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The White House Web site's theme of the Supporting America's Families in Times of Distress. | The White House website received thousands of visitors every day. | neutral |
Also, while PointCast packages news and information as your screensaver, SlateCast TM will package acute witticisms about the news directly onto your voice-mail answering message--in your own voice--thereby completely eliminating the need to develop or even to express your own opinions. | PointCast has never made a screensaver. | contradiction |
Hong Kongers are increasingly restless about Chinese rule. | A small Hong Kong newspaper has recently run an article which is critical of Chinese rule. | neutral |
The copy After all she's done for you, doesn't mom deserve flowers for Mother's Day, and to be compared to a barnyard animal? | Mom didn't get anything for Mother's Day last year. | neutral |
I keep losing at their damn casinos. | I've lost money at casinos. | entailment |
He's in his own league. | He is under great scrutiny for his poor performance. | contradiction |
3 million for a 30-second spot) and banal products. | All ads are expensive. | neutral |
Leger's ideas about women are inseparable from his ideas about machinery. | Leger has no ideas because he had a lobotomy at a young age. | contradiction |
She says the future of cars is fuel-cell engines--they use hydrogen, and their only waste is water. | Fuel-cell engines use hydrogen and expel water. | entailment |
The University of Chicago has chosen a new president--but the debate over the ongoing shake-up at the school continues. | The debate is still ongoing at the University of Chicago. | entailment |
The media imply that Bush keeps refusing to say whether he has used cocaine. | The media is hinting at stories regarding Bush and his previous cocaine use. | entailment |
Until recently, their industry was illegal almost everywhere. | They manufacture braided fishing line. | neutral |
Just as it has for New Jersey Nets fans and Whitewater conspiracists and foot fetishists, the Web has also given birth to a community of weather fanatics. | No one is really interested in the weather anymore. | contradiction |
Likewise, if the presidency is worth $50 million and there are many potential candidates with essentially identical chances of winning, they'll keep entering the race until they've collectively spent at least $50 million. | People will spend at least $10 million on a presidential race if the presidency is valued at $10 million. | entailment |
Babies, especially preemies, are more relaxed, have better digestion, and are generally happier when they are massaged. | Massage has a positive effect on many babies. | entailment |
The House passed the partial-birth-abortion ban , as expected. | Not all forms of abortion is fully legal. | entailment |
Vouchers need to be worth enough to afford real avenues of escape. | No one is receiving or consider vouchers as a solution. | contradiction |
There isn't really anything on the other side. | The other side does not have much. | entailment |
Instead of watching TV, I made a fresh start by purchasing a newer version of Linux. | Linux releases new updates every 3 days. | neutral |
They could learn something--not much, perhaps, but something--from the lively, nasty online discussions they're missing. | Online discussions can be used as teaching instruments. | entailment |
During last month's State of the Union address, every member of Congress, Republican and Democratic, rose repeatedly to give Clinton standing ovations. | Clinton is not a president that speaks in front of Congress. | contradiction |
Stephen King dumped his longtime publisher, Viking, and is seeking more than $17 million for his new book. | Stephen King still works with the longtime publisher Viking. | contradiction |
Similarly, the early United States may have been not so much a country with a post office, as a post office that gave popular reality to a fledgling nation. | The post office helped the United States into a powerful nation. | neutral |
The WP makes you wonder about the quality of thought behind many of those anti-Microsoft lawsuits that came tumbling forth right after the antitrust trial judge's finding of facts. | There have been lawsuits filed that are against Microsoft. | entailment |
It's that even as a long-term thinker, he's thinking about the wrong things. | thinking about something for a long time can manifest whatever it is into your dreams. | neutral |
All this time, the land for the library has sat undisturbed, covered with tall weeds and empty buildings, its intended purpose marked only by a banner that has grown progressively more tattered. | The land for the library is very populated and busy with people everywhere. | contradiction |
Such a sudden collapse of so much mammary matter could possibly result in some kind of Hollywood black hole. | There was no mammary matter to collapse, and Hollywood would be seemingly safe. | contradiction |
4. Causality. | Connection. | entailment |
Now along comes PK to blame men. | The author doesn't think that PK has an opinion as to who is at fault. | contradiction |
Whites who never practiced discrimination are nonetheless beneficiaries of it. | Bob Smith Jr. is a good example of a white man who does not practice discrimination but still benefits from it. | neutral |
should not guide our activities in cyberspace. | Their activities in cyberspace typically involved visiting the same forums. | neutral |
On the other hand, Fish never claimed to be right. | Fish never claimed to be correct. | entailment |
McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest. | McLaren's followers never resorted to violence, and instead opted for peaceful protest. | contradiction |
And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige. | The agency was involved in the Cold War. | entailment |
I know that these are alleged bones, and emotional sentiments are whipped up by the prayers of the priests and the nuns. | Priests and nuns will say a prayer for the dead. | entailment |
