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(Watch previews and join The Odyssey chat on NBC's site.)	NBC has a website on the internet.	entailment
The result is, therefore, not mammary-specific, but more general.	Rather than being specific, the end result is more general in-nature.	entailment
2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union.	The Mafia controlled many unions before the government cleaned them up.	entailment
Are we talking about dozens of people or thousands?	We are not talking about people at all.	contradiction
Starr's goal--as Bruce Shapiro, in a perceptive anti-Starr Salon essay , recognizes--is most likely not to vindicate Willey but to unravel a presidential cover-up conspiracy.	The essay is likely to have ramifications for a presidential cover-up conspiracy.	entailment
The wet wool smell of your uncles in their Eaton's sweaters and army surplus peacoats and shredded wheat for breakfast and thin ice on the tide pools and diesel as the engines kick in.	Your uncles have Eaton's sweaters in every color.	neutral
The Nixon Analogy: Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire.	The Flytrap-Watergate comparison is expected to succeed at a rate of 100%.	contradiction
If it hits, there's a big syndication upside.	There are no syndication benefits either way.	contradiction
How they do so may be within our control.	Their actions are harmful and must be controlled.	neutral
And the signs made it easier for visitors to find their way around.	The signs made it confusing for visitors.	contradiction
In a limited way, the Reagan speech served as guidance for his policies after he came into office.	The Reagan speech shifted the way he thought about policy, and he used it as a beacon in some ways.	entailment
Besides, to indulge specific grievances once they've become terrorist causes is to encourage terrorism.	Indulging the grievances before they've become terrorist causes does not have any effect on terrorism.	neutral
Steve Forbes intends to advertise on day trading and investment sites, where people who might vote for him are likely to be found.	Steve Forbes could drop out of the race.	neutral
The one extracurricular venue where I run into a lot of Asian-Americans is a Very Serious music school in Scarsdale, the suburban town in the New York area that (because of its famous school system) has the most name-brand appeal for transferred Japanese executives.	My parents live in Scarsdale and I visit them there occasionally.	neutral
Terrible scenes of massacres, bombings, and the like are displayed almost daily.	There are good scenes displayed daily.	neutral
The second variety of white race-consciousness--whiteness-as-burden--is no less tangled up in hypocrisy.	race-consciousness is a new term.	neutral
Also in Newsweek , an essay by Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that American foreign aid and investment will improve human rights.	Newsweek paid Hillary Clinton for the privilege to use her essay in their publication.	neutral
Now the party is trying to prevent him from jumping ship.	He loved the party so much that he partied all night.	contradiction
White critics of integration include the neo-conservatives , former liberals who supported the civil-rights mainstream until the early '70s.	Former liberals don't agree with neo-conservatives on any issues.	contradiction
Our Today's Papers column will be posted Friday (but not Thanksgiving Day).	The Thanksgiving Day issue will be a special issue.	neutral
Many Protestants have no doubt that Jesus is really present in the Communion distributed at Catholic Masses.	Protestants believe in Jesus.	entailment
It's true that many, many Jews will be killed.	More than one Jew will be killed.	entailment
Clinton ( sorrowfully ): It wasn't me.	Clinton admitted to everything.	contradiction
More than that, once a condition is established as a diagnosis, society practically treats it as a crime not to do something about it.	The condition is never established as a diagnosis in these situations.	contradiction
And in the Where are they now?	They are actually retired and sitting on a beach.	neutral
Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.	The story in question pertains to a grocery co-op which opened last year.	neutral
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.	Low-cost insurers would make you visit preferred mechanics under certain car insurance tax policies.	neutral
The sixth version of the classic cookbook occasions nostalgia for the 1931 original.	There are at least six editions of this cookbook.	entailment
Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus.	The company is operating outside of the declared plans.	neutral
Joe Biden, D-Del., betrayed the No, I don't think we can negotiate with him--if you mean can we, in fact, work out something other than those minimal demands that were stated by NATO.	NATO made no demands.	contradiction
Truscott compares the intensive training you get in the Army with one of these weapons long before you're ever allowed to fire it, and then only under the supervision of an expert marksman, with the situation in states like Arkansas, where it's legal for a 10-year-old to own a semiautomatic assault weapon without a moment of safety instruction, training in how to shoot it or adult supervision.	Parents try not to let their kids own assault weapons even if they're allowed to.	neutral
