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id_4400
On January 4, 1998, the city of Mitchelville recorded its lowest temperature since 1896. The temperature in Mitchelville on January 4 was 5 degrees Fahrenheit. Two days earlier, two inches of snow fell on the city, and this, too, was an 102-year-old record.
The temperature in Mitchelville has never reached 4 degrees Fahrenheit.
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id_4401
On Saturday 12 May at 09.30 the groundsman at Dithcote Cricket Club discovered that the wickets had been vandalized and that the turf had been dug up and removed. The afternoon match between teams drawn from the members of the Conservative Club and the Round Table had to be cancelled. By Sunday it was evident that weed...
Brian Agler is a known supporter of the policies of right-wing extremist groups.
neutral
id_4402
On Saturday 12 May at 09.30 the groundsman at Dithcote Cricket Club discovered that the wickets had been vandalized and that the turf had been dug up and removed. The afternoon match between teams drawn from the members of the Conservative Club and the Round Table had to be cancelled. By Sunday it was evident that weed...
The groundsman may have known the people who vandalized the cricket ground.
entailment
id_4403
On Saturday 12 May at 09.30 the groundsman at Dithcote Cricket Club discovered that the wickets had been vandalized and that the turf had been dug up and removed. The afternoon match between teams drawn from the members of the Conservative Club and the Round Table had to be cancelled. By Sunday it was evident that weed...
Had the game gone ahead on Saturday 12 May, Brian Agler would have opened the batting for the Conservative Club eleven.
contradiction
id_4404
On Saturday 12 May at 09.30 the groundsman at Dithcote Cricket Club discovered that the wickets had been vandalized and that the turf had been dug up and removed. The afternoon match between teams drawn from the members of the Conservative Club and the Round Table had to be cancelled. By Sunday it was evident that weed...
The vandals may have broken into the cricket ground.
entailment
id_4405
On Saturday 12 May at 09.30 the groundsman at Dithcote Cricket Club discovered that the wickets had been vandalized and that the turf had been dug up and removed. The afternoon match between teams drawn from the members of the Conservative Club and the Round Table had to be cancelled. By Sunday it was evident that weed...
The Conservative Party had blocked the recent campaign to make Dithcote a nuclear-free zone.
neutral
id_4406
On the day the Barton triplets are born, Jenna weighs more than Jason. Jason weighs less than Jasmine.
Of the three babies, Jasmine weighs the most.
neutral
id_4407
On the evening of 3 November a mother and daughter were found dead in their two-bedroom flat in Diswich. Both victims had suffocated and the police are treating the incident as suspicious. It is also known that: The victims were Mary Cauld, aged 24 years, and Sarah Cauld, aged 6 years. Mary Caulds father had recently b...
Mary Cauld could have killed her own daughter.
entailment
id_4408
On the evening of 3 November a mother and daughter were found dead in their two-bedroom flat in Diswich. Both victims had suffocated and the police are treating the incident as suspicious. It is also known that: The victims were Mary Cauld, aged 24 years, and Sarah Cauld, aged 6 years. Mary Caulds father had recently b...
Marys father was near the flat on 2 November.
neutral
id_4409
On the evening of 3 November a mother and daughter were found dead in their two-bedroom flat in Diswich. Both victims had suffocated and the police are treating the incident as suspicious. It is also known that: The victims were Mary Cauld, aged 24 years, and Sarah Cauld, aged 6 years. Mary Caulds father had recently b...
Sarah Cauld was a healthy child when she died.
contradiction
id_4410
On the evening of 3 November a mother and daughter were found dead in their two-bedroom flat in Diswich. Both victims had suffocated and the police are treating the incident as suspicious. It is also known that: The victims were Mary Cauld, aged 24 years, and Sarah Cauld, aged 6 years. Mary Caulds father had recently b...
Gary was the first person to find the two dead bodies.
neutral
id_4411
On the evening of 3 November a mother and daughter were found dead in their two-bedroom flat in Diswich. Both victims had suffocated and the police are treating the incident as suspicious. It is also known that: The victims were Mary Cauld, aged 24 years, and Sarah Cauld, aged 6 years. Mary Caulds father had recently b...
