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--DeParle refers to Milwaukee's growing homeless shelter population, but doesn't give any figures on how much it's growing.
Deparle wasn't sure how fast the homeless population was growing.
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For the remaining puzzle is why the world provided LTCM with so much money to lose.
LTCM lost all the money the world gave them.
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But his heart is clearly with the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-tzu, who Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.
Lao-tzu was an engineer.
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And a great marketing Buy my books, because they're good for your daughter.
It’s not bad for your daughter.
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In a poll of 773 chief executives in 23 countries, consultants Watson Wyatt Worldwide found that most think productivity peaks around age 43.
Less than 20 countries agreed about productivity peaking around 43 years old.
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Newt Gingrich said that if the evidence holds up, the United States should consider a military strike against Iran.
General Wesley Clark fully supported the proposed strike on Iran.
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For all I know, some hockey fans go for the fights.
Fights are prohibited at hockey games.
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good after-school programs, lots of computers, smaller classes, and higher standards for teachers.
Not every school has an after school program.
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According to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph , The decision is cause for collective rejoicing among those who deplore Mr. Fayed's malevolent influence on our public affairs, particularly his disgraceful claim that the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales.
Mr. Fayed has no influence over public affairs.
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There was much grumbling in the ranks about this question but, if imperfect, it does rest on a solid theoretical foundation.
Those whiners, all men, are unhappy about the question, however imperfect it may be.
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The White House packed its millennium party with tech leaders.
To the disappointment of the tech leaders there was no Millennium party at the White House.
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His Bose 901 loudspeakers, the company's premium line for 30 years, have nine speaker cones, positioned all over the cabinet, so that the sound bounces around your room just like in a concert hall.
The Bose speakers do not have surround sound.
contradiction
Not so the New York Times , which editorially called for legislation to overturn the ruling.
The controversial ruling was noticeably absent from the pages of the often omniscient New York Times.
contradiction
Paul's statement that this is simple and reasonable does not make it right.
It's not enough to say that something is reasonable to justify it
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In the Times of London Monday, Clarke was quoted as saying, There is no truth whatsoever in the allegations that the Sunday Mirror are making against me, and they are very hurtful.
Clarke agreed with everything the Sunday Mirror claimed against him.
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But as Felix Frankfurter wrote in dissent, this distinction is silly.
Frankfurter didn't want to write in dissent at first.
neutral
Glimpses into his character do not add up to a full motivation for Bunt's aimlessness (Thomas Keneally, the New York Times Book Review ).
Bunt's haphazard actions aren't justified by his nature
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3) The study is flawed because it assumes the participants correctly recalled their dietary habits.
The participants in study recalled every aspect of their dietary habits.
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Also shown are a lot of stars--24 or 25, one of them could be a dust speck--symbolizing something to do with the sky or night time or celebrities or spaceships or celebrities in spaceships like in Star Wars . There are a helmet and some ferns or laurel, some kind of leaves, and a Latin motto, Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto, which, if I remember my Latin, means The Best People in This State Don't Have To Obey the Traffic Laws.
The Star Wars franchise owns every star.
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(Gillette owns 67 percent of the U.S. razor market, and Campbell's has more than 75 percent of the U.S. soup market.)
Campbell's most popular soup is Chicken Noodle.
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Though this version of libertarianism seems to flirt with anarchism, Boaz isn't worried about disarray.
Libertarianism is unassociated with anarchism as a mixture.
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Government-mandated integration is wrong, he writes, because any endorsement of racial preferences is immoral.
The writer believes it's unjust for the government to force integration, because it endorses racial preference.
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But over the course of a generation, activists and bureaucrats have manufactured a single race out of a diverse mass of several million people whose origins can be traced to dozens of countries.
A diverse mass led a single race to be manufactured from it.
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It said, Such behavior ranges from demanding sex from co-workers to forcing female office staff to serve tea or to clean the workplace.
Coworkers sometimes demean female collogues.
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The preceding images are not from Beyond Impressionism (online reproduction of art from the Degas exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is forbidden.
You cannot copy art from the Degas exhibit.
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The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer.
Neither film received a great reception from movie critics.
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Now on a Tripod home page, the site itself claims to have been hit only 1,110 times since December 1998.
The site claims it has been hit a little over 1000 times since December 1998.
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Greider wants to change the tax incentives and subsidies for private enterprise by rewarding firms that fostered greater employment and penalizing those that did the opposite.
Greider has a plan to increase employment by offering companies incentives.
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Many of the qualities attributed to Clinton's women also describe his mother, Virginia Kelley.
Clinton looks for his women to have the qualities of his mother.
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Apparently there are enough 18-year-old book buyers in the first flush of marijuana to keep Hunter in tequila and narcotics for the rest of his life.
If there were less book buyers, Hunter would definitely leave Tequila and narcotics.
