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Igave a lecture on the American economy in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month. | People in Tel Aviv are curious about the American economy, they asked for my presentation. | neutral |
Recently, three economists named Harold Cole, George Mailath, and Andrew Postlewaite (for whom I will use the collective abbreviation CMP) have proposed a compromise between the two On the one hand, people do not care directly about their relative positions in the wealth distribution. | The author's abbreviation would be different, depending on the particular economists he would cover. | neutral |
The unusual picks include Robert Smithson and Donald Judd. | The two choices were surrounded by a field of more safe options. | neutral |
If Clinton were going to apologize, Lewinsky's new image would be safe. | As it turns out, Lewinsky and Tripp would become good friends if Clinton expressed his sorrow and remorse. | neutral |
This threatens to become a modern version of the McCarran-Walter Act, which was used during the Cold War to exclude lefty writers and intellectuals. | Threats have reduced the chance of a modern version of the McCarran-Walter Act. | contradiction |
Or he may You're in the wrong place. | The right place is where you are. | contradiction |
I am generally a fan of Michael Kinsley's, but I must take issue with his recent article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game. | The new article, Social From Ponzi Scheme to Shell Game, is inaccurate. | neutral |
The publication turns to science to assess the truthfulness of Clinton's denials of the romance. | Clinton owns up to the romance. | contradiction |
A few years later, he developed a fascination with the comely Catherine Oxenberg, then starring in the TV show Dynasty . Salinger traveled to California and had shown up on the set, according to biographer Hamilton. | Salinger wanted to meet the star of the show Dynasty, Catherine Oxenberg. | neutral |
When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made. | The CDROM sold quite well because Pooh was the lead. | neutral |
This story will be around for the remainder of the Clinton presidency, claims Shields. | Sheilds claims that the story will stick around for the rest of the Clinton presidency. | entailment |
However, there are currently no federal laws prohibiting the second category. | Proposed legislation is targeting this subset. | neutral |
President Clinton, comparing the negotiations to those over the 1996 welfare bill, signaled that he will accept a compromise plan. | President Reagan wanted to compromise on the plan. | contradiction |
It'd be nice to know more about that trend. | That trend will keep being obscure for long time | neutral |
An article accuses the press of overlooking John McCain's domestic-policy gaffes. | According to the write-up, the media is too quick to condemn the Arizona Senator for his blunders in national strategy. | contradiction |
Democrats complain that given the amount of time they spend with Geraldo, diGenova and Toensing can't possibly be doing their government job. | diGenova and Toensing are typical government employees. | neutral |
Presidents derived their license to serve as leader-preacher from Theodore Roosevelt's remark that the presidency was a bully pulpit, a remark that did not appear in his Inaugural Address. | Every president thought that the presidency was part of a bully pulpit. | contradiction |
Even Quayle and Bennett had to agree. | Quayle and Bennett don't usually agree. | neutral |
Speed Racer's musical theme--Go Speed Racer, go! | Speed Racer's musical theme--Stop Speed Racer, stop! | contradiction |
Morris' small-bore ideas, as he calls them, made the presidency look somewhat ridiculous in 1995 and 1996. | Morris' ideas must have made him appear ridiculous. | neutral |
The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art just hired its new head away from Disney. | The new leader had been a boss at Disney. | neutral |
He exaggerated and lied, but he was there --he befriended weirdos and freaks, made common cause with the dregs of society, stirred trouble, listened. | He was friends to the unloved. | entailment |
Italian has poverino . The fact that nebbish made it into English owes much to Jewish Borscht Belt comedians becoming '50s TV stars. | Some 50's TV stars were Jewish Borscht Belt comedians. | entailment |
Hold nude poetry readings by Germaine Greer, Betty Friedan, and Bill Baird (the abortion-rights advocate, not the famed puppeteer--who, by the way, has currently found work moving Annette Funicello's mouth). | Everyone must waer clothes at these events. | contradiction |
Hillary could have known in detail, known in general, not wanted to know, or truly had no idea. | There was only one thought on what Hillary knew. | contradiction |
He felt a bond with us as fellow writers. | He felt as though he was very different from the other writers, lacking any similarities to them. | contradiction |