Gary Davison is a carrier of AIDS.
neutral
id_4412
On weekends, Mr. Sanchez spends many hours working in his vegetable and flower gardens. Mrs. Sanchez spends her free time reading and listening to classical music. Both Mr. Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez like to cook.
Mrs. Sanchez enjoys reading nineteenth-century novels.
neutral
id_4413
On weekends, Mr. Sanchez spends many hours working in his vegetable and flower gardens. Mrs. Sanchez spends her free time reading and listening to classical music. Both Mr. Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez like to cook.
Mr. Sanchez enjoys planting and growing vegetables.
entailment
id_4414
On weekends, Mr. Sanchez spends many hours working in his vegetable and flower gardens. Mrs. Sanchez spends her free time reading and listening to classical music. Both Mr. Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez like to cook.
Mr. Sanchez does not like classical music.
neutral
id_4415
On weekends, Mr. Sanchez spends many hours working in his vegetable and flower gardens. Mrs. Sanchez spends her free time reading and listening to classical music. Both Mr. Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez like to cook.
Mrs. Sanchez cooks the vegetables that Mr. Sanchez grows.
neutral
id_4416
One of the critical elements of performance management is coaching people to develop the skills that can make them achieve success and move up the corporate ladder. This development planning process is traditionally tied to an assessment of the individuals skills gaps assessed against specific competencies which the or...
Undergoing performance management is essential for moving up the corporate ladder.
neutral
id_4417
One of the critical elements of performance management is coaching people to develop the skills that can make them achieve success and move up the corporate ladder. This development planning process is traditionally tied to an assessment of the individuals skills gaps assessed against specific competencies which the or...
Employees' awareness of the competencies necessary for success will improve company performance.
neutral
id_4418
One of the critical elements of performance management is coaching people to develop the skills that can make them achieve success and move up the corporate ladder. This development planning process is traditionally tied to an assessment of the individuals skills gaps assessed against specific competencies which the or...
Both employees and company benefit from the process of performance management.
entailment
id_4419
One of the great paradoxes of entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs must develop the capacity to engage the urgent with the emergent. Routine pressures force us to allow the urgent to dominate us, quarterly reports, market share, and tangible return on investment become paramount in this paradox, emergent (strategic) ...
It is easy to lose sight of the strategic issues given the demands that immediate issues make.
entailment
id_4420
One of the great paradoxes of entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs must develop the capacity to engage the urgent with the emergent. Routine pressures force us to allow the urgent to dominate us, quarterly reports, market share, and tangible return on investment become paramount in this paradox, emergent (strategic) ...
The present tends to be governed by the immediate demands.
entailment
id_4421
One of the great paradoxes of entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs must develop the capacity to engage the urgent with the emergent. Routine pressures force us to allow the urgent to dominate us, quarterly reports, market share, and tangible return on investment become paramount in this paradox, emergent (strategic) ...
It is easier to spot an emergent trend than an urgent issue.
contradiction
id_4422
One of the great paradoxes of entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs must develop the capacity to engage the urgent with the emergent. Routine pressures force us to allow the urgent to dominate us, quarterly reports, market share, and tangible return on investment become paramount in this paradox, emergent (strategic) ...
It is easy to lose sight of the strategic issues given the demands that immediate issues make.
entailment
id_4423
One of the great paradoxes of entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs must develop the capacity to engage the urgent with the emergent. Routine pressures force us to allow the urgent to dominate us, quarterly reports, market share, and tangible return on investment become paramount in this paradox, emergent (strategic) ...
It is easier to spot an emergent trend than an urgent issue
contradiction
id_4424
One of the great paradoxes of entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs must develop the capacity to engage the urgent with the emergent. Routine pressures force us to allow the urgent to dominate us, quarterly reports, market share, and tangible return on investment become paramount in this paradox, emergent (strategic) ...
The present tends to be governed by the immediate demands.
entailment
id_4425
One of the most important measures of a countrys trading strength is the measurement of its net exports. Net exports are defined as exports less imports. It is important since the figure measures the net effect of a nations trade in goods and services vis-a-vis the world. In 1998, the countrys net exports were 7 percen...
