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Mount Marty administrators allegedly violated the due-process rights and academic freedom of an English professor, who had been trying to revive a local chapter of the AAUP, when they fired him a few months ago. | Mount Marty administrators are being looked at for violating the rights of a professor. | entailment |
Demonstrations on television never look right. | Demonstrations on tv give the viewer the wrong impression. | neutral |
The old western was almost always a tale of a courageous loner imposing order on lawlessness, as in the Wayne films and Shane (1953). | John Wayne is rememberd only for his roles in a couple of western movies. | contradiction |
We know, of course, whose dreams Tom is a character in. | There is no one that cares about Tom | contradiction |
It's not clear that Beatty is willing to do that. | Beatty is a risk taker. | neutral |
Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile. | The actors and playwrights would continue to remember the glory days of when shows were still allowed to take place in theaters. | neutral |
Since the 1991 cease-fire, U.N. inspectors have largely disarmed Saddam's nuclear, chemical, and biological arsenal, using random inspections and surveillance cameras to do their work. | U.N. inspectors used a combination of random inspections and surveillance cameras to help disarmed Saddam's weapons arsenal | entailment |
My kids after they graduate. | I have more than one kid. | entailment |
However, from my own experience, a newborn becomes a 12-month-old and then an 18-month-old rather quickly. | Kids develop very slowly. | contradiction |
Microsoft's critics point out that Windows has 90 percent of the OS market. | Those who are critical of Microsoft note their large market share over operating systems. | entailment |
Newsweek reports that JFK Jr. actively explored a Senate run before Hillary Clinton expressed interest. | Hillary Clinton wanted to be a US Senator from California. | contradiction |
Kenny needs to come back home to Texas. | He's on the fence about returning to the Lone Star State. | neutral |
But to this woman you are not replaceable at any price. | This woman is very smart and without a price. | neutral |
Historians may also question whether the Steunenberg affair, on its own, touched off, in Lukas' words, a struggle for the soul of America. | Historians agree that the Steunenberg affair, is what set off the struggle for the soul of America. | contradiction |
We always knew they had it in them. | They were able to pull through and show what they were made of in a positive light. | entailment |
Jane Friedman, Katrina van den Heuvel (her dress had literally no back; she looked fabbelus !), Salman (you must say Salman, I have heard, and how many writers have achieved first-name status in our time? | Katrina was stunning in her back-less dress. | entailment |
[W]itty popular science that you enjoy ... | Science is not the only enjoyable subject. | neutral |
Considering how hard it was for the extraordinary Frank McCourt to learn how to teach, one has to wonder whether individual teachers can really measure their own progress. | The own judgement of teachers' progress is disputable | entailment |
Not entirely unmarried men are seldom worth the trouble. | Sometimes, a man who is not entirely unmarried is a great catch. | neutral |
Whereas fashion photography--in the '50s as always--aimed to arouse active lust for new goods, the clothes in '50s movies were so thoroughly surreal as to look quite unfit for normal wear, even if they were waitresses' uniforms or girl-next-door dresses. | Fashion photography in the '50s aimed to make new goods surreal and unfit for normal wear. | contradiction |
He recognized a Christian duty to charity but was gripped by a fear that his charity would be wasted, thereby incriminating him in sin. | He paid no attention to his charity potentially being wasted. | contradiction |
It gets better when they stop to chat. | They brighten up the day if they chat. | entailment |
In the '50s, nobody wanted the movies to show all that except for the Italian ones, where the sexiest women all wore ill-fitting slips and had hairy armpits, too. | Italians found hairy armpits attractive in the 1950s. | entailment |
The media imply that Bush keeps refusing to say whether he has used cocaine. | The media say that Bush did drugs. | entailment |
No adult ever played with Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers. | Adults preferred things such as Matchbox cars or Legos. | neutral |
Few people these days believe that evil spirits cause illness, that the rain god causes rain, or that electric-light bulbs are mystical. | Illness and evil spirits have been portrayed to go hand in hand since the ancient texts of Egypt. | neutral |
A story says robot insects will soon be deployed by the military. | The military will soon send out robot insects according to the story. | entailment |
As American multinationals ship their production overseas, the likelihood of getting business to support an import tariff (which would now tax their own imports) becomes equally small. | There is a very small likelihood in getting an import tariff when American multinationals ship their production to other countries overseas. | entailment |
Boone claims that the album's purpose is to attract metal enthusiasts to Jesus, and that his get-up was a spoof of his old choirboy image. | Boone wanted to attract heavy metal fans to Jesus. | entailment |
Well, why read any type of fiction? | One must certainly read fiction to survive. | contradiction |
www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/, where you click No-Frames , which sends you to ... | The website is about traveling. | neutral |
Actually, three, if you count Jerry Falwell's Jew Town, but that's a scary place. | Jerry Falwell's place was peaceful. | contradiction |
Ian Fleming's James Bond was a snob and a lightweight. | James Bond, as written by Ian Fleming, was a weak version of the character. | entailment |
The United States responded by deploying U.S. naval forces in the region. | In response, the US withdrew all naval forces. | contradiction |
