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He's obviously spending too much time online.
He is spending too much time online.
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After all, it's only a movie.
this isn't a movie.
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It gets better when they stop to chat.
It can even help if someone takes the time to stop and say the don't have time to chat.
neutral
It's the most prestigious, appearing as it does in the premier book review in the country.
It makes an appearance in a book review.
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The new law also makes it easier for broadcasters to renew their licenses, and requires TV manufacturers to install parent-friendly V-chips.
The new law requires TV manfacturers to install V-chips.
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Malcolm Gladwell's exegesis, however, suggests that we are to vote for the most impressive display of empty virtuosity.
Malcolm Gladwell wrote 36 books.
neutral
How much further could the ball have gone?
The ball has gone far.
neutral
Adequately warned, why do people persist in sucking cancer-causing tars into their lungs?
The most damaging tobacco product is cigarettes.
neutral
As federal employees, postal workers are not allowed to strike and, if a negotiated settlement cannot be reached, contractual disputes are resolved by binding arbitration.
Postal workers are encouraged by the government to go on strike often.
contradiction
The daughter's boyfriend, Dominic, is a cynic who lives only for himself.
The parents are skeptical of Dominic.
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Similarly, Bush boasts that he's a uniter, not a divider, while the RLC complains that Forbes, by criticizing Dole in 1996, caused fighting within the Republican Party that was divisive and not inclusive.
Bush boasts that he is a divider.
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Individuals' claims to their wealth and income must of course be balanced by the need to finance governmental activities, no matter how few and inconsequential they may be.
Not all individuals want to support government programs.
neutral
There is an obvious opportunity here for a bonanza of international conferences to study the need for worldwide treaties to set up global commissions to come up with transnational standards for ...
International governing bodies and commissions seem to do overcomplicate matters by making more governing bodies and commissions..
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With a little luck, by the time I contract a fatal disease, I'll already be dead.
With a little luck, by the time they contract a fatal disease, they'll have the immunity to overcome it.
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In the column he wrote the day after Harold Washington became the first black person elected mayor of Chicago, Royko began with one of his inimitable openings, So I told Uncle Don't worry, Harold Washington doesn't want to marry your sister.
Harold Washington was the mayor of Chicago.
entailment
His technique is too methodical and slow, she said.
His technique is too inconsistent and fast, she said.
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Moreover, even if the '80s dramatized Soviet economic incompetence because the U.S. economy was growing so rapidly, this is no reason for the Soviet empire to implode in the way that it did.
The U.S. economy was growing in the 80s.
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He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications.
It was about the law, not ethics and morals.
entailment
(And where is a percontativus now that I need one?)
Someone is in need of an object.
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Greenberg's survey, for example, asks people who voted for Clinton to pick from a list of possible reasons why they did so.
Clinton's charisma was the most cited reason why people voted for him.
neutral
Talk about when you became out of touch with her and maybe why.
Lack of effort is how someone becomes out of touch.
neutral
While still in the death chamber, the inspector had snapped a few quick pictures of himself sitting in the chair, and he is planning to use them as Christmas cards this year.
The inspector did not snap any pictures for his Christmas cards because he had already sent out the cards.
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, Goodwin) argue that Roosevelt spawned the civil rights and feminist movements by putting everyone to work regardless of race or gender.
Roosevelt was re-elected because of how popular he was among women voters.
neutral
The second reference to bumfuzzled was in History of the Life of Rev.
Bumfuzzled is not referenced in the History of the Life of Rev.
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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.
After viewing the report, readers were better informed.
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So who wins Round Two?
There is a future Round Three of the event.
neutral
Atom Egoyan, the Canadian director ( Exotica , 1994; The Sweet Hereafter , 1997) who adapted and directed the book, does tender, morbidly evocative work.
Atom Egoyan is not Canadian.
contradiction
They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating.
They refuse to take politics seriously.
contradiction
This seems like increasing liberalism, but it's only encroaching commerce, less a commitment to free speech than a determination to sell paper plates, cups, and napkins for kicky Fourth of July fun.
