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Get rid of all guns?	A question was posed as to whether all firearms should be disposed of.	entailment
Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?	I really want to drink French wine.	entailment
The House should not take up impeachment until the hostilities have ended.	The house is considering impeactment.	entailment
The results were depressingly consistent.	The results were never consistent.	contradiction
Have the threats to our security doubled since then?	Our security is always being threatened.	contradiction
Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child.	Dolphins are large clumsy beasts.	contradiction
Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.	The author routinely publishes his own unfinished work.	neutral
[Monica] made him feel good about himself.	Monica wanted him to come to his own conclusion to make himself feel better.	neutral
It is not foolish to consider intent, hence the distinction between murder and accident and serious dieting.	Intent should be considered when differentiating between murder and accident.	entailment
That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.	It takes several years in order to amend even one policy.	neutral
He also knew what too many latter-day economists have Macroeconomics is crucial to the public credibility of economics as a whole.	Most economists are concerned that the public isn't educated enough to fully understand their work.	neutral
Even so, analysts' recommendations have manifested the Wall Street equivalent of grade inflation.	Due to analyst recommendation, grade inflation began taking place.	entailment
But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed.	All the tested hypotheses came back as confirmed.	contradiction
Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986.	Many people agreed with Reagan's argument about the War Powers Act.	neutral
But the Post made a telling omission here.	the Post just turned 48.	neutral
Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket.	There is nothing more extreme in men's dress, than the dinner jacket.	entailment
They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.	Low income women don't mind being fat.	neutral
When you run for president, you've got to think of the whole country, not just your own state.	The most successful presidential candidate will focus on their own state.	contradiction
An essay on the Atlanta shooter argues that he epitomizes the malaise of modern men disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy that shaped their fathers' lives.	Patriarchal and fraternal bonds are necessary to become an upstanding citizen.	neutral
To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression?	There are questions revolving around the Great Depression.	entailment
President Clinton, comparing the negotiations to those over the 1996 welfare bill, signaled that he will accept a compromise plan.	Clinton signaled using hand motions.	neutral
Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.	The author is multiligual.	neutral
Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is indispensable in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition . Never one for complacency, he teams up with his wife, Cokie Roberts of This Week , for the doubles The pair repeat the prediction that even privatization-friendly Dems will cynically whack GOP candidates who dare to support privatizing Social Security.	Democrats are not in favor of privatizing social security.	entailment
The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.	The cover story mentions U.S. relations with countries other than China.	neutral
I'd like to see us get on to the issues, replied Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., when asked on This Week about Broaddrick's allegation.	Daschle also talked about his own race on The Week.	neutral
New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness.	John Simon is from New York.	entailment
The editor published the study to help Clinton.	The purpose of the study was to benefit Clinton.	entailment
The fights are riotous slapstick set In the art museum finale, Chan fends off hordes of assassins while catching giant, priceless Ming vases as they tumble from their pedestals.	The fights in the movie are a good example of somber, grim-dark realism done well.	contradiction
It's a little hard to believe that the Jasons of the world end up straightening out, as Lewis titles the section about the worst-off cases, just as it's hard to buy the extreme view that parents are hopeless screw-ups.	It is hard to believe people named Jason end up straightening out.	entailment
By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs	Macroeconomics is not a profession and has no effect on the world.	contradiction
Once he took a year off to sell real He hated it.	He had taken a year off.	entailment
The basic premise of this line is that the findings of faith and reason are not at odds--only their methods are.	Faith and reason will find a common method.	neutral
Henry Gonzalez, the nuttiest, most obsessive Democrat of the last generation.	Last generation, Henry Gonzalez could be characterized as obsessive.	entailment
In the frame game, nuance is almost always a loser.	You cannot win the frame game without nuance.	contradiction
But instead of finding his behavior humiliating, as she now tells the Star was the case, the friend says she laughed it off.	his behavior was quite comical in the grand scheme of things.	entailment
