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Republicans should counter with logical, informative statements that point out the costs involved in litigation. | maybe also bring up the importance of patience to these Republicans. | neutral |
The new law also makes it easier for broadcasters to renew their licenses, and requires TV manufacturers to install parent-friendly V-chips. | The new law makes it extremely hard for broadcasters to renew their licenses. | contradiction |
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). | No economic phenomenon could adequately describe Microsoft's position. | contradiction |
It is hard to believe that people who have spent years, even decades, writing about economics are really so fuzzy-minded that they cannot see the difference between protecting consumers from tainted produce and protecting workers from competing products. | Tainted produce has become an increasing concern in recent years. | neutral |
Yet in almost any diaspora--whether black, yellow, brown, or white --the dispersed are far better off, at least materially, than those back home. | There have been diaspora where those in the Motherland were better off. | neutral |
The media's willingness to buy this line was a result, in part, of the White House's ongoing campaign to depict Clinton as the victim of an inexorable right-wing machine. | Clinton was guilty of the accusations. | neutral |
They think it's unlikely the United States can capture him, and even if we do, it's not clear that he can be prosecuted. | After capture, the route to prosecution is clear. | contradiction |
Audiences literally boo avant-garde director Robert Wilson for his minimalist staging of Richard Wagner's classic opera, and most critics agree with the verdict. | The show has had dismal ticket sales. | neutral |
(Two baseball broadcasters discussed this year's Series in a Slate Dialogue. | 2 baseball broadcasters are having a conversation. | entailment |
I'm not sure whether to invite him to mine. | I'm not definitely going to invite him. | entailment |
People were chuckling about the Rome of the Decadence effect of the big lawn bolster recliners. | The people were chucking at a lawn mower. | contradiction |
This has made her an attorney general without measurable accomplishment in law enforcement or prosecution. | The woman is not qualified for the position. | neutral |
If she fails to respond, he said, the House will have no choice but to call for the vice president's impeachment. | Congress has the legal right to call for the impeachment of certain elected officials. | entailment |
The proposed HearSLATE could then offer discriminating commuters and professional drivers some intellectual refuge from the endless tirade of mindless drivel currently broadcast by the common carriers. | HearSLATE does not offer anything to commuters or professional drivers. | contradiction |
Vice President Gore will do the same Wednesday in Tennessee. | Al Gore was a politician. | entailment |
The article leaves the impression that Huffington is quite confused and a bit dull. | the article makes it seem as if Huffington is bewildered and a bit flat. | entailment |
For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative. | Albright does not trust Simova. | neutral |
It's a big week for women's health at Newsweek , too. | Covering women's health is beneficial for Newsweek. | neutral |
The new company may also benefit from merging warehousing and inventory management, and ideally there will be joint production of components that both companies use. | Benefits can be had form bringing the two companies closer together. | entailment |
Equity options themselves aren't the problem--they have legitimate uses--and without the ability to lock in positions that equity options offer, certain folks might not be in the equity market in the first place. | It is a strong investment to hold equity options. | neutral |
A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack. | Unlike e-mail, solicitations via direct mail typically include legal reassurances and postage. | entailment |
I invite you to compare Reich's account with reality by clicking . | The author wants to hide Reich's account from you. | contradiction |
Religious people are finding evidence of God in recent scientific discoveries. | Science is allowing the religious to find evidence of His existence. | entailment |
Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they won't engage in street-to-street It's too bloody. | Grozny openly protested Russian laws. | neutral |
That would cause a sensation, Mr. Saatchi! | Mr.Saatchi is causing the sensation. | neutral |
My wish is to make this marriage work because I love my wife, but I am feeling like second fiddle to a gang of girls. | He loves his wife, but still feels like he is insignificant compared to her friends. | entailment |
But we wouldn't know about Dowd's failure to muster a response, or about Lewinsky's poise and forthrightness, unless Dowd herself had chosen to tell us. | We've never received any information from Dowd. | contradiction |
On Cultural The Wilson-Brustein Discussion , moderated by Anna Deavere Smith (Town Hall, New York). | the Wilson-Brustein discussion only lasted 15 minutes. | neutral |
I wrote no such thing, and Arthur has never, to my knowledge, claimed any such thing. | I certainly wrote that, and Arthur emphatically agreed with me. | contradiction |
Hillary must energize blacks and Hispanics without alienating white ethnic suburbanites who favor Giuliani. | The Giuliani campaign cannot attract white voters of any kind. | contradiction |
Washington can't erase jurisdictional frontiers, but it can encourage metropolitan government via tax incentives and cheerleading. | City government is easily manipulated. | neutral |
But Royko also challenged white Chicago's prejudices, skewering bigots who tried to keep a white couple that had adopted a black baby out of their neighborhood or a funeral parlor that didn't want to bury a black soldier killed in Vietnam. | Royko attacks bigots and challenges white Chicago's prejudices. | entailment |
