, Quayle and Bennet.	contradiction
An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs.	It is known that congress will exceed the budget ceiling by funding domestic programs.	contradiction
(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.)	The nun was also a bit of a tree hugger.	neutral
He's asking us to overlook it.	He wants us to ignore it.	entailment
And that's the key point.	There was no key point.	contradiction
Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.	Fibroblasts exist in fetuses and other lifeforms.	neutral
For the United Nations to thrive, it's not enough that the United States trust it.	The United States' trust is not enough for the UN to thrive.	entailment
I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it.	Your way of responding shows real class and maturity.	contradiction
You can acquire a second spouse so long as you discard the first one.	It is always unacceptable to take a second spouse.	contradiction
And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.	It is possible that congress will overspend.	entailment
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.	Having found the source of HIV-1, scientists hope to now develop a cure for the virus.	neutral
What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity.	Medicare is running smoothly with no issues.	contradiction
Among the most fierce hatreds of teens (probably right after public humiliation and rejection) is of hypocrisy	Teens love hypocrisy.	contradiction
Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste.	Often greed and bad taste come together	neutral
A companion piece advocates destroying food bacteria with low-level radiation.	UV and low-level radiation are equally effective	contradiction
He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters.	Ames supporters designed the e-mail tree.	contradiction
He also identifies a number of highly technical problems with the experiment that, he says, render it meaningless.	The problems are almost useless with the equpment.	entailment
A 30,000-man unit called Saddam's Commandos , led by one of his sons, also snuffs out unrest.	Saddam personally led his unit called Saddam's Commandos	contradiction
Remember when he looked us in the eye?	He avoided eye contact to get away from others.	contradiction
Cagney's charisma launched what looks, decades later, like the most enduring film style of all.	Cagney conveyed a lousy film style still remembered today.	contradiction
We will all sleep better at night knowing that our commander in chief's libido is compartmentalized, and that he's not bombing Sudanese pharmaceutical plants just to get his Iraqs off.	Many Sudanese pharmaceutical companies have been destroyed so far.	contradiction
In recent months, Chinese corporations have taken stakes in Hong Kong Telecom, Dragon Air, and China Light & Power.	Chinese corporations have taken over Dragon Air, amongst other companies.	entailment
Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers.	The Republican doctrine between the president and his executive evolved on the issue.	contradiction
The half-cynical The joke is on Reagan, because the building belies his rhetoric against big government.	Reagan speaks badly about big government in rhetoric.	neutral
In that case the big loans organized a few months ago could have made the difference.	The loans that were big would make the difference.	neutral
The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor to put the system's books in long-term balance all assume that the current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are really being compounded and preserved.	None of the trust funds are in the form of treasury bonds.	contradiction
Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party.	The ferry ride was part of our honeymoon.	neutral

The villains were the blacklisters.

The blacklister did something serious to be considered villains

neutral

There's something about [Corgan's] whole grandiosity that is very four years ago.

Corgan's grandiosity will be around for at least another year.

neutral

Lind means to debunk minimal realism, the argument that the United States should do only those things in the world that it really has to do, because the great evils it must avoid are overextension and overcommitment.

Minimal realism suggests that one should overextend and overcommit in each endeavor throughout the world.

contradiction

These notes were subpoenaed by special prosecutor Kenneth Starr on June 21, 1996.

Kenneth Starr subpoenaed Hillary Clinton's notes on June 21, 1996 while investigating Whitewater.

entailment

(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.

It's been awhile since they've been erect.

neutral

Prudie guesses it's the Hepburn aura you're going for, since, unlike you, there was no Marilyn Monroe body underneath all those tailored clothes.

Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe had different body types and looks.

entailment

They were denied my entree into the world of conservative journalism.

I did not join the right-wing press.

entailment

The cover article urges the GOP and the Christian right to compromise.

The article is in favor of amity between the GOP and the Christian right.

entailment

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 slayed the Chuck Norrises of post-midnight programming.

contradiction

She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water.