In 1998, net exports were lower than in 2005.
neutral
id_4426
One of the most important measures of a countrys trading strength is the measurement of its net exports. Net exports are defined as exports less imports. It is important since the figure measures the net effect of a nations trade in goods and services vis-a-vis the world. In 1998, the countrys net exports were 7 percen...
If GDP was constant from 1998 to 2005, net exports were greater in 2005 than in 1998.
entailment
id_4427
One of the most important measures of a countrys trading strength is the measurement of its net exports. Net exports are defined as exports less imports. It is important since the figure measures the net effect of a nations trade in goods and services vis-a-vis the world. In 1998, the countrys net exports were 7 percen...
Exports were greater than imports in 2005, but not in 1998.
contradiction
id_4428
One of the most important measures of a countrys trading strength is the measurement of its net exports. Net exports are defined as exports less imports. It is important since the figure measures the net effect of a nations trade in goods and services vis-a-vis the world. In 1998, the countrys net exports were 7 percen...
Exports doubled from 1998 to 2005.
contradiction
id_4429
One of the most important measures of a countrys trading strength is the measurement of its net exports. Net exports are defined as exports less imports. It is important since the figure measures the net effect of a nations trade in goods and services vis-a-vis the world. In 1998, the countrys net exports were 7 percen...
Exports doubled from 1998 to 2005.
neutral
id_4430
One of the most important measures of a countrys trading strength is the measurement of its net exports. Net exports are defined as exports less imports. It is important since the figure measures the net effect of a nations trade in goods and services vis-a-vis the world. In 1998, the countrys net exports were 7 percen...
In 1998, net exports were lower than in 2005.
contradiction
id_4431
Online roommate finder: Toronto I have one room available in a large apartment located just off Queen and Bathurst in Toronto. The room is fully furnished with a double bed, desk, shelf and wardrobe. About us: Im Sasha! Im Canadian, and Ive been living in this apartment since I was a teenager. Im 23 and work in a resta...
Sasha does all the cleaning in the apartment.
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id_4432
Online roommate finder: Toronto I have one room available in a large apartment located just off Queen and Bathurst in Toronto. The room is fully furnished with a double bed, desk, shelf and wardrobe. About us: Im Sasha! Im Canadian, and Ive been living in this apartment since I was a teenager. Im 23 and work in a resta...
The room available has two beds.
contradiction
id_4433
Online roommate finder: Toronto I have one room available in a large apartment located just off Queen and Bathurst in Toronto. The room is fully furnished with a double bed, desk, shelf and wardrobe. About us: Im Sasha! Im Canadian, and Ive been living in this apartment since I was a teenager. Im 23 and work in a resta...
The Australian in Sashas apartment is a musician.
entailment
id_4434
Online roommate finder: Toronto I have one room available in a large apartment located just off Queen and Bathurst in Toronto. The room is fully furnished with a double bed, desk, shelf and wardrobe. About us: Im Sasha! Im Canadian, and Ive been living in this apartment since I was a teenager. Im 23 and work in a resta...
Sasha likes being in the open air.
entailment
id_4435
Online roommate finder: Toronto I have one room available in a large apartment located just off Queen and Bathurst in Toronto. The room is fully furnished with a double bed, desk, shelf and wardrobe. About us: Im Sasha! Im Canadian, and Ive been living in this apartment since I was a teenager. Im 23 and work in a resta...
The room available would be suitable for someone who likes to be quiet.
entailment
id_4436
Online roommate finder: Toronto I have one room available in a large apartment located just off Queen and Bathurst in Toronto. The room is fully furnished with a double bed, desk, shelf and wardrobe. About us: Im Sasha! Im Canadian, and Ive been living in this apartment since I was a teenager. Im 23 and work in a resta...
Sasha thinks her apartment is in the best part of Toronto.
neutral
id_4437
Online roommate finder: Toronto I have one room available in a large apartment located just off Queen and Bathurst in Toronto. The room is fully furnished with a double bed, desk, shelf and wardrobe. About us: Im Sasha! Im Canadian, and Ive been living in this apartment since I was a teenager. Im 23 and work in a resta...