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White House aide Sidney Blumenthal is in the hot seat for testifying that he never mentioned President Clinton's stalker description of Monica Lewinsky to reporters.
Sidney Blumenthal lied to reporters.
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And revelations about the agency's Cold War malfeasance have damaged its prestige.
The revelations about the Cold War's malfeasance have improved it's prestige.
contradiction
AOL countered that Microsoft had already tried and failed to launch a proprietary online service.
AOL does not think that they could launch a proprietary service because of what Microsoft attempted.
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But I made a grave error, just a bad mistake on my part.
The person made no mistakes.
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Greider wants to change the tax incentives and subsidies for private enterprise by rewarding firms that fostered greater employment and penalizing those that did the opposite.
Companies that are given incentives are ones that lay people off regularly.
contradiction
(So, while she was dragged into the scandal against her will, it was her own loquaciousness that made the dragging possible.)
Her silence was a clear indication that she welcomed the scandal, which would propel her career, with open arms.
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But the more important question How many teen-age girls are getting pregnant in the first place?
In the future is going to be more common to see teen-age girls getting pregnant
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Investors can decide not only that Microsoft owes its success to the abuse of monopoly power, and not only that the courts will strip the company of this ability, but that Microsoft doesn't know any other way to survive.
Investors decided that success at Microsoft was owed to the abuse of monopoly power, and the courts stripped this ability of the company, and that Microsoft did know other ways to survive.
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A recent article in Science claimed to rebut Noam Chomsky's theory that our capacity for language is hard-wired in a particular--and uniquely human--module of the brain.
Noam Chomsky is a famous scientist.
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First, it loses sales of Windows 95.
Windows 95's sales will increase.
contradiction
Sportscaster Marv Albert denied charges that he had assaulted and sodomized a female acquaintance.
Marv Albert was accused of a sexual crime
entailment
PBS's Nova is offering lots of bang-'em-up footage in its two-part series , ESCAPE!
The PBS Nova was so small that it only had one part.
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The result is a vivid picture showing that the strong bonds that developed in those fabled neighborhoods of yore were kindled by conditions that we might find discomforting today--fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty.
Comforting today are vivid pictures of fear of authority, lack of choice, and poverty.
contradiction
One much-discussed cybertrend is especially relevant the scenario in which various data brokers offer a Daily Me, a batch of articles tailored to your tastes, cheaply gleaned from all over the Web.
Daily Me finds articles in newspapers.
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According to the actress, they couldn't.
They did and succeeded according to the actress.
contradiction
Some weeks before, Nash had declined a University of Chicago offer of an endowed chair on the grounds that he was scheduled to become the emperor of Antarctica.
Nash was going to be the emperor of Japan.
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La Repubblica of Rome reported Wednesday that the singer Michael Jackson has been fined 4 million lire (around $2,200) for plagiarism.
Rome announced Wednesday that Jackson had been acquitted.
contradiction
Someone, maybe a family counselor, needs to deal with the alienation the youngster feels and the hostility harbored by your husband.
Their husband feels a lot of love from the family.
contradiction
Doctors have given a generation of such children normal sex organs (i.e.
Such children get normal sex organs from doctors.
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The idea of a nation of stockholders is appealing but, in practice, the plants' old Soviet-style managers gained control.
The managers of the plant to control despite the appeal of the idea that was put forth..
entailment
I have never seen a trial before where you had factual disputes where you didn't have witnesses where you could watch their demeanor on the stand, listen to them, judge one witness vs. another witness (DeWine).
Witnesses would prefer not to appear in person during trials
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Is Clinton saying he didn't commit perjury because of the peculiar definition of sex in the Paula Jones suit, or is he saying he actually didn't have sex?
Clinton admitted to committing perjury, owing to the definition of sex in the Paula Jones suit.
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Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theory killed all these people.
Biskind's book was one of a kind unrelatable to any other books.
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(And where is a percontativus now that I need one?)
I need a percontativus.
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The sales pitch designed to support workers will also protect shirkers.
The author is one of the hard workers, which qualifies them to complain about shirkers.
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On the 10 th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe, we often refer to that event in shorthand as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The 10th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe, would be celebrated long into the night.
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The New England Journal of Medicine rushed the story to press.
The New England Journal of Medicine was slow and calculating when it came to building the story and printing it.
contradiction
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.
The wet wool smell is from the diesel.
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I particularly enjoyed your colored sky; a nice choice, blue, popular, everybody likes that blue.
You should have chosen a more popular color for the sky.
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Fried chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken.
The chicken is baked.
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Our failure to embrace a lackluster technical fix from Al Gore and his Web cronies.
Al Gore thought that his technical fix was brilliant.
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Afterward, Gordon thanked Earnhardt for teaching him all his tricks.
Gordon blamed Earnhardt for teaching him the wrong things.
contradiction
Finally, a sister is getting to go to the ball, says Newsweek 's Veronica Chambers.