The Old 97's take their name from The Wreck of the Old 97, a song popularized by Vernon Dalhart in 1924. | The Old 97's didn't come up with their name wholly originally, it comes from song. | entailment |
For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country. | Colorado students struggle on the SAT compared to students from other states. | contradiction |
dull, provincial, and oddly prevalent on U.S. comedy shows. | Comedy shows are not being sold out anymore. | neutral |
Wealth would indeed be moved around, some people enriched, and others would be financial losers. | If wealth were moved around some people would lose money and some would gain it. | entailment |
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. | Cognisoft's decision comes after a year of declining sales and struggling product performance. | neutral |
Do I just have the capacity to eat doughnuts and hamburgers and broccoli? | I have to eat doughnuts, hamburgers, and broccoli at one time. | neutral |
The product could make the blind more independent. | Since the product utilized cutting edge technology, it could deliver results unlike anything else on the market. | neutral |
13-year-old I hate the people in our grade--they're all so boring! | The 13 year old failed 2 grades. | neutral |
Of course this kind of demand-side thinking is extremely out of fashion. | Demand-side thinking is not as popular as it use to be. | entailment |
One free-lancer tells of building much of a summer traveling with her husband in the West and Europe around a couple of Conde Nast assignments. | The free-lancer visited Italy on assignment. | neutral |
Twenty-five years ago, Pennsylvania pinball machines displayed this for entertainment purposes only. | The Pennsylvania pinball machines were displayed last year. | contradiction |
Did this really make her beautiful? | Everybody universally believed that she was beautiful. | contradiction |
If car insurance were a tax-free benefit, it wouldn't be surprising to find employers picking low-cost insurers who make you visit preferred mechanics and skimp on coverage for Land Rovers and minivans. | If car insurance was a tax-free benefit, it wouldn't be surprising to see car repair diligence suffer. | entailment |
I teach at a school with many poor whites and Latinos, many of whom can't afford home computers or did not learn how to use them in high school. | Some students never learn how to use computers because they were poor. | entailment |
She bummed around the beaches of western India with a husband (some say a lover) before settling down in Delhi's comfy Press Enclave, where all the newsies live (one review claims a cottage ... | She lived in the rich part of Delhi. | entailment |
Don't let the philosophy of Gingrich ... | Gingrich has influenced many. | neutral |
That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt. | There is no question that he overstated the power of biology. | entailment |
I suggest a test to resolve the matter. | Testing is a guarantee to solve the problem. | neutral |
The privacy of children under 13 is already protected under federal law. | There are no protections for children's privacy. | contradiction |
The reader is led to despise one character because of his bad taste in neckties, but not to hold racism and homophobia against another. | The reader was meant to love the quirkiness of the character who had terrible taste in ties. | contradiction |
While poisoning dogs is strictly illegal, there have to be two witnesses who saw the laying down of the poison, and even then the punishment is only a modest fine. | For conviction, two people must witness the perpetrator poison the dog. | entailment |
How does the high-minded dismissal work? | High-minded dismissal is not easily explained. | entailment |
Critics scoff at high-tech guru Esther Dyson's claims that the Internet will expand democracy, build communities, and liberate workers. | detractors mock Esther Dyson's claims. | entailment |
After Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, he endorsed strong gun control legislation, and as recently as last year he declared that AK-47s are inappropriate for private use. | Kennedy saw his actions in legislation might lead to his death. | neutral |
Technology to me has its good points and its bad points. | Technology is very important to society. | neutral |
Instead of my trusty old typewriter from my days at the Nashville Tennessean , I did get to write this article on a state-of the-art, ergonometric keyboard. | The author owns a typewriter. | entailment |
The media debated whether Bush's drug history should be probed. | It was later decided that Bush's drug history should be fully investigated. | neutral |
We were not servile to the Soviet Union, said Poland's last Communist Party prime minister, we were helpless before that huge force. | Poland let Russia have their way. | entailment |
Simpson defense : law professor Barry Scheck and forensic expert Henry Lee. | Henry Lee is of Chinese descent. | neutral |
But in fact Boulaye had advocated supporting a party, meaning the Conservative Party. | Boulaye believed conservatives had the best chance to win the upcoming election. | neutral |
The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web. | The thoughts only apply to entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. | neutral |
Unless one believes that the lives of Europeans are intrinsically more valuable than those of Africans, the humanitarian justification for military intervention is unsustainable, he wrote. | Humanitarian arguments weren't used to justify military actions in Africa or Europe. | contradiction |
The Di news continues as both mags chronicle the life and final drunken hours of Di driver Henri Paul. | Henri Paul was the focus of the Di news articles. | entailment |
Blame the good manners on Christmas spirit. | The Christmas spirit is responsible for the good manners. | entailment |