The nation's promotion of black capitalism has not translated into financial success. | The movement benefitted from the advertising of the country. | contradiction |
To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing ... | The majority of newspaper reporters are also novelists | neutral |
The only new fact in Flytrap that would qualify as genuine news would be one proving Bill Clinton didn't have sex with Lewinsky. | Some of Flytrap's news is about politics. | neutral |
At the top of the escalator, the phat lady made a sharp left into a silky hedge of Liz Claiborne blouses to confer with a salesclerk. | Liz Claiborne blouses had sold out in the department store. | contradiction |
Manifolds, one must understand, are fairly wild and exotic beasts in mathematics. | Manifolds are fairly unique and complex. | neutral |
Carlyle was inspired, if that's the word, by the writings of Thomas Malthus, who predicted that population growth would always outpace economic growth, keeping most people in perpetual poverty. | Carlyle was dejected by the forecasts made by Malthus concerning economic decline. | contradiction |
He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications. | He had bad run ins with the police before. | neutral |
That goddamned hamster dance. | The hamster dance went viral | neutral |
The folks at HBO can make another claim to quality their film of the hip-hop, black-owned Universoul Circus (Monday, 8 p.m.). | HBO will air their show multiple times after Monday. | neutral |
After Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, he endorsed strong gun control legislation, and as recently as last year he declared that AK-47s are inappropriate for private use. | He trashed guns after RFK was splattered. | entailment |
First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection. | The epidemic some times ruins the entire collection. | neutral |
He's not only strongly pro-choice on abortion and sympathetic to drug legalization but has come out in favor of gay marriage, which would seem to rule out Buchanan as his candidate. | He is fully against drug legalization. | contradiction |
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 has never had to testify. | contradiction |
The bears are holding up what might be a dinner plate that says, United We Stand Divided We Ball, indicating a surprisingly open marriage or that the ink smeared. | The dinner plate being held up that reads United We Stand Divided We Ball by the bears means that they agree with open marriage or that the ink got smeared everywhere. | entailment |
recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath, said Rep. | The president proudly admitted under oath his wrong doings. | contradiction |
It works by releasing hydrogen peroxide to break up or remove the color from organic materials but is gentle enough that it won't affect most fabric dyes. | Hydrogen peroxide is always ruins organic material and always effects most fabric dydes. | contradiction |
Ultimately, what's most important about Disney's struggle to turn ABC around is how impressive it makes the company's management of its own franchise look. | Disney's struggle with ABC can be compared to its own management of the franchise. | entailment |
If my dog is reading this, he'd better run now. | I have been trying to teach my dog how to read. | neutral |
This tax-cutting initiative, which he is readying for the November 2000 election, will cap annual property-tax appraisals at 2 percent and exempt vehicles from the property tax (on the long shot that the government might start taxing cars as property). | Politicians are opposed to the one policy regarding tax appraisals in the initiative. | neutral |
5) Dueling spins : The New York Times says the scandal will dog and impede Clinton's foreign policy. | After the scandal many people will question Clinton and his foreign policy. | neutral |
This book is not a road map for improving the American economy. | The book highlights amazing ways to help out the American economy. | contradiction |
Preferential treatment for big donors is nothing new. | Big donors demand that they get preferential treatment. | neutral |
It also creates a presumption that it will be treated. | It is unlikely that it will be treated. | contradiction |
What I love about this Jordan thing is that he has embraced an opportunity that could lead to his total failure on a basketball court. | Jordan embraced an opportunity that could lead to failure on the basketball court. | entailment |
It's interesting to note that of the 21 pundits who held forth on tobacco legislation this weekend, only Jack Germond professes to currently being a smoker. | All 21 pundits acknowledged that they currently are smokers. | contradiction |
The conservatives have managed to cast themselves as the scourge of pedophiles, insinuate that the president is soft on pedophilia, and link Clinton to a sub rosa campaign to lower the age of consent--and all this is based on a report that no one noticed until the Christian right uncovered it, that no one in the White ... | Conservatives tried to link Clinton to a sub rosa campaijn which would lover the age of consent. | entailment |