She believes that fuel-cell engines in cars will be the wave of the future.

entailment

The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law.

Federal laws question those under 13's privacy.

contradiction

That leaves Case 1. But if you believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of your fabulously wealthy grandchildren, you must also believe that your neighbor has no right to live well at the expense of Bill Gates.

A person has no rights to the wealth of others, whether it be a personal connection or a public one.

entailment

Songs like their biggest hit, , are sense-less but skillful pastiches of classic Beatles moments.

Their songs are as far from the Beatles as the earth is to the sky.

contradiction

Across the board, in fact, investors are willing to overlook short-term losses due to strikes if they feel that a company's hard line will pay off in lower costs down the road.

Short term losses due to strikes are very important to investors.

contradiction

Almost instantly, kids in each group formed bonds of loyalty and group identification.

The kids in each group were rude to each other.

contradiction

If he does a better job, those citizenships will become more valuable, and he'll get a better price for them.

The value of the citizenships was affected by the success of his job

entailment

And U.K. giant British Telecom purchased MCI.

MCI was purchased by British Telecom.

entailment

The primary purpose of this conversation is not to convey any specific information.

Certain conversations could just be vague.

neutral

Civility is not one of the major virtues.

Being civil is not thought of as a key point when humans think of morality.

entailment

Or you can download a new copy from www.microsoft.com/ie/.)

You can not download the copy from the Microsoft website.

contradiction

That is not a Medicare or Medicaid cut, he reassured seniors.

Medicare and Medicaid was for sure going to be cut.

contradiction

But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.

Rips is waiting until he is ready to address the dispute.

contradiction

But (as Stein pointed out in the Committee), every dollar Social Security invests privately, instead of lending to the Treasury (as happens now), is an extra dollar the government must borrow from private capital markets to finance the national debt.

Every dollar invested in the Treasury mean the government must borrow more from private capital markets.

contradiction

I suggest a test to resolve the matter.

If you think you are a good problem solver, I suggest you take a test.

entailment

These groups give workers a selection of plans and reduce paperwork hassles for employers.

Workers can decide which plan to use based on preference.

entailment

is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.

The article was also used by them later. to help validate an additional argument in their favor.

neutral

Could we curb Milosevic's aggression through diplomacy rather than bombing?

If diplomacy does not work they will use a bomb.

entailment

Possession of a firearm or destructive device (i.e.

Disposing of firearms.

contradiction

In a statement, Sawyer said she played no role in this decision.

Sawyer took full responsibility for this decision

contradiction

Recognizing that the Internet effectively wipes out national borders, and fearing that the development of new technologies may be impeded by inconsistent tax policies, the federal government has been studying the issue of international tariffs on Internet transactions.

The government has not found anyone that has used the tax policies to their advantage.

neutral

But in the closing days of the campaign, it stands as an apt description of his faltering Republican opponents.

His Republican opponents faltered.

entailment

But I love it even more because it has saved me so much trouble.

They adore it becasue it has saved them a lot of hassle.

entailment

Privatization means allowing individuals to invest for themselves all or part of what they and their employers put into Social Security.

Privatization is the best option for investing in yourself.

neutral

I see a method to his madness.

The process works very well.

neutral

As early as the 1780s, however, the pendulum had swung back, and many Americans looked to the courts to check the excesses of their legislators.

Americans in the 1780s took it into their own hands to check how excessive the legislators had gotten.

contradiction

We're prejudging this thing [when we say] it doesn't meet the standard of the high crimes and misdemeanors.

Although we believe this particular incident that has just arose is not related, we can expect to see more murders in the upcoming month.

neutral

Need a good book store with a series of author appearances, maybe starting with Susan Faludi?

Susan Faludi is an author.

neutral

Some people want a Caddy and others want a Chevy, he shrugs.

Some people want a luxury sedan.

entailment

Latin American gangs routinely kidnap rich foreign executives and demand multimillion-dollar ransoms.