(Actually, you could have as many judges as you wanted, as long as you ignored all but one of them.)	They could ignore all but one judge.	entailment
For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative.	Albright has been hesitant to meet with Simova.	entailment
Challenged by the Human Rights Campaign's Elizabeth Birch in the letters column of the Dec. 8 Standard , Bennett, remarkably, dug in to defend the Cameron numbers, which he said coincided with the views of other authorities such as psychiatrist . Satinover's 1996 book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth , does discuss gay life spans, but cites as its authority ...	Bennett has made an argument in support of the validity of the Cameron numbers.	entailment
The affinity between pigeons and tourists makes sense.	Tourists love taking pictures of pigeons.	neutral
The cover story reports on new discoveries about human evolution.	There has been new information about human evolution.	entailment
Has the World Wide Web, which only appeared in 1993, failed us?	The negative aspects of the internet should allow us to consider the internet as a failure.	neutral
Part of the answer may be that our financial system has become dangerously efficient.	The financial system is good at its job.	entailment
4. Mr. Bork says that when Microsoft also tried to hire him, he gave the company's lawyer a hearing, with the understanding that if he convinced me, I would simply stay out of the case.	Microsoft wanted Mr. Bork to work for their company.	entailment
When compared to Thomas Jefferson, Stewart replies, I'm reaching more people.	Stewart believes he talks to more people than Thomas Jefferson.	entailment
Based on scuttlebutt and speculation from insiders at the Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Ford White Houses, here are the four likeliest scenarios for presidential adultery.	Nixon is another president that may have committed adultery.	neutral
He got $3 million for Basic Instinct , then $2.	The author of the Basic Instinct script received no money for his work.	contradiction
There's a name for this personnel It's called Pass the Trash.	Pass the Trash is an odd name for personnel.	neutral
An article says his daughter Tina and wife Barbara will squabble over his $200 million estate.	His wife is Tina and his daughter is Barbara.	contradiction
Then I jump in with a higher bid at the end, hoping that at least some of those competitors are away from their computers and unable to respond.	Placing bids occurs in an auction where one is trying to purchase a product.	entailment
Their last words are, Honest, I wish I could persuade you that I neither love nor hate technology.	Some people are neutral about technology	neutral
Whenever viewers hear of the treaty again, the first thing they're likely to think of is that map--just as the phrase Clinton health plan came to trigger the picture of Harry and Louise being denied the right to choose their own doctor.	The Clinton health plan triggered concerns that people wouldn't be able to see their preferred healthcare provider.	entailment
Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.	Bauer was adamant in describing his beliefs.	entailment
In the case of Microsoft, Blumenthal of Connecticut appears to have won the coveted prize, managing to eclipse Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is chairman of the NAAG's antitrust committee, and New York's Vacco, who heads the consumer committee.	The prize was coveted by many prominent politicians and chairpersons.	entailment
But the real hope for ending the AIDS epidemic is not expensive drug therapies.	AIDS drug therapies are expensive.	entailment
As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth.	It will benefit Flowers if they embellish the story.	entailment
And those are just the towns along Lake Como.	The towns along Lake Como are not included.	contradiction
And it's not that they don't know any.	They don't know any	contradiction
The Supreme Court began its new term.	The Supreme Court is the name of a Tennis Tournament.	contradiction
It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off.	Men who are not violent are more likely to be killed.	entailment
People were chuckling about the Rome of the Decadence effect of the big lawn bolster recliners.	The people laughed about the lawn bolster recliners	entailment
I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him.	At on point in time, Blumenthal was employed by the New Yorker.	entailment
In Serbia, President Slobodan Milosevic sanctioned the removal in 1987 of the body of Serbian hero Czar Lazar, killed 600 years before by Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, so it could be paraded around Slovenia and Croatia in a display of Serb power.	Serbia never used the deceased as a display of power.	contradiction
Can you believe this?	This might be true.	neutral
One Because they're cyber sages.	These sages occur in the physical world.	contradiction
Utah looks like my dream come true.	The author has never been to Utah.	neutral
The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.	The Wall Street Journal only had a brief line telling the outcome of the strike.	contradiction
The point is that you are not merely slicing up the same pie--you are increasing the size of the pie.	the bulk of the pie is shrinking.	contradiction
A Palestinian state is a certainty, according to an article, but sovereignty will be a sham.	Palestine will continually fight for their sovereignty.	neutral