Sasha has never had a roommate from Canada.
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id_4438
Only humans allowed On the internet, goes the old joke, nobody knows youre a dog. This is untrue, of course. There are many situations where internet users are required to prove that they are human-not because they might be dogs, but because they might be nefarious pieces of software trying to gain access to things. Th...
Members of Dr von Ahn's team try to break their own product.
contradiction
id_4439
Only humans allowed On the internet, goes the old joke, nobody knows youre a dog. This is untrue, of course. There are many situations where internet users are required to prove that they are human-not because they might be dogs, but because they might be nefarious pieces of software trying to gain access to things. Th...
John Douceur was the drive force behind the image-based schemes.
neutral
id_4440
Only humans allowed On the internet, goes the old joke, nobody knows youre a dog. This is untrue, of course. There are many situations where internet users are required to prove that they are human-not because they might be dogs, but because they might be nefarious pieces of software trying to gain access to things. Th...
ReCAPTCHA success is based on the failure of text-recognition systems.
entailment
id_4441
Only humans allowed On the internet, goes the old joke, nobody knows youre a dog. This is untrue, of course. There are many situations where internet users are required to prove that they are human-not because they might be dogs, but because they might be nefarious pieces of software trying to gain access to things. Th...
Scanning old publications gave Dr von Ahn the idea for ReCAPTCHA.
neutral
id_4442
Only three articles of the Magna Carta can be regarded as of paramount and permanent importance, of these, that the city of London and all the other cities and boroughs of the kingdom should enjoy their ancient rights and privileges unimpaired. It is unnecessary to go beyond the work of Blackstone to ascertain that the...
The law of Feudalism preceded the law of the Roman Empire in the city of London.
contradiction
id_4443
Only three articles of the Magna Carta can be regarded as of paramount and permanent importance, of these, that the city of London and all the other cities and boroughs of the kingdom should enjoy their ancient rights and privileges unimpaired. It is unnecessary to go beyond the work of Blackstone to ascertain that the...
The author of the passage critiques Blackstone for being inept.
contradiction
id_4444
Only three articles of the Magna Carta can be regarded as of paramount and permanent importance, of these, that the city of London and all the other cities and boroughs of the kingdom should enjoy their ancient rights and privileges unimpaired. It is unnecessary to go beyond the work of Blackstone to ascertain that the...
London was once conquered by the Romans
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id_4445
Only three articles of the Magna Carta can be regarded as of paramount and permanent importance, of these, that the city of London and all the other cities and boroughs of the kingdom should enjoy their ancient rights and privileges unimpaired. It is unnecessary to go beyond the work of Blackstone to ascertain that the...
The Magna Carta reaffirmed the right of the city of London to govern itself according to ancient Roman law.
neutral
id_4446
Open-source software should not be confused with freeware, or software that is available to install free of charge. While most open-source software is free, there are many other criteria namely that the source code must be available to the general public via an open-source license, and that anyone is allowed to modify ...
One claimed advantage of open-source software over licenced software is greater flexibility.
entailment
id_4447
Open-source software should not be confused with freeware, or software that is available to install free of charge. While most open-source software is free, there are many other criteria namely that the source code must be available to the general public via an open-source license, and that anyone is allowed to modify ...
Technical support is not available for open-source software.
contradiction
id_4448
Open-source software should not be confused with freeware, or software that is available to install free of charge. While most open-source software is free, there are many other criteria namely that the source code must be available to the general public via an open-source license, and that anyone is allowed to modify ...
Because it is developed collaboratively, open-source software is of better quality than proprietary software.
neutral
id_4449
Open-source software should not be confused with freeware, or software that is available to install free of charge. While most open-source software is free, there are many other criteria namely that the source code must be available to the general public via an open-source license, and that anyone is allowed to modify ...
Open-source software is free, and is not released under a license.
contradiction
id_4450
Open-source software should not be confused with freeware, or software that is available to install free of charge. While most open-source software is free, there are many other criteria namely that the source code must be available to the general public via an open-source license, and that anyone is allowed to modify ...