Foreign executives are often the target of Latin American gangs.

entailment

As soon as I announced a uniform price of $5, my neighbor would announce a price of $4.

The speaker is always lower than the neighbor.

contradiction

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.

The Clintonite Democrats rallied for poverty more than ten times.

neutral

Many teen-agers are not moved by the possibility of an early death in four decades.

Dying 40 years from now is not something that bothers most teens.

entailment

We received a beautiful blanket from some out-of-town friends whom we see about once a year.

The blanket we received from our out-of-town friends was wonderful to look at.

entailment

The most feared (in a good-natured, humorous way) teen news--other than the startlingly high number of your child was killed in a car crash (in a lighthearted, frolicsome way)--was Your adolescent is enjoying sex and drugs.

A car crash is the most feared teen news a parent could receive.

neutral

All past articles, features, and columns remain available in The Compost.

The Compost plans on continuing to keep the past articles forever.

neutral

Even if they use the meat.

They use the meat.

neutral

So, by a process known to psychologists as transference, she transferred her feelings, both positive and negative, to you, the second-most-important Bill in the country.

She wanted to express her emotions to someone important.

neutral

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

The metro governments won't do anything without some coaxing from Washington.

neutral

In 1936, well before No Depression was launched, the Carter Family recorded a song called No Depression in Heaven.

The Carter family never recorded any music.

contradiction

Sufficient money and party regulars and money have been assembled to make the primaries and indeed the general election even more than usually irrelevant.

The money provided causes more infighting than is worth it.

neutral

(Some of these folks are still writing for Commentary today.)

People refuse to maintain their association with Commentary.

contradiction

while pointing to a chart.

The chart was pointed at.

entailment

And I hate short sleeved shirts when they wear them with dark neckties, skinny swine knocking on closed doors; and I had a habit of counting bricks, a nice obsession compared with

I like short sleeved tops with light colors.

neutral

In that sense, the stock market boom is founded firmly on the steadier achievements to which Kazin refers.

The stock market boom didn't last for a year.

neutral

This is odd because it collapses the distinction between willingness to pay and ability to pay.

The willingness to pay and the ability are often the same.

neutral

As in the regular world, the easier it is for Joe Consumer to track down an illegal distributor, the easier it is for cops to do the same.

Cops find illegal drug operations more frequently when consumer drug use increases broadly.

neutral

(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.)

Regarding animals, Mother Teresa would deal with them in disdain.

contradiction

It's like campaign-finance reform--the people who control it are products of the system, says online voting evangelist Marc Strassman.

campaign finance reform is strongly contested.

neutral

He's not just a man in the He generates his own light.

The man relied on everyone else to generate light for him.

contradiction

For most quiz participants, the precarious venture that needed saving was either a failing TV show or a foundering political campaign.

The quiz participants knew a lot about popular culture and politics.

neutral

The debate over whether to pick a politician, scientist, philosopher, or artist often turns on which of these fields drives the others.

The debate is almost always won most often by a politician, over a scientist, philosopher, or artist.

neutral

In any case, if I had actually been interested in buying the print, with the help of the Web, I would have been in a far better position to negotiate a favorable price.

Negotiating a good price would have been much easier if I'd actually been interested in buying.

entailment

Perhaps the pageant organizers could prune the readings from Ionesco and the madrigal recital, or they could finally stop forcing the contestants to defend their theses.

The pageant organizers should put an end to forcing the contestants into a defensive position about their their thesis

entailment

Milosevic, meanwhile, has turned Yugoslavia into a pariah state, its economy destroyed, its ambitions for Greater Serbia quashed.

Yugoslavia will no longer be able to compete in the global markets of today.

neutral

Steve Forbes' Internet guru Rick Segal tried to work the Iowa straw poll this way.

Steve Forbes chose the best guru.

neutral

(No longer will our penises remain flaccid and We will get laid.

Our penises are forever flaccid, now and in the time to come.

contradiction

God knows he's prepared for it.