A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a boyfriend and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title.	A woman I know said she has a partner.	entailment
Johnson's naivete is as convincingly natural as her nose, her lips, and her breasts.	The author has made an article critizing one of Johnson's roles.	neutral
The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous.	Compulsory voluntarism is linked to a mental disorder.	neutral
Other fragments and versions will add to what Callahan has assembled, not overwrite it.	Future versions will not erase Callahan's work.	entailment
Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors.	The U.S. men's hockey team was successful in the 1998 Olympics.	neutral
I bought two large tubes after your super review.	The author bought more than one tube.	entailment
According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform.	George W. Bush and Steve Forbes are good friends.	neutral
But who window shops anymore, except at 35 mph, through a window set in the frame of a vehicle?	They are riding in a car.	entailment
He is unpopular in the Senate.	He is unpopular in other places.	neutral
I >n cases labeled as serious physical abuse, the reported injury could be mental or emotional.	There is also a classification of minor physical abuse.	neutral
Admirably reticent, compared to Robert Bennett.	Robert Bennett loved to gossip with whoever would listen.	neutral
The movie reveals what such a society could be like and what a horror it would be.	The movie reveals the alien society from mars.	contradiction
For example, we asked Jeeves, Where can I find information about Bill Bradley and Medicaid?	We asked Jeeves where we could obtain info about Bill Bradley and Medicaid.	entailment
(For example, he guaranteed Bosnian Croats, who are wildly nationalistic, 12 seats in the parliament--even though they don't live in Croatia.)	he assured the Bosnian Croats twelve seats in the parliament.	entailment
Judging from their undergraduate careers alone, you might well argue that the examples of Bill Bradley and George W. Bush illustrate a subtler point about affirmative action than mere thumbs-up or thumbs-down.	Both Bill Bradley and George W. Bush relied on affirmative action to get into college.	neutral
Talk about when you became out of touch with her and maybe why.	There was a time where we became out of touch.	entailment
Why are you coming at me with that pillow?	The pillow could be dangerous.	neutral
It offered reportage that chronicles the good, the bad, and the otherwise, and leaves readers fully informed and equipped to judge what deserves their attention and support.	Unfortunately, few ever take the time to read or think critically.	neutral
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.	Mitch McConnell is working together with McCain to pass bills on tobacco and campaign-finance.	contradiction
Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city?	The way guides cover the city can be questioned.	entailment
And odd as it sounds, hiring influence peddlers generates good will on Capitol Hill.	Capitol Hill has influence peddlers.	entailment
The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway.	The New York Times reported on heath care and insurance issues after 1994.	entailment
After Democrats lost the House, the NEA budget was cut in half.	If Democrats had kept the House the NEA would have kept it's full budget.	neutral
TV is the most important medium for conveying history.	TV plays no part in conveying history.	contradiction
Whenever the country emerges from a national trauma and focuses on its piggy bank, presidential expectations shrink.	People expect less from a president after a national trauma.	entailment
But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant.	It was difficult to predict exactly whom Yeltsin would choose as his appointees.	entailment
As she leaned over the counter to hand me my purchase, it became clear that her lingerie preference was none at all.	I could see she did not have on any lingerie.	entailment
Pennebaker made about Dylan's previous European tour in 1965, Eat the Document , which was edited by Dylan himself, is a pointless coda.	Dylan was popular in Europe.	neutral
We see a worker clocking in while the narrator points to 10 million new jobs and, as the spot cuts to a Kennedyesque Clinton with children, it concludes with the phrase a better future.	Clinton was not seen with kids in the video.	contradiction
Israelis distrust him because he was in the PLO and his brother is a member of Hamas, while Palestinians despise him for cooperating with their enemy, the Israelis.	Before he started cooperating with Israel he was highly respected by Palestinians.	neutral
It works out to about 5 cents per lie.	It costs 5 cents per lie.	entailment
Excuse me, but who is going to raise such an army (raise in the sense used by parents)?	The word raise can be used in more than one way.	entailment
The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection.	The tobacco industry is not having any problems whatsoever.	contradiction
The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them extraordinary opportunities to preen.	Janet Maslin wrote about Matt Dillon's and Gary Sinise's movie in the New York Times.	entailment