Or you can download a new copy from www.microsoft.com/ie/.) | When you download a new copy, you need to prove you owned the old one. | neutral |
The Louis XV story reminds me of one of Ronald Reagan's favorites--about the Muslim philosopher who said that the king came to the throne with high taxes and departed with low revenue. | Ronald Reagan was a firm believer in not overtaxing the middle class. | neutral |
Why don't you refresh your recollection for a while, and we'll talk when I'm back. | The story held numerous falsehoods and unknowns. | entailment |
There were no pigs in pokes, no when pigs fly, no in a pig's ear, no Pigmeat Markham, no pork salad Annie, no Gadarene swine, no Piggly Wiggly, no E. B. White's Wilbur, no there in the wood the piggy-wig stood. | Pigmeat Markham wasn't the only one who wasn't there. | entailment |
There is little doubt about the pro-choice media's unquestioning acceptance of the faulty pro-choice statistics. | Pro-choice media accepts false statistics when it backs their beliefs. | entailment |
The production of services also roughly doubled--but there was little productivity improvement, and employment grew by 90 percent. | There were a lot of new emloyees. | entailment |
We egg on Dennis Rodman, watching him parade like a peacock and break down in tears on national TV. | The community frowns upon the actions of Dennis Rodman. | neutral |
Overpaid athletes, teams that abandon their cities, and absurd ticket prices (average NHL $40. | Compared to their U.S. counterparts, Canadian NHL teams are known for their fan loyalty. | neutral |
Who can blame him for lying to the gullible young? | The younger generation believe anything he says. | entailment |
4) If resemblance to Jesus were the only issue, why didn't Falwell say the Antichrist must be a carpenter? | The Antichrist was a carpenter. | contradiction |
And, oh, to know what a frolic is! | There is no question that the writer knows exactly what a frolic is. | contradiction |
Yes, our parents had many of the same sexual traumas we did but, no, we don't want to hear about them in detail. | Our parents have many stories to tell. | neutral |
Streams tumbling down from the snowy peaks of the Rockies form ... | There is no water in the Rockies. | contradiction |
Igave a lecture on the American economy in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month. | The author traveled to Israel over the last thirty days. | entailment |
Biblical overtones--the tale of Jacob and Laban--bubble up from Malamud's simplicity. | The tale of Jacob and Laban comes from the Bible. | entailment |
Kurds constitute only 10 percent of Iran's population; their culture and language are much closer to Iran's than they are to Turkey's or Iraq's; and Iranian governments have permitted them limited cultural expression, though no political autonomy. | The Kurds have absolute freedom in Iran. | contradiction |
In the United States in 1996, big organizations funded the general election sites that everyone used--ABC, the Washington Post , and the National Journal fathered PoliticsNow, and Time and CNN sired AllPolitics -- and most major papers and TV channels, notably the new MSNBC, had election pages. | The election sites cost millions of dollars to make. | neutral |
The key word is overall . The increase or decrease in any particular item not only does not, but cannot, produce inflation. | Inflation is produced by the increase or decrease of a particular item. | contradiction |
Lewinsky reportedly wore a provocative dress to attract the president's attention, and McDougal did a Madison Guaranty TV commercial in hot pants. | Lewinsky wanted to be sexually appealing to the president. | entailment |
To continue discriminating is to throw away an opportunity for unprecedented financial success. | Eliminating discrimination guarantees financial success. | neutral |
The key ingredient seems to be averageness. | The most important ingredient is averageness. | entailment |
The Torah's text has varied over the centuries, and when dealing with ELS, tiny variations can be ruinous. | The Torah's text has changed over time and tiny variations can be disastorous. | entailment |
I describe the Brave New World as a horror, and Huxley thought of it as that also. | Both Huxley and the speaker feel the same way about Brave New World. | entailment |
He then made a speech in September 1980 in which he laid out the quantities involved and the underlying assumptions. | He never spoke about the details. | contradiction |
In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post, under the headline U.S. | The South China Morning Post often published propaganda against the US. | neutral |
Leonardo's obsession with swirling water--which found scientific expression in the Codex | Leonardo had an obsession with swirling water. | entailment |
(If you want to see the original of the pose, you can cross the Mall to the National Gallery, where Jacques-Louis David's 1812 Napoleon in His Study hangs.) | No one knows where the original is located. | contradiction |
He doesn't chew tobacco--I had to help him out a bit. | The author knows something about chewing tobacco. | entailment |
According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century. | Max Weinreich is a Yiddish linguist. | entailment |
McCain : Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is. | McCain sees Theodore Roosevelt as his personal hero. | entailment |
These lawyers might make the case that even tobacco companies have rights, and that the public interest actually was served by getting these companies a better bargain. | The lawyers will use the defense that tobacco companies have rights. | entailment |
Le Monde 's editorial Sunday said the action might be terribly counterproductive because it won't change the minds of Serbs who believe Milosevic's propaganda, but it will appear pointlessly destructive of human lives to those who don't. | A majority of Serbs believe in Milosevic and his media statements. | neutral |
On the same day, another Albanian paper, iKoha Jonei , published some impressive statistics about corruption in the Albanian government. | The reporting by iKoha Jonei was not remarkable. | contradiction |
