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Instead of an invisible hand pushing the economy toward full employment in some unspecified long run, we have the visible hand of the Fed pushing us toward its estimate of the noninflationary unemployment rate over the course of two or three years.
The Fed decides the employment rate that can be used in all economic models.
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An essay mourns feminists' sellout to Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton is a known feminist.
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After its early failure, Hubble now provides vital clues to the universe.
The notion that Hubble can lead to any significant data has been debunked.
contradiction
That problem was there at the beginning, when meritocracy appeared to have triumphed, whether at the University of California or Yale, and it is still with us.
Meritocracy didn't help solving the problem
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If Birdwhistell, in his travels, had been looking not for smiles but for smirks , Chatterbox strongly suspects he would have found lots of them on the smile-barren East Coast, especially in the vicinity of its prep schools and Ivy League universities . Here's a thought Summon up a mental image of Ali McGraw, the smirkiest performer in the history of the movies.
The author implores you to imagine Ali McGraw in place of Birdwhistell.
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The President further charmed Monica by fantasizing out loud how wonderful it would be if he had a son.
The President implied that he would like to sleep with Monica.
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To ring in the new year in 1997, he reportedly blew up a Cadillac.
He began 1997 by shooting up a Ford to celebrate.
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To remain a tool for continued desegregation and not just for excellence, the magnet schools had to maintain set-asides for black students.
Magnet schools destroyed set-asides for black students.
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They seem to think that junk food qualifies as their half of the groceries.
For their half of the groceries, they seem to think that junk food qualifies.
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We know, of course, whose dreams Tom is a character in.
Tom must be particularly beautiful or talented
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They thrust their fingers within an inch or two of priceless paintings, pointing out the obvious.
The paintings were worthless.
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For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew.
People question my Jewish pride.
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And critics who object that human life is sacred won't have a leg to stand on.
Critics know that human life is worthless and have much proof for it.
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Are we for affirmative action based on need, as I am, or based on race?
Affirmative action is solely based on need.
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You have definitely identified a problem for the '90s.
A problem has been identified for the '80s.
contradiction
They seemed to enjoy it, and it was extremely helpful to us.
It was harmful to us.
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is available only in the sense that the article doesn't accept the number that is available--thus using its own doubts to lend validity to themselves.
The article was written in a self validating manner.
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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.
Distancing from Clinton gives Gore a better chance to win.
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Anticipating the patient's regular tics, the researchers monitored how his grip on the sensor box changed as his arm twitched.
The sensor box twitched as the researchers gripped the patient's arm.
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Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents.
The television and mall do a better job than the purview of parents.
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They wouldn't do it with just any woman.
They would only do it with specific women.
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Mine's a full week old, and he's still acting like a drunk.
At a week old mine is acting like a drunk still.
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(He also turns into a hyena and an armadillo, species that are similarly not native to Transylvania.)
He can transform into animals that cannot be readily found in Transylvania.
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It would be more entertaining to consider mixed motives, mitigating circumstances, conflicting social pressures, complicated histories, and then find that in this unique situation you really should shoot the guy.
Considering multiple factors is more entertaining.
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The former POV might be thought of as Democratic, the latter Republican.
It isn't certain which party the former POV aligns with.
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You can make an argument that intelligence is an extremely unlikely, random, quirky event in terrestrial biology, or you can make the counter-argument that you can see intelligence coming down the pike from many millions of years in advance.
There is only one right answer for where intelligence comes from.
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But just between you and me, it's really bad.
It could be worse.
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He opens people up by agreeing with them.
He's agreeable nature makes it easy to open up to him.
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Denis Diderot has much to say about dress in the theater, and Honore de Balzac wrote an incisive treatise on neckties, among his many essays on elegance.
Honore de Balzac wrote essays about elegance.
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(Click to learn more about the surprising Islamic origins of this argument and what Ludwig Wittgenstein had to say about it.)
The argument came from Buddhist origins.
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Rupert Murdoch is rumored to be interested in buying it and turning it into a West Coast version of the New York Post . A circulation-hungry Willes vs. the rapacious That's just the kind of fight the American newspaper industry needs.
Rupert Murdoch has expressed that he has no interest in forming a New York Post type of news agency on the west coast.
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By reputation, Baldwins play the field, sleeping around Hollywood, then settling down with a beautiful woman.
The Baldwins have a interesting reputation around Hollywood, as it relates to their relationship tendencies with women.
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Of course, this decision raises plenty of questions of its own.
The decision has made things clear and answered every question.
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It is the cuisine equivalent of the landlord banging at your door.