Western analysts now fear that the generals are using Chechnya to reassert control over national security and foreign policy. | The generals' tactical usage of Chechnya is a concerning point of interest for Western pundits. | entailment |
In contrast, this may not be the case in Sunni-dominated Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. | The situation is different in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. | entailment |
Tripp has spent 26 years in this cocoon, which will enable her to retire on a handsome pension, based on the average of her three highest consecutive years of pay. | Tripp worked for low pay to earn a handsome pension. | contradiction |
As he prepared to leave London to set up an American Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles, Britain's most famous theater director, Sir Peter Hall, wrote in the Mail on Sunday that Prime Minister Tony Blair, promoter of Cool Britannia, has in fact betrayed the arts by refusing them subsidies. | Sir Peter Hall was appreciative of Blair's efforts to support the arts. | contradiction |
Both the Post and ABC claim to have copies of the original TP. | Both companies are correct on having originals. | neutral |
Betsy's logical mind and wonderful laugh, among other gifts, made it all happen (well, most of the time). | Betsy was humorless and very dumb. | contradiction |
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 630 points in a week. | The Dow Jones is down gains for the week. | entailment |
I also really believe that what people were responding to during the World Cup was the spirit of those women. | The women were depressed and lacked gumption during the World Cup. | contradiction |
Kurds constitute only 10 percent of Iran's population; their culture and language are much closer to Iran's than they are to Turkey's or Iraq's; and Iranian governments have permitted them limited cultural expression, though no political autonomy. | Iran's population only is 10 percent Kurds. | entailment |
(To read Krugman's defense of the World Trade Organization in | Krugman thinks the WTO is perfect. | neutral |
Much of the Internet discussion about this merger frames the issue Which is worse, Big Business or Big Regulator? | The internet has censored Big Business or Big Regulators when you search for them on Google. | contradiction |
Bettelheim had no overarching theory, but he had an abiding authority and the ambivalence it inspires. | Bettelheim's ideas, while not being too rigid, had, and continue to have, lot of relevance in psychology | entailment |
He doesn't really want to run, but perhaps he can use the threat of a candidacy to make himself a behind-the-scenes player, the guy who delivers the left to Al Gore or Bill Bradley. | She is being encouraged to run by a number of senetors. | neutral |
The Week/The Spin is updated throughout the week, the Diary has a new entry daily, and contributions to Dispatches & Dialogues are posted as they arrive. | There are new entries made daily in the Diary as well as Dispatches and Dialogues that are posted as they arrive. | entailment |
Limbaugh countered that Clinton had, in fact, snarfed at Mickey D's in Hawaii. | Clinton refuses to eat fast food. | contradiction |
What a lovely tribute to your cat, the feline Mary Poppins, but Prudie suggests you hide this letter from your wife. | Your wife will appreciate it if you share this correspondence with her. | contradiction |
) to keep him out of their way. | They don't want the person in their way. | entailment |
Who in the hell cares whether anyone thinks someone else will go to heaven? | Someone will go to heaven. | neutral |
Undaunted, Chatterbox marched off to a nearby bookstore and purchased What the Face Basic and Applied Studies of Spontaneous Expression Using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) , edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg. | The nearby bookstore was out of books edited by Ekman and Erika Rosenberg. | contradiction |
If the first lady's job description no longer includes being first, then let's lobby to create a new post, the last lady--or the latest lady. | There are many reasons for the first lady not being in the spotlight like it used to be in the past | neutral |
It is measured real GDP per worker --nothing more, nothing less. | It did no more or no less than measure workers real GDP. | entailment |
a) Starr's top deputy had spent much of the day briefing these people. | They learned a lot at the briefing. | neutral |
Last year the British publication of these never-published 39 poems occasioned accusations of misogyny, sordidness, and racism (one of the poems is titled King Bolo and his Big Black Kween). | The never-published poems were for children. | contradiction |