Also, the semiannual Home Design supplement insists that simplicity--incredibly expensive simplicity, that is--is chic. | In the fashion world, simplicity is much better than excessiveness. | neutral |
Rain will fall from Idaho to Georgia. | It will be clear skies and dry conditions from Idaho to Georgia. | contradiction |
The report expresses shock at the flagrant illegality of the expenditures. | The report condemns people's approval of the expenditures undertaken. | neutral |
We received a beautiful blanket from some out-of-town friends whom we see about once a year. | Our out-of-town friends gave us a beautiful blanket at one of our weekly hangouts. | contradiction |
So if we really want to pull every possible moral out of our story, we should think about the other people whose interests are at stake when you decide to buy a house. | The author says to ignore other people's interests when buying a house. | contradiction |
Springer's excuses are halfhearted (not to mention contradictory--it's not consistent to say that television doesn't create values, then lecture your audience about values). | Values are created by television audiences who lecture at hosts. | contradiction |
His proposal introduces prescription drug coverage and eliminates payment for preventive services but aims to cut costs by stoking price competition among HMOs and requiring patients to chip in for some services. | This policy would be the direct cause of a shortage of prescription drugs | contradiction |
80 HK for a super-value meal and $6 HK for each Snoopy toy McDonald's sells. | McDonald's sells a Spongebob toy for $9 HK. | contradiction |
An article chronicles the aborted return of offbeat television. | The article discussed the emergent return of offbeat television. | contradiction |
But we also may have missed a couple of more fundamental truths about the Web. | Some internet truths were lost on us. | entailment |
Republican fund-raising hypocrisy 1) The Washington | The Washington is a clear example of the hypocrisy of the Republicans. | neutral |
Crucial information is delayed and denied, which brings us back to the motif of Juneteenth, the day when slaves found out they'd been free for two and a half years. | Juneteenth marks the freeing of all slaves. | neutral |
Ianni writes, Johnson essentially worked as a middleman for the Italian syndicate. | Ianni wrote a biography about Johnson. | neutral |
Henry liked flowers that could make a lady squeal. | Henry's favorite flower is the rose. | neutral |
One answer is that there is no honor among thieves--that the oligarchs are caught in a classic prisoners' dilemma, in which it is in the collective interest of the group that everyone pay some taxes, but in the individual interest of each oligarch to free-ride on the others. | The oligarchs are from Russia. | 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. | If you work at the post office, you can go on strike. | contradiction |
Suppose, he says, that someone was willing to lend you a trillion dollars to invest as you like. | There are many things that can be done when investing trillions of dollars and imagining it is good. | entailment |
On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts. | The professor and the Kansas board have been at war for a long time. | neutral |
Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing. | Kaufman had few chances to get rid of the SNL call-in vote according to Man on the Moon. | contradiction |
This question generated, by far, a record number of similarlies all focused on Pat Buchanan's politics. | The question was focused on if Buchanan would buy a home in Nebraska. | contradiction |
The errors range from the trivial (misspelling the name of former Gov. | The trivial misspelling name of the former Gov. is an error. | entailment |
No wonder so many find this market-tested spiritualism so cool. | Spiritualism isn't stupid because it's been market-tested. | neutral |
And then he published a triumphal scoop. | This was not the first scoop he had published. | neutral |
In return, the vice president occasionally helps them. | The vice president accepts help but offers insults in return. | contradiction |
In fact, most of the spoken lines attributed to Saxton were made up, the real hearing was dully decorous and, as far as I could tell from the videotapes, the audience was politely catatonic. | Saxton gave an impactful, fact based, lively speech that had the audience eating out of his hand. | contradiction |
It seems no one can stand this, and whenever we encounter friends or relatives, they invariably ask personal questions to try to get each of us to speak ill of the other. | It seems that our family is trying to start conflict. | entailment |
The machines, in comparison, seem fuzzy. | The machines were compared to animals. | neutral |
And privacy--cloak of night, stocking mask, and any digital equivalent--is all that separates the thief from the law. | Thieves work without tools to keep privacy. | contradiction |
The Korbels and Simova continued to correspond after the war, and Simova met Albright briefly in Prague just after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. | Simova continued to correspond with the Korbels after 1989. | neutral |
But there are arguments to the contrary. | The only arguments that can be made will support the already existing argument. | contradiction |
Click Start , then Find , then Files or Folders , type *.dll , then hit Find Now . (Make sure your hard drive is selected in the drop-down list in Look in .) On my computer I found 1,230 .dll files. | There was a virus on my computer. | neutral |
He feels liberated but looks like a man hugging a slot machine. | The man looks funny to the author. | entailment |
) says herbal remedies can work--Saint Johnswort does cure some folks' mild depression--but herbs also have nasty side effects. | People taking Saint Johnswart get mild depression. | contradiction |
So all the money from the sales of the manufacturing operations, $3 billion, is going to a share buyback program, which is to say that instead of being used to create new wealth, it will simply be redistributed from the company to investors. | A large sum of money was made from the sales of the manufacturing process. | entailment |