Name-calling began at their first interaction.	insults started flying when they first met.	entailment
You say that it's not important who asked the question.	They are making an excuse for the fact they don't actually know who asked the question.	neutral
Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.	The new currency has a cryptocurrency counterpart.	neutral
It's not like we want it by mid-February.	We're not demanding to have it in the middle of the second month of the year.	entailment
The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world.	The article found that the justice did not have a bitter bone in his body.	contradiction
I mastered the words portiere (goalkeeper), colpo di testa (header), and quattro minuti di ricupero (four minutes of injury time).	I do not know any Italian.	contradiction
The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches).	The bones identified stand at 5 feet and 9 inches.	entailment
That argument which holds that the attempt to raise saving will end up lowering national income, because consumption will fall, and with it profits, output, and employment.	With more savings, innovation and creativity fall as well.	neutral
Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time.	Amazon admits that the form is confusing to use.	entailment
The images in Touch of E v il have been boiled down so that all its ingredients are mashed together in the sludge.	Touch of Evil is made of just one ingredient.	contradiction
On the other hand, some states have passed new laws that treat juvenile criminals as responsible adults.	Juveniles will be tried as adults under new laws in some states.	entailment
Perhaps we are now seeing a new social phenomenon--trophy kids.	Social phenomenons continue to change, for better or worse.	neutral
Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship.	There is a cult of Picasso.	entailment
No ballots will be accepted after May 6, 1998.	Ballot votes will not be counted after May 6, 1998.	neutral
A few minutes later, Stephanie Trotter, a local NBC reporter, asked the candidates, Gentlemen, I'm curious.	Trotter wants to ask something of the candidates views.	neutral
We don't trust Madison Avenue to tell us the truth about fabric softener, so why are we letting it brainwash our children about drugs?	Madison Avenue is a street where fabric softeners are sold.	neutral
(Not surprisingly, the least dismissive big-name child-care expert is a woman, Penelope Leach.)	Penelope Leach is a man.	contradiction
In some countries, they'd be the dinner.	Something would be eaten in other countries.	entailment
(Gillette owns 67 percent of the U.S. razor market, and Campbell's has more than 75 percent of the U.S. soup market.)	Campbells has the majority of the U.S. market for soup.	entailment
Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.	Russian Israelis want nothing more than to distance themselves from the country.	contradiction
Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.	Downturns in the economy serve as punishment for our transgressions.	contradiction
As it stands now, police officers, especially in urban areas, present more illegally obtained evidence than legally obtained evidence.	Most of the illegally obtained evidence relates to drug charges.	neutral
If you missed the link to the refresher on harassment law and its history, click .	Click this link to get a refresher on the harassment law and history.	entailment
But in anything as complicated as aviation or romance, there are infinite possibilities for debacle.	In fact, aviators are known romantics.	neutral
but made mother smoke it up just in case,	Things become higher quality when they are smoked.	neutral
The Vatican barred an American priest and nun from ministering to gays.	The priest and nun were attempting to convert gay people to heterosexuality.	neutral
They're interested in the clash of personalities.	People with strong personalities are having differences.	entailment
Then you can celebrate your license by getting high.	Then you can celebrate your license by eating a piece of cake.	contradiction
Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.	I have received input about doing a piece.	entailment
As with Ron Brown, we'd like to know whether Ames was a monopolist or one of many sellers in a competitive marketplace.	Ron Brown was a monopolist.	neutral
It'll be a good thing for all of us if she finally gets into the habit of speaking for herself.	It will benefit everyone if she learns to speak for herself.	entailment
The boycott has been called off, but demands persist for full disclosure of records of Holocaust victims' assets, and there's little sign the Swiss will recover their pristine image any time soon.	Protestors stopped a boycott but still continued to tarnish the Swiss for non transparency.	entailment
(Click to learn more about the surprising Islamic origins of this argument and what Ludwig Wittgenstein had to say about it.)	If you click here, you'll learn about Islamic origins of this particular argument.	entailment
Who can blame him for lying to the gullible young?	He didn't lie about everything he said in the story.	neutral
On The Simpsons , for example, Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times (according to the Simpsons Archive Web site).	Presidents are never depicted on The Simpsons.	contradiction
What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat.	Commoditization is a threat to the candy industry.	neutral