There are indeed invocations of the Holocaust to which I'd apply this description.	The Holocaust never occured.	contradiction
But filters aren't just for concerned parents.	the filters have many different settings.	neutral
George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.	At least three people participated.	entailment
The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.	Groups dealing with orthography are also dealing with semantics.	entailment
Were these counterparts--mainly big banks and other institutional investors--simply naive?	The big banks were not naive, they knew exactly what they were doing.	neutral
Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster.	Non-discount rates were being promoted more than discount rates.	neutral
NAAG meets four times a year so its various committees can hash out ideas for litigation, like the billing fraud case now being developed against the hospital chains.	NAAG is a very successful company.	neutral
I hope it's not egotistical of me to think that when I write an article for, say, the New Republic , I am not reaching nearly everyone who might have an interest in it.	More people would be interested in this piece than just those who read the New Republic.	neutral
Between 1989 and 1993, 48,000 students received Pell Grant overpayments; 35,000 received Pell Grants from two separate schools simultaneously; and 101,000 students, ineligible for Pell Grants because they had defaulted on federally guaranteed loans, received them anyway.	The Pell Grant has never given out an extra dollar to any students.	contradiction
Please note that, like a reheated stew, this dodge works even better after a military action has begun.	In this analogy, reheated stew tastes better than it did when originally served.	entailment
Naturally, European governments want to tax call-back services out of existence.	European governments are interested in taxing certain types of businesses.	entailment
But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake.	There's a bigger gamble when buying on margin.	entailment
Gore, like Clinton, has often used cultural issues such as abortion to make the GOP look extreme.	Abortion has been used as a political tool to make Republican views appear extreme.	entailment
No one should be angrier about this than Stephen Labaton, Jeff Gerth, and Safire's other colleagues at the Times who have patiently pursued the Clinton scandals in a careful way.	No one at the Times was investigating the Clintons.	contradiction
In either case, stripped to its essentials, a left-of-center program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else (i.e.	The program seeks to help to the prosperous at the expense of no one.	contradiction
He dramatizes right up to the point where a dramatist would be expected to provide some insight--and then, hey, he's a documentarian.	He is able to both dramatize and serve as a documentarian.	entailment
She was a mother and thirty-three years old, and it seemed to her that everyone, especially someone the baker's age--a man old enough to be her father--must have children who'd gone through this special time of cakes and birthday parties.	The baker had never had children because his wife was unable to conceive.	neutral
Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.	Pollock was a painter.	entailment
Instead, they have been reduced to discussion about whether he is prone to tirades.	The discussion soon turned into arguing.	neutral
The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers.	Next year's competition will have a total of four contestants.	entailment
This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.	Not all book stores are part of major conglomerates.	entailment
Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me.	Ross was not ready to own his vote.	entailment
I n If a friend tells you you'll love Happy Texas , rethink the friendship.	People have opinions about Happy Texas.	entailment
So, they compensate with vocabulary, animating their play with exaggerated violence and tough talk, smashing, kicking, and zapping the imaginary bad guys.	They make up for it with their vocabulary.	entailment
The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation.	Teakettles are very popular.	entailment
Preferential treatment for big donors is nothing new.	Big donors have had special treatment before.	entailment
Getting the president re-elected is only one of the many, many accomplishments claimed by Morris, who plays both Boswell and Johnson in his memoirs.	Boswell and Johnson go the president re-elected.	neutral
Even so, it is better to avoid the crash-causing exuberance than it is to try to keep a crash from triggering a depression.	Crashes can lead to depression.	entailment
Markets get caught in self-perpetuating cycles of undue optimism and hysterical panic.	Markets are irrational beasts that succumbs to optimism and panic.	entailment
The revival of interest in Wilde--another play about him ( Gross Indecency ) and a new movie ( Wilde )--continues to delight critics.	the resurrection of interest in Wilde has contributed a new film as well as another play.	entailment
Ajami's heroes are figures such as Egypt's novelist Naguib Mahfuz, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibah, and the tragic Hawi--men of integrity imbued with the old, confident spirit of cosmopolitanism and an openness to the Western ideas that led to the Arab awakening in the first place.	Ajami has more than one hero.	entailment