Ned Devine is this year's stab at The Full Monty (1997), which made more than $100 million and even snagged an Oscar nomination. | Ned Devine was as successful as The Full Monty. | neutral |
There we find that in 1975, workers in Taiwan and South Korea received only 6 percent as much per hour as their counterparts in the United States; by 1995, the numbers were 34 percent and 43 percent, respectively. | Workers in Taiwan and South Korea received less than their counterparts in the United States. | entailment |
I wrote no such thing, and Arthur has never, to my knowledge, claimed any such thing. | Arthur has claimed such things. | neutral |
When agencies lose major accounts, they often fire nearly everyone involved with the account. | Agencies lose everyone involved with major accounts. | contradiction |
Nor does he believe in military conscription in wartime ([t]he libertarian believes that people will voluntarily defend a country worth defending). | He does not believe in the draft in wartime because he believes that people will volunteer to defend the country. | entailment |
The piece features what is sure to be a major element of any Bradley a surfeit of tired sports metaphors. | Tired sports metaphors are a feature of the piece. | entailment |
www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/, where you click No-Frames , which sends you to ... | Clcik No-Frames on www.voyageurs.com/nwvoyage/ and get sent to another page. | entailment |
Alternatively, the fuel and communications networks they will build can be used to support an invasion. | An invasion could be supported with the fuel and communications networks they will build. | entailment |
But what will Daimler get? | Someone knows for sure what Daimler will get. | contradiction |
High praise for The New Yorker writer's stories about disaffected youth. | The writer is really bad at her job. | contradiction |
You've seen this sort of picture People get drunk and drag skeletons out of closets, and the tension between the formal dinner party rituals and the truths that simmer beneath the surface give way to a Walpurgisnacht . The anti-patriarchal content is fairly routine, but you should see the movie anyway because the director, Thomas Vinterberg, is a great, hypersensitive filmmaker whose edgy, grainy, caught-on-the-fly camerawork seems to make the very celluloid shiver with rage. | The author praises Vinterberg for being aware of everything around him. | entailment |
To be sure, the Army's program insists, though more vaguely than people admit, that affirmative-action beneficiaries must meet the same minimum qualifications as their white counterparts. | An investigation has been launched at the Army's affirmative-action practices. | neutral |
This book is not a road map for improving the American economy. | The book does not include ways to help out the American economy in the long run. | entailment |
But still, in one degree or another the feeling described by Auden, of not wanting to be forgotten, must be nearly universal. | A good chunk of people doesn't care about being forgotten | neutral |
It's not that hard to imagine a similar message being sent home by someone investigating what happened to Tsingtao. | Similar messages are easy ti imagine. | entailment |
Avis' profits jumped 35 percent in the first six months of employee ownership, and the company remained profitable for the next decade. | Avis went out of business after being owned by employees | contradiction |
oh, I'm sorry--are we out of time? | The person knew they went over time. | neutral |
(Saint Johnswort makes your skin sensitive to sunlight.) | Your skin becomes sensitive to sunlight taking Saint Johnswort. | entailment |
Speaking of The third-place finisher, Forget Me Not , features an animated condom in a drawer. | The film Forget Me Not is about safe sex. | neutral |
Instead, I felt sluggish the entire next day. | I was so full of energy and felt great the entire day. | contradiction |
Multiple stories about it have appeared, for example, in major Czech newspapers. | The event had little media coverage anywhere. | contradiction |
You'd have to invoke your own gods for the requisite charm. | After calling on your gods you will then be shown the requirements for proceeding further towards what you desire. | neutral |
The tendency to prefer obscure, unproduced recordings seems like the latest version of the old folkie quest for the grail of authenticity. | Authentic folk fans prefer obscure tapes. | neutral |
All these guys just have to be worried. | All the guys are worried. | entailment |
An article argues that projected budget surpluses rest on the shaky assumption that Congress will maintain budget ceilings by slicing popular domestic programs. | It is assumed that congress will keep a budget ceiling by cutting funding of social security. | neutral |
And even with clean practices and technologies like steaming of meat (which hasn't been tested nearly as much), some food would still be contaminated. | Food can still be contaminated even with clean practices like meat steaming. | entailment |
There are periods in which the work fades into hermeticism; there are periods when it aspires to a lyric summing up, as in the four Seasons (1986), in which the shadow of the artist is projected onto a sequence of Johnsian montages. | The four Seasons (1986) received multiple awards. | neutral |
In January 1993, the Bush administration launched cruise missiles at Baghdad to force compliance. | The Bush administration engaged in peace talks with Baghdad first. | neutral |
If NBC wanted to clone its sitcoms, you think it could aim higher than Suddenly Susan and The Naked Truth , says USA Today 's Matt Roush. | Matt Roush feels that Suddenly Susan and The Naked truth aren't quality sitcoms. | entailment |
But let's get Does the diagnosis of sex addiction make sense? | Sex addiction can be diagnosed. | entailment |
The Blue Flower , by Penelope Fitzgerald (Houghton Mifflin). | Scholastic published The Blue Flower. | contradiction |
As one less-than-prescient ad exec put it in 1991 while labeling Intel's advertising efforts awfully stupid: Most people that buy computers don't even know that that chip is in there. | The ad exec commented negatively on the mental capabilities of both Intel and computer buyers. | entailment |
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