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In the $125,000-$40,000 scenario, for instance, a deficit-neutral solution would increase their taxes by $2,000 or so (compared with now) if they remain single and cut their taxes by about $550 if they get married. | If cutting taxes is their goal, they should tie the knot. | entailment |
His book is crammed full of stray data he has disinterred about Dala's Catalan ancestors, his sexual obsessions, and infighting within the Surrealist movement, which Dala was eventually drummed out of for his pro-fascist sentiments. | Dala harbored anti-fascist sentiments. | contradiction |
Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human. | As of now, Belgium is working hard to produce the first cloned human in history. | contradiction |
Sam Johnson, R-Texas, has suggested that Clinton be court-martialed for his treatment of Paula Jones. | Clinton ignores who Paula Jones is | contradiction |
Two tons of metal are not enough to defend your children, however. | The children will not be safe because you have lots of metal. | entailment |
It can be a bit like a claustrophobic small town, where your private life is part of the public dialogue. | Often one feels like when living in a small town a portion of the citizens know your business, | neutral |
Visually we wanted to create a little bit of hope, a transition to the rest of the spot and the HRC logo, which picks up and repeats the color. | Hope is shown through the HRC logo. | entailment |
The ossified state of European telecom monopolies would stun American Webheads. | American Webheads are unsurprised by the state of European telecom monopolies. | contradiction |
As surrogate mothers have proved, knowing that you've given no genes to an infant needn't stop the bonding process. | Surrogate parents bond with their babies to an equal degree as genetic parents. | neutral |
But filters aren't just for concerned parents. | Filters are used by everyone. | neutral |
In preparation for our trip, I spent months studying Italian soccer on television. | I reject the thought of studying Italian soccer because I hate the sport. | contradiction |
Those standards didn't keep Ellison from writing, merely from calling it quits. | Those prescriptions prevented him from scribbling words. | entailment |
USA Snapshots and other regular graphs abound. | Many regular graphs and USA snapshots exist. | entailment |
The West prevailed because it was rich, rather than because it was good. | The west had a lot of money, that's why it was successful. | entailment |
It is enough that tragedy once again punished the Kennedys, wrote Cohen. | The Kennedys are very lucky people. | contradiction |
Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors. | The World Cup soccer players contained no female predecessors, but currently do. | neutral |
particular national We are simultaneously subject to every other national jurisdiction. | There are a set of laws and rules set by the country. | entailment |
But I begin to see in the public's indifference to the myriad accusations of presidential adultery that Weisberg speaks for the majority. | The public trust whatever the President speaks. | contradiction |
Still, every now and then, a professor would have four genuine A students and only three A's to give out. | The professor did not like the student he did not grade with an A. | neutral |
(Perkins did not respond to several requests for an interview.) | Perkin's did not take the requests seriously at all. | neutral |
Not surprisingly, Scalia is no big fan of stare decisis : In his dissents, he often calls upon the court to scour away layers of encrusted precedent in order to get at the original meaning of the underlying text. | Scalia is a vocal advocate of stare decisis. | contradiction |
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. | The university community is geographically diverse. | entailment |
We don't see him surprise the nation in 1964 with strong showings in the Maryland and Wisconsin Democratic primaries--states outside the Deep South where he wasn't expected to fare well. | He is not expected to have a strong showing in certain Democratic primaries. | entailment |
Wilson provides superb overviews of Western intellectual history and of the current state of understanding in many academic disciplines. | Far from subpar, Wilson's overviews of Western intellectual history are outstanding. | entailment |
Although Stanley Tucci turns in a good performance as the godfather of gossip, Walter Winchell, critics pan everything else in the made-for-TV film. | The critics hated everything about the made-for-TV film, except for Stanley Tucci's role. | entailment |
He thought they bloomed for just the right length of time, smartly disappearing before you can tire of them. | He wished the flower pedals would stay longer, they're gone too soon. | contradiction |