Get rid of all guns?

A question was posed as to whether all firearms should be disposed of.

entailment

Would it be rude if I took a nice bottle of French wine (OK, maybe two)?

I really want to drink French wine.

entailment

The House should not take up impeachment until the hostilities have ended.

The house is considering impeactment.

entailment

The results were depressingly consistent.

The results were never consistent.

contradiction

Have the threats to our security doubled since then?

Our security is always being threatened.

contradiction

Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child.

Dolphins are large clumsy beasts.

contradiction

Indeed, a great, unfinished work can be more fascinating than a finished one because of the way the reader is drawn into the artistic process.

The author routinely publishes his own unfinished work.

neutral

[Monica] made him feel good about himself.

Monica wanted him to come to his own conclusion to make himself feel better.

neutral

It is not foolish to consider intent, hence the distinction between murder and accident and serious dieting.

Intent should be considered when differentiating between murder and accident.

entailment

That is, these things--transportation policy, lubrication policy--are decided not by what is most needed but by who is in need.

It takes several years in order to amend even one policy.

neutral

He also knew what too many latter-day economists have Macroeconomics is crucial to the public credibility of economics as a whole.

Most economists are concerned that the public isn't educated enough to fully understand their work.

neutral

Even so, analysts' recommendations have manifested the Wall Street equivalent of grade inflation.

Due to analyst recommendation, grade inflation began taking place.

entailment

But, said De Long and Lang, out of 78 true hypotheses, surely there should be at least a few that are overwhelmingly confirmed.

All the tested hypotheses came back as confirmed.

contradiction

Reagan argued that the War Powers Act didn't apply when he sent troops to Lebanon in 1982, or to Grenada in 1983, or when he bombed Libya in 1986.

Many people agreed with Reagan's argument about the War Powers Act.

neutral

But the Post made a telling omission here.

the Post just turned 48.

neutral

Of course, the extreme in men's dress is the dinner jacket.

There is nothing more extreme in men's dress, than the dinner jacket.

entailment

They had a greater tolerance for weight gain, saying it would take a 20 pound gain before they took action, as opposed to the 10 pound gain that would trigger action in higher-income women.

Low income women don't mind being fat.

neutral

When you run for president, you've got to think of the whole country, not just your own state.

The most successful presidential candidate will focus on their own state.

contradiction

An essay on the Atlanta shooter argues that he epitomizes the malaise of modern men disassociated from the bonds of fraternity and patriarchy that shaped their fathers' lives.

Patriarchal and fraternal bonds are necessary to become an upstanding citizen.

neutral

To life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression?

There are questions revolving around the Great Depression.

entailment

President Clinton, comparing the negotiations to those over the 1996 welfare bill, signaled that he will accept a compromise plan.

Clinton signaled using hand motions.

neutral

Although I speak with an English accent, my pronunciation can be modified to American English.

The author is multiligual.

neutral

Steve Roberts medals in singles competition for shoehorning his opinion that presidential diplomacy is indispensable in the New World Order into both Washington Week in Review and Late Edition . Never one for complacency, he teams up with his wife, Cokie Roberts of This Week , for the doubles The pair repeat the prediction that even privatization-friendly Dems will cynically whack GOP candidates who dare to support privatizing Social Security.

Democrats are not in favor of privatizing social security.

entailment

The cover story clucks over the dismal state of Sino-U.S. relations.

The cover story mentions U.S. relations with countries other than China.

neutral

I'd like to see us get on to the issues, replied Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., when asked on This Week about Broaddrick's allegation.

Daschle also talked about his own race on The Week.

neutral

New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness.

John Simon is from New York.

entailment

The editor published the study to help Clinton.

The purpose of the study was to benefit Clinton.

entailment

The fights are riotous slapstick set In the art museum finale, Chan fends off hordes of assassins while catching giant, priceless Ming vases as they tumble from their pedestals.

The fights in the movie are a good example of somber, grim-dark realism done well.

contradiction

It's a little hard to believe that the Jasons of the world end up straightening out, as Lewis titles the section about the worst-off cases, just as it's hard to buy the extreme view that parents are hopeless screw-ups.

It is hard to believe people named Jason end up straightening out.

entailment

By abandoning macroeconomics the profession not only leaves the world without guidance it desperately needs

Macroeconomics is not a profession and has no effect on the world.

contradiction

Once he took a year off to sell real He hated it.

He had taken a year off.

entailment

The basic premise of this line is that the findings of faith and reason are not at odds--only their methods are.

Faith and reason will find a common method.

neutral

Henry Gonzalez, the nuttiest, most obsessive Democrat of the last generation.

Last generation, Henry Gonzalez could be characterized as obsessive.

entailment

In the frame game, nuance is almost always a loser.

You cannot win the frame game without nuance.

contradiction

But instead of finding his behavior humiliating, as she now tells the Star was the case, the friend says she laughed it off.

his behavior was quite comical in the grand scheme of things.

entailment

A woman of my acquaintance recently announced that she has a boyfriend and wants everyone to introduce the fellow by that title.

A woman I know said she has a partner.

entailment

Johnson's naivete is as convincingly natural as her nose, her lips, and her breasts.

The author has made an article critizing one of Johnson's roles.

neutral

The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous.

Compulsory voluntarism is linked to a mental disorder.

neutral

Other fragments and versions will add to what Callahan has assembled, not overwrite it.

Future versions will not erase Callahan's work.

entailment

Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors.

The U.S. men's hockey team was successful in the 1998 Olympics.

neutral

I bought two large tubes after your super review.