Paper plates and napkins are always free.
contradiction
You've got to look in the mirror every morning and ask 'What am I organizing for ?'
This is one of three key habits developed by a well-known life coach that are meant to help you achieve success.
neutral
The sportswriters were tapping on their laptops.
The sportswriters were tapping away at their typewriters.
contradiction
We know, of course, whose dreams Tom is a character in.
As a character, Tom never appears in dreams.
contradiction
Also, Time reports that the IRS fails to collect $150 billion a year in owed taxes, largely because its ancient computer system is too crude to catch frauds.
the IRS doesn't collect a large sum of owed taxed due to dilapidated technology.
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process one out of every four checks in the country.
One out of every four checks need to be processed in the country.
entailment
An article celebrates the return to favor of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose sharp tongue is nearly as famous as his music (he disses Wynton Marsalis as a talented high-school trumpet player).
Keith Jarrett is still being shunned by the media and the music scene at large.
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But when he became impotent, it took his identity away.
His potency had left him very suddenly, rather than gradually.
neutral
So if the mechanics of affirmative action in the military mimic those of affirmative action in higher education, why hasn't the military taken the same flak?
Higher education's and the military's affirmative action processes work completely differently.
contradiction
Finally, a sister is getting to go to the ball, says Newsweek 's Veronica Chambers.
Veronica Chambers works for Newsweek.
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, and appeared here in 1977.
Other groups have discovered this prior to its arrival in this area in 1977.
neutral
There would still be an Ahab syndrome.
Ahab syndrome does not exist.
contradiction
In the 1990s, northern fiscal conservatives such as Anderson, Tsongas, and Rudman have backed free-trade agreements such as NAFTA.
NAFTA existed prior to the year 2000.
entailment
Another online pollster, Harris Interactive, is using its Harris Poll Online to learn about the public's views on the 2000 election.
Harris Interactive is a polling company that collects data on elections.
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TUMORS AND IS A TERMINAL ILLNESS.
You will have this disease with tumors until death.
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I have it on good authority that the main reason that Monica hasn't taken a job or even done volunteer work during her ordeal is that she is rightfully fearful that her co-workers would immediately sell her out to the tabloids.
Monica can't take a job because her co-workers would expose her to tabloids because of her ordeal.
entailment
If Darth Vader had built C-3PO as a young man, how come he never paid much attention to him in the other movies--and vice versa?
Vader's injuries were so severe, they affected his memory.
neutral
But are the jocks serving Bradley well?
It's impossible to question the role that the jocks are playing in their support of Bradley.
contradiction
Defense So could we.
There was no defense.
contradiction
[W]itty popular science that you enjoy ...
You like Bill Nye the Science Guy.
neutral
The Easter spirit is A week after Time 's heaven cover story, Newsweek and U.S.
The Easter bunny is mentioned in the article about the spirit of Easter.
neutral
The incremental reforms that traditionalists favor to put the system's books in long-term balance all assume that the current trust fund balances, held in the form of Treasury bonds, are really being compounded and preserved.
The books are balanced.
contradiction
In addition, any effects of the winner's curse are offset by the fact that losing bidders become winning sellers when they re-auction products.
Over seventy percent of losing bidders end up re-auctioning and selling something.
neutral
Cold Warriors like Kissinger hardly argued that the Cuban Missile Crisis ended Soviet credibility.
The Cuban Missile Crisis troubled many Soviet leaders.
neutral
They are too easy a target.
No one is being assessed.
contradiction
He uses it even more than bona fide Christian-right pols do, as Fred Barnes points out, in order to allay suspicions that he may be moderate or indifferent on social issues.
Political theater is not important for the user.
contradiction
An unmarried dependent student qualifies before age 23, as does any adult child who acquired a physical or mental disability before age 21;
Dependent students can qualify at later ages than disabled adult children.
entailment
Whites still outearn blacks, black unemployment is twice the rate of white unemployment, and 13 percent of black men are disenfranchised because of felony convictions.