(Watch previews and join The Odyssey chat on NBC's site.)

NBC has a website on the internet.

entailment

The result is, therefore, not mammary-specific, but more general.

Rather than being specific, the end result is more general in-nature.

entailment

2) The government cleaned up the unions . As late as 1986, the Justice Department found that the Mafia controlled the International Longshoremen's Association, the Hotel and Restaurant Employees union, the Teamsters union, and the Laborers' International Union.

The Mafia controlled many unions before the government cleaned them up.

entailment

Are we talking about dozens of people or thousands?

We are not talking about people at all.

contradiction

Starr's goal--as Bruce Shapiro, in a perceptive anti-Starr Salon essay , recognizes--is most likely not to vindicate Willey but to unravel a presidential cover-up conspiracy.

The essay is likely to have ramifications for a presidential cover-up conspiracy.

entailment

The wet wool smell of your uncles in their Eaton's sweaters and army surplus peacoats and shredded wheat for breakfast and thin ice on the tide pools and diesel as the engines kick in.

Your uncles have Eaton's sweaters in every color.

neutral

The Nixon Analogy: Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire.

The Flytrap-Watergate comparison is expected to succeed at a rate of 100%.

contradiction

If it hits, there's a big syndication upside.

There are no syndication benefits either way.

contradiction

How they do so may be within our control.

Their actions are harmful and must be controlled.

neutral

And the signs made it easier for visitors to find their way around.

The signs made it confusing for visitors.

contradiction

In a limited way, the Reagan speech served as guidance for his policies after he came into office.

The Reagan speech shifted the way he thought about policy, and he used it as a beacon in some ways.

entailment

Besides, to indulge specific grievances once they've become terrorist causes is to encourage terrorism.

Indulging the grievances before they've become terrorist causes does not have any effect on terrorism.

neutral

Steve Forbes intends to advertise on day trading and investment sites, where people who might vote for him are likely to be found.

Steve Forbes could drop out of the race.

neutral

The one extracurricular venue where I run into a lot of Asian-Americans is a Very Serious music school in Scarsdale, the suburban town in the New York area that (because of its famous school system) has the most name-brand appeal for transferred Japanese executives.

My parents live in Scarsdale and I visit them there occasionally.

neutral

Terrible scenes of massacres, bombings, and the like are displayed almost daily.

There are good scenes displayed daily.

neutral

The second variety of white race-consciousness--whiteness-as-burden--is no less tangled up in hypocrisy.

race-consciousness is a new term.

neutral

Also in Newsweek , an essay by Hillary Rodham Clinton argues that American foreign aid and investment will improve human rights.