Intellectual property refers, basically, to nontangible creative product and, like a rising sea, it seems to cover new territory with every passing year. | Intellectual property is an absolutely fixed and immutable concept | contradiction |
It's been a long haul, and very much a gendered haul. | We've been going for a long time now. | entailment |
The organization has already curtailed essential activities, and may be forced to shut down next year if the Americans don't pay. | If American's don't pay, the organization may be forced to shut down even after they reduced essential activities. | entailment |
It's probably therapeutic for Slate's two warriors to be taking time out from their inquiries into the House Budget or Travelgate to organize their thoughts on their place in the universe. | Slate's warriors work 365 days a year. | contradiction |
It discourages close scrutiny and too many questions. | It discourages a large amount of questions. | entailment |
Hispanics, Asians, even African and Caribbean blacks, are by and large following the classic patterns of immigrant and ethnic assimilation. | Most immigrants assimilate in different way. | contradiction |
Mehta's multivolume autobiography, titled Continents of Exile , has loss as its overarching loss of sight, of childhood, of home and country, and now--with this volume--loss of Mr. Shawn's New Yorker . The memoir takes us from the time the author was hired as a staff writer in the early '60s up to 1994, when he was terminated by the loathed Tina Brown in her vandalization of his cherished magazine. | Mehta's memoir is about when he was a staff writer in the 1960's until he was fired by Tina Brown. | entailment |
Charles Bakaly, Starr's new spokesman, gave his inaugural Sunday show appearance to Fox News Sunday , only to have interviewers Tony Snow and Brit Hume run the oldest play in the book on him. | Charles Bakaly is a new mouthpiece for Starr. | entailment |
I spent 10 years in commercial aviation with two U.S. flag carriers and offer the following comments based on that experience. | My first 5 years of commercial aviation were scary. | neutral |
We anticipate accidents at stock car races. | At stock car races, one can assume there will be accidents. | entailment |
The pressure of these appeals for gifts has become too great for endurance. | No one minds the constant pleading for gifts. | contradiction |
Monetary union and relaxed fiscal policy are sparking the boom. | Financial policy violations are being overlooked to spark the economy. | neutral |
Changing identities is the goal of Monica Lewinsky, according to this week's Star . Though the publication doesn't report any plastic surgery in her future, when her legal troubles are over she wants to make a fresh start and plans to do so with a name change. | Monica Lewinsky doesn't want to change her name. | contradiction |
Some analysts think Senate Republicans alienated conservative voters by giving up on tax cuts and caving in to Clinton in the budget negotiations. | Analysts believe that voters were alienated by Senate Republicans. | entailment |
But--and Levin is likely to find this praise more infuriating than any criticism--had he chosen to play his Emperor on a Steinway or a Bosendorfer, he might have given us one of the greatest recordings of the piece ever put on disc. | Often Levin finds this type of praise more disturbing than other criticisms. | neutral |
we, like you, secretly covet recliners, purrs the card beside a 1952-style Metro Finer Recliner, priced at $990. | A 1952 style Metro Finer recliner will cost over 900 dollars. | entailment |
1) The script leaves out crucial parts of Winchell's story. | The script tells the entire story. | contradiction |
The press has been through an orgy of breast-beating over its dismissal of Jones in 1994. | The dismissal of Jones in 1994 was based on strong reasons | neutral |
The NYT runs an op-ed by writer Janna Malamud Smith that states If we're going to make simplistic rules about truth-telling, mine would start Ms. | Janna Malamud Smith states that the rules about truth-telling shouldn't be complicated. | entailment |
Reporters aren't interested in the clash of ideas. | Reporters have a high level of interest in the clashing ideas. | contradiction |
The decline in the won, by making imports more expensive and exports more competitive, would help bring about the decline in the current-account deficit, or the generation of a surplus. | The handling of the imports brought with it great financial success, as well as a great surplus of funds. | contradiction |
Once everybody goes in for length, let's give it about three years--the same period as between 1922 and 1925, say--and then expect another rise, with other connotations. | We can expect another rise in about 6 months. | contradiction |
And ads on the Internet, at least so far, lack oomph. | The ads on the internet lack oomph because companies invest less in their development | neutral |
Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community. | James and Dewey did not live to see their pronouns appear on headlines. | neutral |
It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion. | It is difficult to understand why Kinsey's interest in sexuality is seen as only a perverse undertaking on one person. | entailment |
In appointing the bland, seemingly slow-paced Chernomyrdin as his envoy, Boris Yeltsin is probably hoping that Chernomyrdin will somehow pull off a settlement without really seeming to or without raising too many hackles, and that his ultimate success will be Primakov's loss. | Chernomydrin did an amazing job as an envoy of Boris. | neutral |
Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics. | New Jersey Nets fans are similar to other fans. | neutral |
Never mind that according to Time , he privately told several financial backers in January, I love my wife. | He expressed to his shareholders his affection for his spouse. | entailment |
What happened to Rocker's right to free (albeit despicable) speech? | Rocker spoke out against feminism. | neutral |
Esme, played by Judi Dench, is an actress who lives for the theater. | Judi Dench spends much of her time practicing and preparing for upcoming shows that she's scheduled to take part in. | neutral |
And privacy--cloak of night, stocking mask, and any digital equivalent--is all that separates the thief from the law. | Privacy is all that separates the thief from the law. | entailment |
The technology might usefully be applied in local races, in which it's hard to sort out the platform of every potential state senator, judge, school board official, and city council member. | The technology is especially unnecessary in local races. | contradiction |
The company is upset not because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink to TicketMaster's site, but because Sidewalk provided a hyperlink deep into TicketMaster's site. | The company was clearly upset at Sidewalk in their issued statment. | entailment |
Malcolm Gladwell's exegesis, however, suggests that we are to vote for the most impressive display of empty virtuosity. | Gladwell urges people to vote for someone who was genuine but less than impressive. | contradiction |
Intent on not striking out, he bats pitch after pitch into foul territory. | He's focused on working the count. | entailment |
Indeed, Tripp pulls down more than all but a handful of the U.S. military's most senior officers. | Tripp is in the U.S. military. | entailment |
The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer. | In the film Heathers, Christian Slater's character blows up his school. | contradiction |
The first of five special issues about the 21 st century imagines health and environment in the future. | The first issue examines how the US military has advanced. | contradiction |
The spread of nuclear and biological weapons, the growth of international organized crime, and global environmental degradation are a few examples. | The examples include nuclear and biological weapon spread, organized crime growth, and environmental destruction around the globe. | entailment |
But given the global supply glut--the U.S. government seized about a ton of heroin in 1995, compared with worldwide heroin production of 400 tons--many experts question whether interdiction has any effect on street prices. | A portion of the worldwide production was also captured by other countries. | neutral |
And if he gets this balancing act wrong, he must pander even more furiously to make it up. | He's in a precarious position, and he must do a gesture of reconciliation | entailment |
But it won't do this because of some ancestral memory in the genes. | The ancestral memory might prevent it from doing this. | entailment |
Now, to commemorate our first anniversary, in an act of incredible corporate generosity that is every bit as good as providing health insurance (I'm sure that Mr. Gates will make this sort of thing more available should Microsoft prove profitable), Slate | Microsoft offered health insurance to a small portion of it's work force. | neutral |
Because, at the risk of sentimentality, it's the News Quiz participants that make it fun for me. | A wide variety of perspectives makes the News Quiz participants exciting. | neutral |
It is hard to understand how Grisham pulls this off. | It's easy to understand how Grisham does things like this. | contradiction |
The amount is small for Cramer but large for the editor of Slate . TheStreet.com competes, to some extent, with Slate 's sister MSN site MoneyCentral and even, to a lesser extent, with Slate itself. | The proofreader for Slate did more work than Cramer so they get paid more. | neutral |
If a Milosevic knew with reasonable certainty that ethnic cleansing would be prevented and punished, he might not attempt it. | Ethnic cleansing can be prevented. | entailment |