The author bought more than one tube.

entailment

According to the Washington Post , Steve Forbes and George W. Bush are criticizing Al Gore for naively accepting Russian pledges of economic reform.

George W. Bush and Steve Forbes are good friends.

neutral

But who window shops anymore, except at 35 mph, through a window set in the frame of a vehicle?

They are riding in a car.

entailment

He is unpopular in the Senate.

He is unpopular in other places.

neutral

I >n cases labeled as serious physical abuse, the reported injury could be mental or emotional.

There is also a classification of minor physical abuse.

neutral

Admirably reticent, compared to Robert Bennett.

Robert Bennett loved to gossip with whoever would listen.

neutral

The movie reveals what such a society could be like and what a horror it would be.

The movie reveals the alien society from mars.

contradiction

For example, we asked Jeeves, Where can I find information about Bill Bradley and Medicaid?

We asked Jeeves where we could obtain info about Bill Bradley and Medicaid.

entailment

(For example, he guaranteed Bosnian Croats, who are wildly nationalistic, 12 seats in the parliament--even though they don't live in Croatia.)

he assured the Bosnian Croats twelve seats in the parliament.

entailment

Judging from their undergraduate careers alone, you might well argue that the examples of Bill Bradley and George W. Bush illustrate a subtler point about affirmative action than mere thumbs-up or thumbs-down.

Both Bill Bradley and George W. Bush relied on affirmative action to get into college.

neutral

Talk about when you became out of touch with her and maybe why.

There was a time where we became out of touch.

entailment

Why are you coming at me with that pillow?

The pillow could be dangerous.

neutral

It offered reportage that chronicles the good, the bad, and the otherwise, and leaves readers fully informed and equipped to judge what deserves their attention and support.

Unfortunately, few ever take the time to read or think critically.

neutral

Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has tried to focus scrutiny on McCain's tobacco and campaign-finance crusades.

Mitch McConnell is working together with McCain to pass bills on tobacco and campaign-finance.

contradiction

Are you finding any substantive differences in the way your guides cover the city?

The way guides cover the city can be questioned.

entailment

And odd as it sounds, hiring influence peddlers generates good will on Capitol Hill.

Capitol Hill has influence peddlers.

entailment

The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway.

The New York Times reported on heath care and insurance issues after 1994.

entailment

After Democrats lost the House, the NEA budget was cut in half.

If Democrats had kept the House the NEA would have kept it's full budget.

neutral

TV is the most important medium for conveying history.

TV plays no part in conveying history.

contradiction

Whenever the country emerges from a national trauma and focuses on its piggy bank, presidential expectations shrink.

People expect less from a president after a national trauma.

entailment

But, like many of Yeltsin's recent appointments, this one has the quality of being surprising without being brilliant.

It was difficult to predict exactly whom Yeltsin would choose as his appointees.

entailment

As she leaned over the counter to hand me my purchase, it became clear that her lingerie preference was none at all.

I could see she did not have on any lingerie.

entailment

Pennebaker made about Dylan's previous European tour in 1965, Eat the Document , which was edited by Dylan himself, is a pointless coda.

Dylan was popular in Europe.

neutral

We see a worker clocking in while the narrator points to 10 million new jobs and, as the spot cuts to a Kennedyesque Clinton with children, it concludes with the phrase a better future.

Clinton was not seen with kids in the video.

contradiction

Israelis distrust him because he was in the PLO and his brother is a member of Hamas, while Palestinians despise him for cooperating with their enemy, the Israelis.

Before he started cooperating with Israel he was highly respected by Palestinians.

neutral

It works out to about 5 cents per lie.

It costs 5 cents per lie.

entailment

Excuse me, but who is going to raise such an army (raise in the sense used by parents)?

The word raise can be used in more than one way.

entailment

The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection.

The tobacco industry is not having any problems whatsoever.

contradiction

The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them extraordinary opportunities to preen.

Janet Maslin wrote about Matt Dillon's and Gary Sinise's movie in the New York Times.

entailment

There are indeed invocations of the Holocaust to which I'd apply this description.

The Holocaust never occured.

contradiction

But filters aren't just for concerned parents.

the filters have many different settings.

neutral

George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Helmut Kohl participated in the commemoration.

At least three people participated.

entailment

The forces that are bringing a little more order to orthography are doing the same to semantics.

Groups dealing with orthography are also dealing with semantics.

entailment

Were these counterparts--mainly big banks and other institutional investors--simply naive?

The big banks were not naive, they knew exactly what they were doing.

neutral

Non-discount long-distance rates rose even faster.