Blacks are twice as likely to be unemployed as Whites.
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This suppression is an outrage, but our policy must be more sophisticated than mere indignation.
Their policy sought to be more than just indignant.
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That's the only thing that'll overcome the meat-grinding aspects of national politics.
The meat-grinding of politics is inescapable.
contradiction
I thought to myself, 'This is incredible' ...It totally fell into our lap.
I was happy about the situation.
entailment
TV demos capture neither the exhilaration nor the fear, conveying instead the smug fatuity of some second-unit director who believes social change is for saps; DGA cards are for winners.
The second-unit director isn't a great advocate for social change.
entailment
I love the Native Americans.
I have nothing but bitterness and ill-will for the Native Americans.
contradiction
In its best colleges issue two years ago, U.S.
Harvard is always amongst the best colleges.
neutral
This has made her an attorney general without measurable accomplishment in law enforcement or prosecution.
The woman's law enforcement and prosecution experience is impressive.
contradiction
A few of the more bearable Hotel Bill, Cash Inn, China Pattern, The John Wilkes Toll Booth, Sheets for Treats.
The name Hotel Bill was originally conceived in the aftermath of the Clinton Whitewater scandal.
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2 pencils and a look of disdain.
A person is laughing.
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Candidates for citizenship must 1) be 18 or older; 2) have resided in the United States continuously for five years--or three years if married to a U.S. citizen--(short absences are OK); 3) demonstrate the ability to speak English, and a basic knowledge of American history and government (click here to see if you pass the test); and 4) be of good moral character.
to be considered, you must be 18+, lived in the US for a minimum of 5 years, speak English at a proper level, and have a strong moral fiber.
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That fragmented system without oversight had its deviance (not all doctors provided good care) and cost (the doctors drove up the bills).
the system worked perfectly, with or without oversight.
contradiction
Fearing his powers might be waning as he approached 30, Nash decided he would solve the most important unresolved problem in the Riemann Zeta conjecture.
Nash was afraid that he was losing his ability to solve problems.
entailment
Clinton's partisans have linked Starr to Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell, and other bogeymen.
Some Clinton partisans linked persons of interest to Starr, such as Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell, and others.
entailment
variety at the stand-ups, and pleasant trifles at the washstands.
There is no variety at the stand-ups and the trifles at the washstand are terrible.
contradiction
Newt Gingrich said that if the evidence holds up, the United States should consider a military strike against Iran.
United States and Iran are friendly allies.
contradiction
Let's take video games as an example.
Video games cannot be used as an example.
contradiction
Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community.
Personal pronouns are merely semantics.
neutral
It was force backing up diplomacy, insists a fuming Buchanan.
Buchanan took nearly half an hour to calm down and regain his composure.
neutral
And if there was a bit of buggery and whatnot going on up in the balcony, what of it?
Something may have occurred on the balcony.
entailment
That is the feeling that makes the children take out the broken tea pot and empty jam tin.
The children continue to hide the pot and tin.
contradiction
Dexter and Jones are also seeking financing for their piace de resistance , the King Dream Center, a $50-million interactive museum complete with virtual-reality games.
The King Dream Center will be the most expensive museum.
neutral
Cheap oral hydration, for example, has been studied and used to treat dehydration for diarrheal illness in developing countries.
Oral hydration can help diarrheal illness.
neutral
But if you want to create our very own Quebec, go ahead and pass an official English law.
The author invites you to make a language-based law, if you want.
entailment
And good afternoon to you, too, President Reagan.
President Reagan said "good afternoon" to somebody.
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In the latter, the director used farce not to lighten the drama but to darken it, so that the slapstick debacles seemed to spring from the hero's roiling unconscious.
Viewers loved what the director did in the movie.
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Both Germany and the United States classify the PKK as a terrorist organization .
Germany & the US trust the PKK thoroughly.
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