Sheppard, Time ). Skeptics renew old attacks on sociobiology's all-encompassing view of human nature. | Sociobiology is a field that has drawn criticism. | entailment |
Newsweek looks at how children deal with A child who has lost a parent feels helpless, even if he's a future King of England; abandoned, even in a palace with a million citizens wailing at the gates. | Royal grief can be endearing to the public. | neutral |
Before long, we can expect to hear retirement-averse conservatives making the rest of the fine arguments against term limits. | The conservatives have no opinion regarding term limits. | contradiction |
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. | Many have criticized the Pell Grant. | neutral |
Spun and spun and spun the president's denial for months without bothering to check if it was true. | They did not do their research on the President's denial on the topic. | entailment |
Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters. | Bill Clinton charmed the Boston residents with his quick wit and anecdotes. | neutral |
This would be unfair to the other candidates--and if done on television or radio, entirely illegal. | No candidate has done that on television or radio. | neutral |
The corrupting thing about compulsory voluntarism is that it preys on the high-minded to the benefit of the unscrupulous. | Compulsory voluntarism preys on the feeble-minded to benefit the unscrupulous. | contradiction |
If the critics were interested in remedying the lotteries, they'd have the states repeal their monopolies on these games and let the market compete away the excess profits. | Lotteries are not making a profit. | contradiction |
But I love it even more because it has saved me so much trouble. | They appreciate it because it saves them from inconveniences. | entailment |
There was a deeper The new ideas were immensely liberating, but at some point you can get too liberated. | The new ideas described unique ways in which people could live their lives. | neutral |
By then Gore will be campaigning seriously, distancing himself from Clinton, and running macho ads; Bradley will have defined his big ideas and endured the inevitable media backlash to his current rave notices; and the voters will actually be paying attention. | Gore and Bradley are not involved in politics. | contradiction |
But all that ended long ago. | it began months ago. | neutral |
As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies. | The American Shakespeare Company, set up by Sir Peter Hall, was located in London. | contradiction |
But Aaron hardly figures here and, of course, psychology isn't the point. | Aaron was the star of the show. | contradiction |
Even in a fetus, a fibroblast is as highly specialized and fully differentiated as a mammary cell. | Fibroblasts are only found in adult humans. | contradiction |
The example of loyalty and When he had just taken over as the chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, he hired a young staff economist named Ron Hoffman (brother of Dustin Hoffman). | The hiring of a staff economist was done so impartially and without bias of any sort. | contradiction |
In the 1990s, northern fiscal conservatives such as Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman have backed free-trade agreements such as NAFTA. | Tsongas and Anderson both represented southern states. | contradiction |
With negotiations at a stalemate and summer vacations removing the motivation for an immediate solution, both sides appear to be settling in. | Both sides are not willing to compromise for an immediate solution | neutral |
How important are these essays compared to SAT scores as a college determines acceptances, and are the essays fair assessments of a students' abilities? | Colleges do not utilize essays when considering student admission. | contradiction |
We anticipate accidents at stock car races. | No one foresees collisions possibly occurring at the races. | contradiction |
Statements from Gore, McCain, Bradley, and Bush indicate they favor holding off on any general privacy legislation to allow industry to self-regulate by posting privacy policies and developing guidelines to ensure that consumers understand how their personally identifying information will be used. | Politicians think it is a good idea for industry to try and self-regulate before legislation is passed. | entailment |
It's also hard to find anyone who knows Brinkley and doesn't worry about his obsession with fame. | Most people who know about Brinkley think he obsesses about fame. | entailment |
But just between you and me, it's really bad. | Between the two, the situation couldn't be better! | contradiction |
They won't be satisfied--and won't relax--until they've identified his flaws. | The man is flawless. | contradiction |
Time says Dolly the cloned sheep could be a fake. | Dolly was a bit larger than most other sheep. | neutral |
He paved the way for the Bronsons and Chuck Norrises and Seagals and Jean-Claude Van Dammes and all the other righteous slayers of post-midnight cable-movie-channel programming. | He didn't know who Chuck Norris and Jean-Claude Van Damme were. | contradiction |
The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web. | Some business school grads are financially focused rather than passion focused. | entailment |
Not only do thousands of economists agree on something, but what they agree on is the warm and cuddly idea that we should do more to protect the environment. | Thousands of economists believe the environment is worth protecting. | entailment |
If so, it seems to have worked. | It didn't work at all. | contradiction |
The WP reports that following a year of sensitive negotiations, the German government has finally agreed to spend $110 million to compensate 18,000 Jewish victims of the Nazis who are living in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. | The Jewish recipients received equal amounts of payment. | neutral |
I particularly enjoyed your colored sky; a nice choice, blue, popular, everybody likes that blue. | The sky is blue. | entailment |
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