Newsweek paid Hillary Clinton for the privilege to use her essay in their publication.

neutral

Now the party is trying to prevent him from jumping ship.

He loved the party so much that he partied all night.

contradiction

White critics of integration include the neo-conservatives , former liberals who supported the civil-rights mainstream until the early '70s.

Former liberals don't agree with neo-conservatives on any issues.

contradiction

Our Today's Papers column will be posted Friday (but not Thanksgiving Day).

The Thanksgiving Day issue will be a special issue.

neutral

Many Protestants have no doubt that Jesus is really present in the Communion distributed at Catholic Masses.

Protestants believe in Jesus.

entailment

It's true that many, many Jews will be killed.

More than one Jew will be killed.

entailment

Clinton ( sorrowfully ): It wasn't me.

Clinton admitted to everything.

contradiction

More than that, once a condition is established as a diagnosis, society practically treats it as a crime not to do something about it.

The condition is never established as a diagnosis in these situations.

contradiction

And in the Where are they now?

They are actually retired and sitting on a beach.

neutral

Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.

The story in question pertains to a grocery co-op which opened last year.

neutral

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.

Low-cost insurers would make you visit preferred mechanics under certain car insurance tax policies.

neutral

The sixth version of the classic cookbook occasions nostalgia for the 1931 original.

There are at least six editions of this cookbook.

entailment

Needless to say, these plans had not been in the prospectus.

The company is operating outside of the declared plans.

neutral

Joe Biden, D-Del., betrayed the No, I don't think we can negotiate with him--if you mean can we, in fact, work out something other than those minimal demands that were stated by NATO.

NATO made no demands.

contradiction

Truscott compares the intensive training you get in the Army with one of these weapons long before you're ever allowed to fire it, and then only under the supervision of an expert marksman, with the situation in states like Arkansas, where it's legal for a 10-year-old to own a semiautomatic assault weapon without a moment of safety instruction, training in how to shoot it or adult supervision.

Parents try not to let their kids own assault weapons even if they're allowed to.

neutral

(Actually, you could have as many judges as you wanted, as long as you ignored all but one of them.)

They could ignore all but one judge.

entailment

For reasons unknown, Albright has rejected Simova's attempts to set up more meetings, though Simova is her only surviving Czech relative.

Albright has been hesitant to meet with Simova.

entailment

Challenged by the Human Rights Campaign's Elizabeth Birch in the letters column of the Dec. 8 Standard , Bennett, remarkably, dug in to defend the Cameron numbers, which he said coincided with the views of other authorities such as psychiatrist . Satinover's 1996 book, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth , does discuss gay life spans, but cites as its authority ...

Bennett has made an argument in support of the validity of the Cameron numbers.

entailment

The affinity between pigeons and tourists makes sense.

Tourists love taking pictures of pigeons.

neutral

The cover story reports on new discoveries about human evolution.

There has been new information about human evolution.

entailment

Has the World Wide Web, which only appeared in 1993, failed us?

The negative aspects of the internet should allow us to consider the internet as a failure.

neutral

Part of the answer may be that our financial system has become dangerously efficient.

The financial system is good at its job.

entailment

4. Mr. Bork says that when Microsoft also tried to hire him, he gave the company's lawyer a hearing, with the understanding that if he convinced me, I would simply stay out of the case.

Microsoft wanted Mr. Bork to work for their company.

entailment

When compared to Thomas Jefferson, Stewart replies, I'm reaching more people.

Stewart believes he talks to more people than Thomas Jefferson.

entailment

Based on scuttlebutt and speculation from insiders at the Clinton, Bush, Reagan, and Ford White Houses, here are the four likeliest scenarios for presidential adultery.

Nixon is another president that may have committed adultery.

neutral

He got $3 million for Basic Instinct , then $2.