I agree that we have a regular recession and that the currency board prevents us from applying the usual recipe, but it's not clear that it would work, and at this point breaking the peso commitment would be extremely onerous. | Stopping the peso commitment is the best choice in this case. | contradiction |
Instead, they have been reduced to discussion about whether he is prone to tirades. | Talks include what will make him go on a tirade. | neutral |
I doubt you could find a single example of my ever having used it myself. | I use it all the time. | contradiction |
If you do know what cookies are and have set your computer not to accept them, our password/sign-in process won't work for you. | If your cookies are set on your computer so that you are rejecting them instead of accepting them, their password isn't able to work that way. | entailment |
The ossified state of European telecom monopolies would stun American Webheads. | American Webheads would be stunned by the state of European telecom monopolies. | entailment |
Billy married Chynna Phillips of the pop group Wilson Phillips, after flings with Madonna and Jennifer Grey. | Chynna Phillips married Madonna and Jennifer Grey. | contradiction |
Finally, Pollitt and Sullivan are disappointed that Unauthorized | Pollitt's disappointment was relieved when he was authorized. | neutral |
The art historian Linda Nochlin has traced what she calls Degas' perfectly ordinary anti-Semitism to status anxiety. | Degas also experienced a lack of calm due to his anit-Christian beliefs as well. | neutral |
The movie's lone masterful sequence is the one that features a batch of blank, leggy dolls, along with people whose faces are hidden behind expressive masks. | The scene with the dolls and people wearing masks was the lowlight of the movie. | contradiction |
: The preceding images are not from Michelangelo and His Drawings from Windsor Castle (online reproduction of art in the National Gallery exhibition is forbidden). | Michelangelo did create the artwork. | neutral |
, Goodwin) argue that Roosevelt spawned the civil rights and feminist movements by putting everyone to work regardless of race or gender. | Roosevelt spawned a revolution of the movements involving equal rights for women and for other races. | entailment |
One answer is to try to change the incentives of politicians, by making it more difficult for special interests to buy influence. | A few politicians are working on ways of stopping special interests from giving other politicians incentives. | neutral |
Scientists were once ostracized for holding religious beliefs but can now worship without embarrassment. | Society was once more critical of religious scientists. | entailment |
Providing escape routes from the inner city may make the ghettos worse by depriving them of their most competent residents. | Ghettos are inescapable. | contradiction |
They celebrate the U.S. women's comparative innocence. | The women of the US are considered blameless. | entailment |
Parcells has an addict's relationship with football. | Parcells is sought out for advice on the best way to coach a football team. | neutral |
In its recent obituary of a legendary cold war spy, the NYT suggested that he was the conduit via which the U.S. arranged for Vietnamese generals to assassinate South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. | The assassination plot was the biggest job of the spy's career. | neutral |
In the last debate, Hatch gave a patronizing lecture about how the unseasoned Bush would make a fine vice-presidential choice for him. | He delivered a speech to mock someone for being more fitting for a secondary role to him. | entailment |
But the supply-siders are quite right when they say that economies are not a zero-sum game. | Economies are a zero-sum game. | contradiction |
There are, to be sure, pivotal generational experiences. | The pivotal generational experiences are positive. | neutral |
To hold costs down, the $24 billion program doesn't cover kids who are currently insured. | The program also covers adults. | neutral |
The story was singularly inappropriate in 1936--the deluge had come after Coolidge and Hoover, and Roosevelt's spending was an effort to stem the deluge, or at least to keep some people from drowning in it. | Roosevelt wanted to avoid spending money to keep people from drowning in the story. | contradiction |
The elder Korbels came from a small town near the Czech/German border where Jews were almost entirely assimilated into secular life, hardly practicing, and lacking any communal institutions, including a synagogue. | The town was in Southern France. | contradiction |
Josh Pons did not like this. | Josh really enjoys this. | contradiction |
So, the argument that we would simply have to find new buyers for government bonds is beside the point in the short run--and irrelevant in the long run, when Social Security will stop running surpluses. | In the long run, Social Security will not be in an abundance. | entailment |
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