A landlord banging at your door means you're late with the rent
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two or more of the above.
There are many options above to pick from.
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After 15 years of almost uninterrupted superlative performance--which not even the Katzenberg and Ovitz contretemps could seriously slow down--it's almost impossible to remember how close Disney was to being dismantled in the early 1980s.
Disney managed to rebound after the 1980s from their near dismantling.
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The theory that only a monopolist can price discriminate is standard textbook fare, and it's borne out by a lot of observations.
Monopolists are more likely to discriminate prices in some fields rather than others
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Getting the president re-elected is only one of the many, many accomplishments claimed by Morris, who plays both Boswell and Johnson in his memoirs.
Morris got the president re-elected.
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Staying on that show is like staying in an abusive marriage.
Thus I happily resigned a week ago.
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Any sure thing attracts too many hackneyed ideas, like Wolff's, and too much foolish money.
Wolff provides good ideas sometimes.
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Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.
A delivery from Amazon takes 3-7 days, sometimes even longer.
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You'll be able to cruise from article to review to column to department with a growing feeling that you're absolutely right about everything.
It will be more difficult to feel accurate as you climb the ladder.
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In some countries, they'd be the dinner.
They taste good.
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The problem, for Slate and other Internet sites, comes from having to charge for usage, when what they're selling is intellectual property with a flat production cost.
Charging for the use of intellectual property isn't always well received
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Nor is it the result of the benign policies of national governments, which are as callous and corrupt as ever.
The unhelpful policies of national governments cause great mistrust amongst it's citizens.
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A traditional direct mail solicitation usually contains legal reassurances that the solicitation is authorized (and the cost of postage makes an unauthorized mailing an expensive proposition), which some e-mail solicitations currently lack.
E-mail currently has the same legal reassurances as traditional direct mail.
contradiction
The New Yorker has a seven day window.
The New Yorker has a one year window to publish it's articles.
contradiction
Blame the good manners on Christmas spirit.
Christmas has little to do with the good manners.
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The Taliban is both a product of and a reaction to the civil war that has gripped Afghanistan since the demise of the Soviet-backed regime in 1992.
The Taliban is more active today than ever in Afghanistan.
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I can think of no better introduction to the Romantic era.
Sometimes introductions cannot be improved, they're just perfect
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Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his [Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe.
Yardley’s conclusions made perfect sense.
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Similarly, China Telecom has said that it will explore opportunities for strategic investments in [China's] telecommunications industry.
China Telecom will investigate tactical opportunities for investments in China's telecommunication industry.
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The book is no longer a guide to daily life and an antidote to the worries of its era (Molly O'Neill, the New York Times ). (The Joy of Cooking site plugs the book and gives its history.)
The book is crucial to daily living for many.
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No one should be angrier about this than Stephen Labaton, Jeff Gerth, and Safire's other colleagues at the Times who have patiently pursued the Clinton scandals in a careful way.
In a careful way, colleagues at the Times pursued the Clinton scandals.
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They would need to maintain complete silence about it.
They found the secret information in the safe behind the painting.
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Not all the way--he has not yet succeeded in building a durable majority on the court.
He finally succeeded in builing a durable majority on the court.
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See for yourself, but I think the message most people would get from both sources is Drinking isn't all bad, but eschew it anyway.
Drinking is okay to binge, consume with no restrictions.
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What will eventually arise is a confrontation of her own availability for intimacy, which she never has to examine as long as these men are unavailable.
She wants the men to be available to be intimate with her.
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In Rome, La Repubblica reported from New York on the ambivalence of President Clinton's attitude toward Hollywood, pointing out that a few hours after accusing it of promoting violence and having direct responsibility for massacres in American schools, he had gone to dinner in Beverly Hills with film industry friends who had poured millions of dollars into Democratic Party coffers.
A story was reported on President Clinton who had conflicting attitudes towards Hollywood but had film industry friends donate millions of dollars to the Democratic party.
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The game of payback never ends.
Payback is a game of revenge that never ends.
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Circulation has barely risen since World War II, and it's been falling for five years.
Circulation has risen quite high since World War II, and it's been rapidly climbing for five years.
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Another time I had to go and look after my brother Kenny in Buffalo.
I went to Buffalo to look after Kenny.
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He doesn't chew tobacco--I had to help him out a bit.
He chewed tobacco for nearly thirty years.
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Israelis sided with the Serbs against the Croats, who had been truly monstrous toward Jews during the war.
Israel was against the mistreatment of many Jews during the war.
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He sees a sign that says Chain-Up Area Next Exit and finds it hilariously suggestive.