The author of the Basic Instinct script received no money for his work.

contradiction

There's a name for this personnel It's called Pass the Trash.

Pass the Trash is an odd name for personnel.

neutral

An article says his daughter Tina and wife Barbara will squabble over his $200 million estate.

His wife is Tina and his daughter is Barbara.

contradiction

Then I jump in with a higher bid at the end, hoping that at least some of those competitors are away from their computers and unable to respond.

Placing bids occurs in an auction where one is trying to purchase a product.

entailment

Their last words are, Honest, I wish I could persuade you that I neither love nor hate technology.

Some people are neutral about technology

neutral

Whenever viewers hear of the treaty again, the first thing they're likely to think of is that map--just as the phrase Clinton health plan came to trigger the picture of Harry and Louise being denied the right to choose their own doctor.

The Clinton health plan triggered concerns that people wouldn't be able to see their preferred healthcare provider.

entailment

Bauer decried what he called the virtue deficit.

Bauer was adamant in describing his beliefs.

entailment

In the case of Microsoft, Blumenthal of Connecticut appears to have won the coveted prize, managing to eclipse Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is chairman of the NAAG's antitrust committee, and New York's Vacco, who heads the consumer committee.

The prize was coveted by many prominent politicians and chairpersons.

entailment

But the real hope for ending the AIDS epidemic is not expensive drug therapies.

AIDS drug therapies are expensive.

entailment

As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth.

It will benefit Flowers if they embellish the story.

entailment

And those are just the towns along Lake Como.

The towns along Lake Como are not included.

contradiction

And it's not that they don't know any.

They don't know any

contradiction

The Supreme Court began its new term.

The Supreme Court is the name of a Tennis Tournament.

contradiction

It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off.

Men who are not violent are more likely to be killed.

entailment

People were chuckling about the Rome of the Decadence effect of the big lawn bolster recliners.

The people laughed about the lawn bolster recliners

entailment

I worked with Blumenthal at the New Yorker and didn't like him.

At on point in time, Blumenthal was employed by the New Yorker.

entailment

In Serbia, President Slobodan Milosevic sanctioned the removal in 1987 of the body of Serbian hero Czar Lazar, killed 600 years before by Turks at the Battle of Kosovo, so it could be paraded around Slovenia and Croatia in a display of Serb power.

Serbia never used the deceased as a display of power.

contradiction

Can you believe this?

This might be true.

neutral

One Because they're cyber sages.

These sages occur in the physical world.

contradiction

Utah looks like my dream come true.

The author has never been to Utah.

neutral

The Wall Street Journal points out that this decision influenced the strike's outcome.

The Wall Street Journal only had a brief line telling the outcome of the strike.

contradiction

The point is that you are not merely slicing up the same pie--you are increasing the size of the pie.

the bulk of the pie is shrinking.

contradiction

A Palestinian state is a certainty, according to an article, but sovereignty will be a sham.

Palestine will continually fight for their sovereignty.

neutral

Name-calling began at their first interaction.

insults started flying when they first met.

entailment

You say that it's not important who asked the question.

They are making an excuse for the fact they don't actually know who asked the question.

neutral

Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.

The new currency has a cryptocurrency counterpart.

neutral

It's not like we want it by mid-February.

We're not demanding to have it in the middle of the second month of the year.

entailment

The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world.

The article found that the justice did not have a bitter bone in his body.

contradiction

I mastered the words portiere (goalkeeper), colpo di testa (header), and quattro minuti di ricupero (four minutes of injury time).

I do not know any Italian.

contradiction

The bones proved to be those of a male who was tall for his time (5 feet 9 inches).

The bones identified stand at 5 feet and 9 inches.

entailment

That argument which holds that the attempt to raise saving will end up lowering national income, because consumption will fall, and with it profits, output, and employment.