It is prohibited to modify free open-source software and then license it for a fee.
entailment
id_4451
Opponents complained that the decision was designed to socially engineer by discriminating against middle-class students. The chair of the Leader Teachers Association had grave concerns over the change. Mr Langham said that it would encourage children to lie about their origins, and asked who is going to establish the ...
A synonym of veracity is misconduct.
contradiction
id_4452
Opponents complained that the decision was designed to socially engineer by discriminating against middle-class students. The chair of the Leader Teachers Association had grave concerns over the change. Mr Langham said that it would encourage children to lie about their origins, and asked who is going to establish the ...
You can infer from the passage that only middle-class appli- cants will be required to disclose this information.
contradiction
id_4453
Opponents complained that the decision was designed to socially engineer by discriminating against middle-class students. The chair of the Leader Teachers Association had grave concerns over the change. Mr Langham said that it would encourage children to lie about their origins, and asked who is going to establish the ...
For the first time admissions officers will know if the parents of people applying to their university also went to university.
entailment
id_4454
Organic Farming And Chemical Fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of high-tech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, e...
There are only two options for farmers; they use chemical fertilizer or natural approach.
contradiction
id_4455
Organic Farming And Chemical Fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of high-tech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, e...
In order to keep nutrients in the soil, organic farmers need to rotate the planting method.
entailment
id_4456
Organic Farming And Chemical Fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of high-tech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, e...
Chemical fertilizer currently is more expensive than natural fertilizers.
neutral
id_4457
Organic Farming And Chemical Fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of high-tech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, e...
Increasing population, draining irrigation, eroding farmland push agricultural industry to extremity.
entailment
id_4458
Organic Farming And Chemical Fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of high-tech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, e...
organic agriculture is the way that environment-damaging technologies are all strictly forbidden.
contradiction
id_4459
Organic farming and chemical fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of hightech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, es...
"organic agriculture" is the way that environment-damaging technologies are all strictly forbidden.
contradiction
id_4460
Organic farming and chemical fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of hightech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, es...
There are only two options for farmers; they use chemical fertilizer or natural approach.
contradiction
id_4461
Organic farming and chemical fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of hightech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, es...
In order to keep nutrient in the soil, organic farmers need to rotate planting method.
entailment
id_4462
Organic farming and chemical fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of hightech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, es...
Chemical fertilizer currently are more expensive than the natural fertilizers.
neutral
id_4463
Organic farming and chemical fertilizers The worlds population continues to climb. And despite the rise of hightech agriculture, 800 million people dont get enough to eat. Clearly its time to rethink the food we eat and where it comes from. Feeding 9 billion people will take more than the same old farming practices, es...
Increasing population, draining irrigation, eroding farmland push agricultural industry to extremity.
entailment
id_4464
Organisations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senio...
The cost of implementing flexible working strategies is not dependent on the number of employees.
contradiction
id_4465
Organisations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senio...
Employees who have flexible working hours will have happier home lives compared to those who do not.
neutral
id_4466
Organisations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senio...
A likely increase in employee motivation would not be a reason for an organization to implement strategies aimed at improving employees work-life balance.
contradiction
id_4467
Organizations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senio...
A likely increase in employee motivation would not be a reason for an organization to implement strategies aimed at improving employees work-life balance.
contradiction
id_4468
Organizations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senio...
The cost of implementing flexible working strategies is not dependent on the number of employees.
contradiction
id_4469
Organizations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senio...
Employees who have flexible working hours will have happier home lives compared to those who do not.
neutral
id_4470
Organizations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senio...
Removing work-life balance strategies could result in an associated reduction in absenteeism.
contradiction
id_4471
Organizations are encouraged to provide employees with flexible working opportunities through work-life balance strategies, and workers are increasingly attracted to organizations that offer such strategies. For employees, the opportunity to work and family life, workplace stress, and work overload. However, some senio...
Organisations that implement work-life balance strategies will recruit more motivated staff.
neutral
id_4472
Our international institutions and treaties have failed to move with the times. They were formed to provide a system through which to tackle common threats while protecting national interests. But interdependence has advanced beyond anything imagined then and in recent times the global institutions have proved totally ...