July 9, PBS's The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ran, without comment, all the PDFA's new ads. | All the new ads were ran on July 9. | entailment |
In a state lottery, your odds of winning depend only on how many tickets you hold compared with everyone else. | Your odds of winning depend on how many tickets you sell. | contradiction |
This is all pure high-toned and irritating, vibrating with barely curtailed snobbism, but also venturing hard queries and unpopular responses. | This is annoying and quite snooty with complicated questions and responses that are not popular. | entailment |
Instead, they looked the other way. | They didn't want to look the other way. | neutral |
I think he perceives our friendship as being stronger than it is. | We do not have a very strong friendship. | entailment |
What Medicare is now suffering is not a calamity. | The situation regarding Medicare is not as serious as it seems. | entailment |
For example, the idea of putting the Ten Commandments in every classroom is attractive but, in the long run, federally funded stone tablets will only breed dependency on the nanny state. | Having the Ten Commandments in every school is an unappealing prospect. | contradiction |
John Glenn's space shuttle ride as a medical guinea pig. | John Glenn did not agree to his space shuttle ride at first. | neutral |
I'd say it was the second number. | I told them it was the fourth number. | contradiction |
However, Clinton would risk legislative revenge if he tried to pursue the issue in the face of firm majorities against him in Congress. | All members of Congress were firmly on Clinton's side and served as his devoted proponents. | contradiction |
Broder and Waas say they have spoken with two ex- Spectator employees who anonymously corroborate Mann and Rand's assertion that the Arkansas Project paid Hale. | The Arkansas Project paid Hale. | neutral |
We're talking about president of the United States. | We are discussing the current President of the United States. | neutral |
The show vainly leads each week with a high-minded story designed to appeal to good-government liberals. | This show not only appeals to liberals but also conservatives. | neutral |
Both are actors who involved themselves in politics. | Both actors, who are men, hate politics | contradiction |
In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one. | M&A understands what it takes to make two companies. | contradiction |
Would the story have broken if not for the Web? | The Web was responsible for breaking the story out. | entailment |
Thompson is no longer Hunter S. He performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine. | Thompson now believes Hunter S no longer represents him. | neutral |
Just as an aside, Prudie cannot quite understand your wearing the T-shirt bra with its thin padding. | Prudie understands well, why you wear the T-shirt bra with its thin padding. | contradiction |
The original statistical work in The Bell Curve consists of regression analyses on a database called the National Longitudinal Study of Youth. | Regression analyses was used on the database in the original statistical work in The Bell Curve. | entailment |
You can have a park in your backyard (as I do) and still make it to work in 15 minutes (if you keep a sharp eye out for the potholes). | Getting to work always takes more than 15 minutes if you live near a park. | contradiction |
The private quarters, a k a the residence, occupy the second and third floors of the White House. | In the White House there are many private rooms | entailment |
No, it's something more amorphous, like, Who do you want to hear it from the next time a plane crashes or a world leader is assassinated? | The author made the question vague on purpose. | neutral |
He recently said that a Washington state initiative to require trigger locks was written by Satan. | He fully supports the Washington state initiative to require trigger locks and said it was written by God. | contradiction |
American companies have claimed that the launches helped the United States more than China. | The benefits China got for the launches have been insufficient | neutral |
And yet (no doubt largely because congressional Republicans were overplaying their hand), the public gave Clinton more support than had ever been enjoyed by Richard Nixon (personal 67 percent) or even Ronald Reagan (personal 68 percent--mass adulation of Ronald Reagan being a largely retrospective phenomenon). | Clinton received more support than Nixon or Reagan. | entailment |
Markets get caught in self-perpetuating cycles of undue optimism and hysterical panic. | Markets are always the same. | contradiction |
It concerns itself with something that matters--a million bucks--yet Regis' presence makes it frivolous. | Regis' presence annoyed many people. | neutral |
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