She thought very little of the sign.
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6) The real outrage is that boxing officials won't be able to raise enough money to pay the exorbitant sums the boxers are demanding for a rematch.
Officials comment at this time that the rematch has a low chance of occurring.
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The RPH does not much elaborate on how he would balance the budget after his cuts.
His cuts are part of his aggressive new plan to reinvigorate the flailing economy.
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Newsweek 's cover story hails the success of the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Hubble Space Telescope is going to make us discover always new things for long time
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The allegation, reported in Newsweek , is that when Willey met alone with Clinton at the White House in 1993 to ask for a paying job, Clinton made a pass at her--a charge denied by the president's attorney.
In 1983, is when Wiley accused Clinton of making a pass towards her.
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The effect of these stories from the nether regions of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy has been like crying wolf.
The stories are true and should be alarming to most.
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Both are Democrats who converted to conservative Republicanism.
Both are now Independents.
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A Lexus ad in Car and Driver or Fortune is pretty well targeted at affluent people who like fancy cars.
Putting an ad for Lexus in Fortune magazine would miss its target of affluent people.
contradiction
The Czech expat's second novel written in French causes some reviewers to proclaim his decline.
His second novel is regarded as the beginning of his rise to the charts.
contradiction
As Van Buren knew, parties are inherently democratic, the most effective way of organizing otherwise powerless individuals.
Van Buren is considered a powerful individual.
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A long article in the same magazine enters the terrifying world of the yakuza , Japanese organized-crime syndicates.
The article was about dogs.
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Meanwhile, if you believe in the domestication of animals as pets, that's a personal choice.
Pets are domesticated animals.
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Also, studies showed that, at the lower, pasteurization doses, radiation does not degrade nutrients.
All nutrients were destroyed by any form of pasteurization.
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It's true that different pieces benefit from different treatment
Treatment affects each piece differently.
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But apparently no definitive number ...
The precise number is apparent to none.
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But they didn't make that case, at least to me.
They made a clear case according to them.
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The biography exposes the pioneer sexologist as a gay masochist who organized and filmed orgies.
The biography exposes the pioneer sexologist as straight.
contradiction
Josh Pons did not like this.
Josh thinks it could be worse.
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The sales pitch designed to support workers will also protect shirkers.
Shirkers will be fired during the sales pitch.
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The hard truth, I would argue, is that this way of seeing the world is itself distressingly soft.
I would win a debate about the hard truth of the world being soft.
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Conservatives, after all, have spent the last year crediting Clinton's polls to He has lucked into the best economy in history.
Conservatives think that Clinton didn't directly cause having the best economy in history
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Where is beauty?
Everything is beautiful
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For more than a month, Clinton's debauchery and deceit have consumed journalists' attention.
Clinton's behavior has led to much journalistic inquiry.
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The National Basketball Association fined Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman $50,000 for insulting Mormons.
Dennis Rodman was fined $75,000 for bad mouthing Baptists.
contradiction
The great historical novels are always about contemporary consciousness.
Contemporary consciousness is an unusual topic for historical books.
contradiction
Boaz's model for this is the Internet.
Boaz has a model.
entailment
Flytrap also bears some responsibility for Washington's paralysis.
Flytrap will receive part of the blame for Washington's condition.
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And manufactured exports, initially based on low wages, are the only route we know for rapid economic development.
The only route for rapid economic development is based on low wages.
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After the injection they--honestly--seem rather depressed.
The medication from the inoculation was what was making them sad.
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A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice.
According to Time, the electric car movement is bigger than ever.
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Monica gets out first and opens the courthouse door.
There is a line of people waiting to go out.
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The University of Chicago has chosen a new president--but the debate over the ongoing shake-up at the school continues.
The University of Chicago democratically chose their new president.
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The Los Angeles Times told readers that the real news was the wall-to-wall press throng at the news conference.
The Los Angeles Times stated that fake news was at the news conference.
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We Americans mocked the militarism of German youth in the '30s, and now we're embracing Louis Caldera's ballistic schemes.
Caldera's plans included making everyone subject to military service.
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But equally strange was Doris Day, whose many movie outfits were conceived as musical-comedy costumes--bright, smooth, and jaunty, every blue and yellow clear and true, every neat hat perfectly matching, and every outline eternally crisp--even if she was supposed to be working in an office or teaching in a journalism school.
Doris Day preferred a subtle, subdued wardrobe to that of flashy.
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But why should Bradley shut up about the Clinton-Gore fund-raising scandal?
Should Bradley shut up about the scandal?
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