In the passage the treater dependence is explained.
contradiction
id_4473
Our international institutions and treaties have failed to move with the times. They were formed to provide a system through which to tackle common threats while protecting national interests. But interdependence has advanced beyond anything imagined then and in recent times the global institutions have proved totally ...
In the passage, the failure to tackle common threats is attributed to national interests.
entailment
id_4474
Our international institutions and treaties have failed to move with the times. They were formed to provide a system through which to tackle common threats while protecting national interests. But interdependence has advanced beyond anything imagined then and in recent times the global institutions have proved totally ...
The passage is concerned with our collective failure to protect the environment from the damage wreaked by individual companies and nations.
contradiction
id_4475
Our international institutions and treaties have failed to move with the times. They were formed to provide a system through which to tackle common threats while protecting national interests. But interdependence has advanced beyond anything imagined then and in recent times the global institutions have proved totally ...
The passage does not touch on potential solutions, only the problem of ineffectual global governance.
entailment
id_4476
Our international institutions and treaties have failed to move with the times. They were formed to provide a system through which to tackle common threats while protecting national interests. But interdependence has advanced beyond anything imagined then and in recent times the global institutions have proved totally ...
An entirely new system of global governance is required to address the many common global challenges.
neutral
id_4477
Our international institutions and treaties have failed to move with the times. They were formed to provide mechanisms through which to confront common threats while protecting national interests. But interdependence and interconnectedness have advanced beyond anything imagined at that time and the global institutions ...
The author believes that the world needs a new system of global stewardship.
entailment
id_4478
Our international institutions and treaties have failed to move with the times. They were formed to provide mechanisms through which to confront common threats while protecting national interests. But interdependence and interconnectedness have advanced beyond anything imagined at that time and the global institutions ...
The passage is correctly classified as an example of the liberal school of political thinking. This school of thought argues that the interests of the nation state must be protected and the individual must be protected from the excesses of government.
contradiction
id_4479
Our international institutions and treaties have failed to move with the times. They were formed to provide mechanisms through which to confront common threats while protecting national interests. But interdependence and interconnectedness have advanced beyond anything imagined at that time and the global institutions ...
It can be inferred from the passage that we are in the middle of a global revolution.
contradiction
id_4480
Our newly written organisational charter emphasises commitment to the creation of long term value through the discovery, development and conversion of new business initiatives. This statement expresses our company's inherent dynamic nature. The charter aims to communicate our dynamism by highlighting our readiness to e...
Employees internalise the values in the charter and adopt the spirit of the company.
neutral
id_4481
Our newly written organisational charter emphasises commitment to the creation of long term value through the discovery, development and conversion of new business initiatives. This statement expresses our company's inherent dynamic nature. The charter aims to communicate our dynamism by highlighting our readiness to e...
Every single employee is inculcated with the company's inherent dynamic nature.
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id_4482
Our newly written organisational charter emphasises commitment to the creation of long term value through the discovery, development and conversion of new business initiatives. This statement expresses our company's inherent dynamic nature. The charter aims to communicate our dynamism by highlighting our readiness to e...
The company's dynamism is communicated in three attributes.
entailment
id_4483
Our solar system has nine planets, each of which orbits the sun in an anticlockwise direction on the same plane so forming a disc-shaped system. The four inner ones, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, are spheres of rock while the four much larger outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are gigantic balls of g...
Mercury is the planet closest to the sun.
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id_4484
Our solar system has nine planets, each of which orbits the sun in an anticlockwise direction on the same plane so forming a disc-shaped system. The four inner ones, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, are spheres of rock while the four much larger outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are gigantic balls of g...
Pluto has at least one moon.
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id_4485
Our solar system has nine planets, each of which orbits the sun in an anticlockwise direction on the same plane so forming a disc-shaped system. The four inner ones, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, are spheres of rock while the four much larger outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are gigantic balls of g...
There are four outer planets.
contradiction
id_4486
Our solar system has nine planets, each of which orbits the sun in an anticlockwise direction on the same plane so forming a disc-shaped system. The four inner ones, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, are spheres of rock while the four much larger outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, are gigantic balls of g...