God cares if he is prepared or not.

neutral

In the age of possibility that beckons, one thing that apparently will not be possible is a policy that imposes a fiscal burden on this group.

Fiscal burdens are the only impossibilities in this age.

neutral

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 studies rocks.

contradiction

(Belize and Gibraltar are best, because they don't recognize American divorce judgments.)

Divorces in Belize and Gibraltar adopt some of the same procedures as America.

neutral

There was a pathetic scene a few weeks ago in Los Angeles, home to several respected labor-community initiatives.

Often times during the week there are ridiculous scenes in the streets of Los Angles which have several respected labor-community initiatives.

neutral

Nevertheless, if you're into printing out, it's worth investigating.

Just print out the information without checking it.

contradiction

mean is we moved closer, in,

We moved closer.

entailment

Even Quayle and Bennett had to agree.

They find it hard to see eye to eye, Quayle and Bennet.

contradiction

An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs.

It is known that congress will exceed the budget ceiling by funding domestic programs.

contradiction

(Mother Teresa cared passionately about animals.)

The nun was also a bit of a tree hugger.

neutral

He's asking us to overlook it.

He wants us to ignore it.

entailment

And that's the key point.

There was no key point.

contradiction

Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell.

Fibroblasts exist in fetuses and other lifeforms.

neutral

For the United Nations to thrive, it's not enough that the United States trust it.

The United States' trust is not enough for the UN to thrive.

entailment

I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it.

Your way of responding shows real class and maturity.

contradiction

You can acquire a second spouse so long as you discard the first one.

It is always unacceptable to take a second spouse.

contradiction

And when GS asks, who is to stop congress from spending too much money.

It is possible that congress will overspend.

entailment

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.

Having found the source of HIV-1, scientists hope to now develop a cure for the virus.

neutral

What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity.

Medicare is running smoothly with no issues.

contradiction

Among the most fierce hatreds of teens (probably right after public humiliation and rejection) is of hypocrisy

Teens love hypocrisy.

contradiction

Greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste.

Often greed and bad taste come together

neutral

A companion piece advocates destroying food bacteria with low-level radiation.

UV and low-level radiation are equally effective

contradiction

He set up a national e-mail tree designed to get people to send their friends in Iowa to Ames as Forbes supporters.

Ames supporters designed the e-mail tree.

contradiction

He also identifies a number of highly technical problems with the experiment that, he says, render it meaningless.

The problems are almost useless with the equpment.

entailment

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

Saddam personally led his unit called Saddam's Commandos

contradiction

Remember when he looked us in the eye?

He avoided eye contact to get away from others.

contradiction

Cagney's charisma launched what looks, decades later, like the most enduring film style of all.

Cagney conveyed a lousy film style still remembered today.

contradiction

We will all sleep better at night knowing that our commander in chief's libido is compartmentalized, and that he's not bombing Sudanese pharmaceutical plants just to get his Iraqs off.

Many Sudanese pharmaceutical companies have been destroyed so far.

contradiction

In recent months, Chinese corporations have taken stakes in Hong Kong Telecom, Dragon Air, and China Light & Power.

Chinese corporations have taken over Dragon Air, amongst other companies.

entailment

Republicans have also evolved a bit on the issue of executive privilege, the doctrine that protects communications between the president and his top advisers.

The Republican doctrine between the president and his executive evolved on the issue.

contradiction

The half-cynical The joke is on Reagan, because the building belies his rhetoric against big government.

Reagan speaks badly about big government in rhetoric.

neutral

In that case the big loans organized a few months ago could have made the difference.

The loans that were big would make the difference.

neutral

The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor to put the system's books in long-term balance all assume that the current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are really being compounded and preserved.

None of the trust funds are in the form of treasury bonds.

contradiction

Less than a week into our marriage, we were touring Lake Como on a ferry when we cruised past a wedding party.

The ferry ride was part of our honeymoon.

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