Non-discount rates were being promoted more than discount rates.

neutral

NAAG meets four times a year so its various committees can hash out ideas for litigation, like the billing fraud case now being developed against the hospital chains.

NAAG is a very successful company.

neutral

I hope it's not egotistical of me to think that when I write an article for, say, the New Republic , I am not reaching nearly everyone who might have an interest in it.

More people would be interested in this piece than just those who read the New Republic.

neutral

Between 1989 and 1993, 48,000 students received Pell Grant overpayments; 35,000 received Pell Grants from two separate schools simultaneously; and 101,000 students, ineligible for Pell Grants because they had defaulted on federally guaranteed loans, received them anyway.

The Pell Grant has never given out an extra dollar to any students.

contradiction

Please note that, like a reheated stew, this dodge works even better after a military action has begun.

In this analogy, reheated stew tastes better than it did when originally served.

entailment

Naturally, European governments want to tax call-back services out of existence.

European governments are interested in taxing certain types of businesses.

entailment

But he never makes clear that buying on margin means that you stand to lose a lot more when you make a mistake.

There's a bigger gamble when buying on margin.

entailment

Gore, like Clinton, has often used cultural issues such as abortion to make the GOP look extreme.

Abortion has been used as a political tool to make Republican views appear extreme.

entailment

No one should be angrier about this than Stephen Labaton, Jeff Gerth, and Safire's other colleagues at the Times who have patiently pursued the Clinton scandals in a careful way.

No one at the Times was investigating the Clintons.

contradiction

In either case, stripped to its essentials, a left-of-center program seeks to help the less prosperous at the expense of everybody else (i.e.

The program seeks to help to the prosperous at the expense of no one.

contradiction

He dramatizes right up to the point where a dramatist would be expected to provide some insight--and then, hey, he's a documentarian.

He is able to both dramatize and serve as a documentarian.

entailment

She was a mother and thirty-three years old, and it seemed to her that everyone, especially someone the baker's age--a man old enough to be her father--must have children who'd gone through this special time of cakes and birthday parties.

The baker had never had children because his wife was unable to conceive.

neutral

Here Pollock's camouflage palette, as Varnedoe notes, gives way to carnival.

Pollock was a painter.

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Instead, they have been reduced to discussion about whether he is prone to tirades.

The discussion soon turned into arguing.

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The Hackathlete who polls the greatest total will be declared the winner and will return next year to face three new challengers.

Next year's competition will have a total of four contestants.

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This list was a concession to independent bookstores, many of which were outraged when the Times created hot links between every single book on its Internet best-seller list and Barnes and; Noble's online bookstore, which then gave a 30 percent discount to all the listed books.

Not all book stores are part of major conglomerates.

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Perhaps in an unconscious act of denial--an inability to face up to his complicated but altogether human motives for voting as he did--the week after his vote, Ross wrote to his This storm of passion will soon pass away, and the people, the whole people, will thank and bless me for having saved the country by my single vote from the greatest peril through which it has ever passed, though none but God can ever know the struggle it has cost me.

Ross was not ready to own his vote.

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I n If a friend tells you you'll love Happy Texas , rethink the friendship.

People have opinions about Happy Texas.

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So, they compensate with vocabulary, animating their play with exaggerated violence and tough talk, smashing, kicking, and zapping the imaginary bad guys.

They make up for it with their vocabulary.

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The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation.

Teakettles are very popular.

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Preferential treatment for big donors is nothing new.

Big donors have had special treatment before.

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Getting the president re-elected is only one of the many, many accomplishments claimed by Morris, who plays both Boswell and Johnson in his memoirs.

Boswell and Johnson go the president re-elected.

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Even so, it is better to avoid the crash-causing exuberance than it is to try to keep a crash from triggering a depression.

Crashes can lead to depression.

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Markets get caught in self-perpetuating cycles of undue optimism and hysterical panic.

Markets are irrational beasts that succumbs to optimism and panic.

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The revival of interest in Wilde--another play about him ( Gross Indecency ) and a new movie ( Wilde )--continues to delight critics.

the resurrection of interest in Wilde has contributed a new film as well as another play.

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Ajami's heroes are figures such as Egypt's novelist Naguib Mahfuz, the Palestinian academic Sari Nusseibah, and the tragic Hawi--men of integrity imbued with the old, confident spirit of cosmopolitanism and an openness to the Western ideas that led to the Arab awakening in the first place.

Ajami has more than one hero.

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