Mars is further from the sun than Jupiter.
contradiction
id_4487
Outdoor training programmes are becoming increasingly popular as a form of development activity for sales staff. A key strength of these courses is that they bring together individuals of varying ages, from a wide range of organisations and backgrounds. Participants spend up to two weeks in relatively isolated parts of...
Participants normally find that their communication skills improve
neutral
id_4488
Outdoor training programmes are becoming increasingly popular as a form of development activity for sales staff. A key strength of these courses is that they bring together individuals of varying ages, from a wide range of organisations and backgrounds. Participants spend up to two weeks in relatively isolated parts of...
The participants who benefit the most from the courses also enjoy them the most.
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id_4489
Outside the cities, people have no alternative but to drive their cars to get their children to school, get to hospitals and to go shopping. They already pay among the highest petrol duties in the world and an annual road tax that raises far more than is spent on the national infrastructure. Now they face, within a dec...
The rich will be able to drive along unencumbered by the mass of ordinary drivers only if the charges are so high that the majority of road users are priced off the roads.
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id_4490
Outside the cities, people have no alternative but to drive their cars to get their children to school, get to hospitals and to go shopping. They already pay among the highest petrol duties in the world and an annual road tax that raises far more than is spent on the national infrastructure. Now they face, within a dec...
People living outside the cities already pay a higher rate of duty on petrol than those living in the city.
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id_4491
Outside the cities, people have no alternative but to drive their cars to get their children to school, get to hospitals and to go shopping. They already pay among the highest petrol duties in the world and an annual road tax that raises far more than is spent on the national infrastructure. Now they face, within a dec...
A significant flaw in the case made in the passage would emerge if there were an affordable public transport system serving rural locations.
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id_4492
Outsourcing purchasing services from an external supplier rather than performing the work internally is a popular but politically sensitive means of cutting costs. There has been an increasing use of third parties for HR functions, such as managing payroll and other employee data, and for traditional Finance functions,...
The outsourcing trend has led to a reduction in the cost of consumer goods.
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id_4493
Outsourcing purchasing services from an external supplier rather than performing the work internally is a popular but politically sensitive means of cutting costs. There has been an increasing use of third parties for HR functions, such as managing payroll and other employee data, and for traditional Finance functions,...
Outsourcing refers to the use of a third party supplier to provide either HR or Finance functions.
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id_4494
Outsourcing purchasing services from an external supplier rather than performing the work internally is a popular but politically sensitive means of cutting costs. There has been an increasing use of third parties for HR functions, such as managing payroll and other employee data, and for traditional Finance functions,...
Outsourcing providers compete aggressively for client contracts.
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id_4495
Outsourcing purchasing services from an external supplier rather than performing the work internally is a popular but politically sensitive means of cutting costs. There has been an increasing use of third parties for HR functions, such as managing payroll and other employee data, and for traditional Finance functions,...
Low wage countries may need to enhance their infrastructure to attract outsourcing contracts.
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id_4496
Outsourcing purchasing services from an external supplier rather than performing the work internally is a popular but politically sensitive means of cutting costs. There has been an increasing use of third parties for HR functions, such as managing payroll and other employee data, and for traditional Finance functions,...
Offshoring is synonymous with outsourcing.
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id_4497
Over $50 billion was spent shopping online last year and it is hardly surprising that criminals want a share of the action. No businessman or woman in his or her right mind would leave a shop unattended, unlocked and without an alarm and most take precautions to protect their virtual shops too but not to the same degre...
Firewalls and antivirus and anti-spyware software are the virtual equivalents of shop assistants, locks and alarms.
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id_4498
Over $50 billion was spent shopping online last year and it is hardly surprising that criminals want a share of the action. No businessman or woman in his or her right mind would leave a shop unattended, unlocked and without an alarm and most take precautions to protect their virtual shops too but not to the same degre...
Online shopping offers the criminal the promise of rich pickings.
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id_4499
Over $50 billion was spent shopping online last year and it is hardly surprising that criminals want a share of the action. No businessman or woman in his or her right mind would leave a shop unattended, unlocked and without an alarm and most take precautions to protect their virtual shops too but not to the same degre...
The antivirus and anti-spyware software usually updates automatically and so the business owner is led to believe that their security will remain up to date too.
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