Alright, Van Zandt is one of my heroes, and I think his portrayal of a low-wattage Soprano soldier is a rip, so I'm prejudiced, but there was a kind of joy in that one scene that is missing from the rest of the episode. | Van Zandt is one of the best actors in the show. | neutral |
And I said, 'Where does Jesse Helms get off saying all these mean things about me? | Jesse Helms's comments did not attack anyone. | contradiction |
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. | There is no diversity at Yale. | contradiction |
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. | There are people who are fanatical about the weather. | entailment |
The ongoing government scrutiny itself may help to explain the absence of verifiable episodes of anti-competitive behavior by Microsoft. | Microsoft plans on purchasing more companies in 2021. | neutral |
In contrast to the well-oiled Gore machine, Bradley has no staff, message, money, or following. | Bore's campaign ran like a well oiled machine. | entailment |
That's what I remember about Woodstock. | Woodstock provides memories. | entailment |
She hereby promises to keep Culturebox itself MacDonald-free--at least for the time being. | She is giving MacDonald a chance to make things right. | neutral |
The only thing I liked about the first episode is Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante imitating Michael and Kay Corleone. | It was unfortunate that Steven Van Zandt did not appear in the first episode. | contradiction |
Once upon a time both he--and the audience--would be trying to peek up her short skirt. | No one - neither he nor the audience - attempted to peek up her skirt. | contradiction |
Quota sampling assumes that the answers of a particular demographic group such as white, 18-to-25-year-old Internet users can be projected to describe the opinions of white 18-to-25-year-olds at large. | Quota sampling pertains to demographics. | entailment |
He is not an economics writer | He does not write about economics. | entailment |
But by the time Avis' employees bought the company, the new thinking was that there was no better way of encouraging their creativity and dedication. | There was as an idea about the best way to encourage their creativity and dedication. | entailment |
He doesn't chew tobacco--I had to help him out a bit. | Tobacco can only be smoked, it can't be put in your mouth. | contradiction |
On one occasion recounted by the author, a woman rented a horse, stripped naked, and arrived at the door, Lady Godiva-style. | However, the author noted that it was an old woman who answered the door. | neutral |
I'm assuming they never think of me in this context because to them I was the other half of a couple with Rob, and it would somehow be disloyal on their part to introduce me to other men. | I had been together with Rob for several years. | neutral |
I mean to say only that if we ever did want to trash Earth, it would be morally permissible.) | It is the right thing to do in this case. | entailment |
But to this woman you are not replaceable at any price. | This woman believes you are irreplaceable. | entailment |
And later, a la Rousseau, As my understanding of the kinds of scripts about sexuality available to women bore down on me, the forest would function the way that fantasies of wilderness functioned for the urbanized eighteenth-century European I would find myself making a mental reference to the forest when I searched for a symbol for female lust. | Areas of natural wilderness have been used as a metaphor for female sexuality. | entailment |
Russia continues to bomb Chechnya. | Chechnya is being bombed by Russia. | entailment |
Government lawyers might not lie about the facts, says Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies. | Kate Martin is the spokesperson for the Center for National Security Studies. | neutral |
(And yes, we'd like one, hypocrites that we are, thank you very much.) | We are all of Chinese descent. | neutral |
It is enough that tragedy once again punished the Kennedys, wrote Cohen. | The Kennedy family has experienced multiple tragedies. | entailment |
What is reputed to be Gen. | Gen is a kind fellow who enjoys fishing. | neutral |
The funny thing about the Sumitomo affair is that if you ignore the exotic trimmings--the Japanese names, the Chinese connection--it's a story right out of the robber-baron era, the days of Jay Gould and Jim Fisk. | The Sumimoto affair did have a few exotic trimmings that were responsible for starting the whole thing. | neutral |
Here was an obviously experienced man coming into this young upstart's company, probably extremely well-dressed and with credentials earned before the CEO was even born. | The experienced man is of Chinese descent. | neutral |
There can be no specified time after which you know if you've found the right partner. | The right partner has a lot of money. | neutral |
(George W. Bush spent his 1978 congressional campaign excusing his father's membership in the Trilateral Commission.) | George W. Bush tried to defend his father. | neutral |
In a 1962 retreat for university students in Krakow, the future pope, espousing what sounds like the Gospel According to Carol Gilligan, told female participants that women are more feeling and intuitive people and become involved in things in a more sensitive and complete manner. | No future popes spoke at a 1962 student retreat in Krakow. | contradiction |
Some of his Republican colleagues dislike him for selfish reasons--they envy his popularity and resent his outsider stances. | Recent polls indicated he was nearly as popular as the president. | neutral |
The Seagram Co. expanded plans to advertise liquor on television, defying President Clinton's plea to honor the half-century-old voluntary ban. | Clinton wanted the country to drink less alcohol. | neutral |
(Only He plans a fourth Indiana Jones movie.) | Indiana Jones is one of the biggest franchises ever. | neutral |
The Grand Slam Breakfast just never took off. | The Grand Slam Breakfast did not catch on. | entailment |
Don't fight over small issues. | Conflict over minor issues is not worth fighting about. | entailment |
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