With more savings, innovation and creativity fall as well.

neutral

Lower down in the verbiage, Amazon concedes, Though we have tried hard to make this form easy to use, we know that it can be quite confusing the first time.

Amazon admits that the form is confusing to use.

entailment

The images in Touch of E v il have been boiled down so that all its ingredients are mashed together in the sludge.

Touch of Evil is made of just one ingredient.

contradiction

On the other hand, some states have passed new laws that treat juvenile criminals as responsible adults.

Juveniles will be tried as adults under new laws in some states.

entailment

Perhaps we are now seeing a new social phenomenon--trophy kids.

Social phenomenons continue to change, for better or worse.

neutral

Gopnik dismisses the cult of Picasso as just another kind of celebrity worship.

There is a cult of Picasso.

entailment

No ballots will be accepted after May 6, 1998.

Ballot votes will not be counted after May 6, 1998.

neutral

A few minutes later, Stephanie Trotter, a local NBC reporter, asked the candidates, Gentlemen, I'm curious.

Trotter wants to ask something of the candidates views.

neutral

We don't trust Madison Avenue to tell us the truth about fabric softener, so why are we letting it brainwash our children about drugs?

Madison Avenue is a street where fabric softeners are sold.

neutral

(Not surprisingly, the least dismissive big-name child-care expert is a woman, Penelope Leach.)

Penelope Leach is a man.

contradiction

In some countries, they'd be the dinner.

Something would be eaten in other countries.

entailment

(Gillette owns 67 percent of the U.S. razor market, and Campbell's has more than 75 percent of the U.S. soup market.)

Campbells has the majority of the U.S. market for soup.

entailment

Russian Israelis are not especially pro-Serb, but they definitely want close ties with Russia.

Russian Israelis want nothing more than to distance themselves from the country.

contradiction

Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.

Downturns in the economy serve as punishment for our transgressions.

contradiction

As it stands now, police officers, especially in urban areas, present more illegally obtained evidence than legally obtained evidence.

Most of the illegally obtained evidence relates to drug charges.

neutral

If you missed the link to the refresher on harassment law and its history, click .

Click this link to get a refresher on the harassment law and history.

entailment

But in anything as complicated as aviation or romance, there are infinite possibilities for debacle.

In fact, aviators are known romantics.

neutral

but made mother smoke it up just in case,

Things become higher quality when they are smoked.

neutral

The Vatican barred an American priest and nun from ministering to gays.

The priest and nun were attempting to convert gay people to heterosexuality.

neutral

They're interested in the clash of personalities.

People with strong personalities are having differences.

entailment

Then you can celebrate your license by getting high.

Then you can celebrate your license by eating a piece of cake.

contradiction

Slate editor, who suggested I do a piece.

I have received input about doing a piece.

entailment

As with Ron Brown, we'd like to know whether Ames was a monopolist or one of many sellers in a competitive marketplace.

Ron Brown was a monopolist.

neutral

It'll be a good thing for all of us if she finally gets into the habit of speaking for herself.

It will benefit everyone if she learns to speak for herself.

entailment

The boycott has been called off, but demands persist for full disclosure of records of Holocaust victims' assets, and there's little sign the Swiss will recover their pristine image any time soon.

Protestors stopped a boycott but still continued to tarnish the Swiss for non transparency.

entailment

(Click to learn more about the surprising Islamic origins of this argument and what Ludwig Wittgenstein had to say about it.)

If you click here, you'll learn about Islamic origins of this particular argument.

entailment

Who can blame him for lying to the gullible young?

He didn't lie about everything he said in the story.

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On The Simpsons , for example, Nixon has appeared in caricature at least 20 times (according to the Simpsons Archive Web site).

Presidents are never depicted on The Simpsons.

contradiction

What it does mean, though, is that commoditization does its work not by becoming a reality (which would entail ever-shrinking margins and stagnant stock prices) but by remaining a perpetually present threat.

Commoditization is a threat to the candy industry.

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