The sister enjoys fancy events and dancing.
entailment
Weird Ted receives The New Yorker , New York Review of Books , and Los Angeles Times in prison and spends his rare recreation time with fellow bombers Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef.
Three bombers are in prison and spend time with one another during recreation breaks.
entailment
Pundit Central, for one, is worried that peppy, likable Monica might try to take its job.
A grinch of a woman obtaining a position is cause for worry.
contradiction
It was in the Yale Law Library, after all, that he first put the moves on Hillary Rodham.
Hillary Rodham failed to resists the moves he put on her that first time in the Yale Law Library.
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Not all the time-wasters in the Pentagon are civilians.
All the military personnel in the Pentagon is very effective and industrious
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Right now there is nothing approaching an international regime for keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists.
Nothing is stopping terrorists from having weapons at the moment.
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is for the peacekeeping mission to extend its mandate beyond the deadline by which U.S. forces are supposed to pull out.
The peacekeeping mission has extended it's mandate beyond the deadline for the U.S. Forces
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Newsweek berates NATO for its obfuscation of civilian casualties.
Newsweek praises NATO's efforts.
contradiction
The Jerusalem Post pointed to a novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel (see International Papers for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse.
Michael Kelly asked his readers why they care about the festival aboutu Camelot and The Kennedy Curse so much.
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O'Connor's desire for a baseball-free Good Friday, on the other hand, is surely heartfelt.
O'Connor is a staunchly religious person.
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It is a play with clear imperfections, such as an excessively shrill third act.
The play is objectively perfect to the author.
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The formula was most directly a gift to the options traders around the world, which is not a group that usually inspires charitable acts.
Options trades said thank you for the formula they received as a gift.
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Clinton has the ability to sustain that perception despite the test ban's defeat.
The test ban's defeat propelled Clinton to keep pursuing the matter until he exhausted all of his resources.
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His philosophy might have prepared him for his own death
He was probably made ready to pass away because of his ideology.
entailment
The sunny We nailed the terrorists.
We destroyed the terrorists.
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Performance artist Karen Finley reprises her 1990 show--she spread chocolate over her naked body--which made her the poster girl for right-wing denunciations of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Republicans criticized the National Endowment for the Arts due to Karen Finley's performance.
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The Washington Post called him everyone's favorite Arab moderate.
The Washington Post called him an Arab liberal.
contradiction
Half of them die within five years of diagnosis.
Most of them die within a year of diagnosis.
contradiction
In practice, they tend to make wild claims about the former and ignore the latter.
Their claims are unbiased and about the former and the latter
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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 teachers are the most reliable judges of their own progress
contradiction
And I said, 'Where does Jesse Helms get off saying all these mean things about me?
The things Jesse Helms said about me were deserved.
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In 1992, only 1,070 abortions were performed after the 25 th week.
1,070 abortions took place before the 25th week, in 1992.
contradiction
This is the amount on the check the new owner writes.
The owner writes the amount on a line inside the check.
entailment
Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.
The woman is a grandmother in a mental institution.
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They call him ruthless, bombastic, in-your-face, an aggressive hardliner, a bulldog, and a hit man.
He was a very harsh and aggressive man.
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Issue 3, the viability of the long-suffering tobacco bill, confounds everyone.
The tobacco bill isn't straightforward
entailment
Does Boston Tea Party ring any bells?
This should remind you of the Boston Tea Party.
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Thus, the number of passive vs. active investors will always fluctuate around an equilibrium.
The number of passive vs. active investors shift around an equilibrium.
entailment
This was a note K used to strike a lot in the 1980s, and he's glad he doesn't have to strike it anymore.
K is glad to strike that note many times.
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PinochetAid concert.
The concert will be loud.
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Obviously, the institutional structure of the U. S. government had everything to do with the spread of the postal network.
The spread of the postal network was largely attributed to the structure of US government.
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Christopher is precisely the sort of mobster who turns government witness at the thought of real jail time.
Christopher does not want to spend time in jail.
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And so a comedian's success creates his failure.
Success went to the comedian's head.
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Consider Only 13 nations participated in 1896, but there were 172 in 1992.
In 1992 there were 172 nations that participated compared to 13 nations in 1896.
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I am fortunate enough to have two mothers-in- one who gave birth to my wonderful husband and one who is married to his father.
She had a poor outlook on her marriage.
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Videotape of her answers will be shown to the Arkansas Whitewater grand jury, which will disband May 7. Pundits played up the tension between Starr and the first lady (since she recently called him a politically motivated prosecutor who is allied with the right-wing opponents of my husband) and debated whether he will indict her.
The First Lady and Starr’s relationship was made to seem worse by the reporters.
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But any hope that Democrats can capitalize on Starr's non-North performance dissolves immediately after lunch, when Democratic committee counsel Abbe Lowell questions Starr.
Abbe Lowell served on the Democratic committee.
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Paul shrinks from this view.
Paul looks away from this view.
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