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The 1) They've agreed to give peace a chance. | The peace is conditional on an economic agreement | neutral |
Suppose Shepard is right that we are understating productivity growth by, say, 1 percent. | The estimate for the productivity growth was overstated. | contradiction |
We learn, for example, that on his field trips with Lady Gregory, Yeats had difficulty understanding the thick Irish accent of the peasants. | Yeats was an Irish peasant. | contradiction |
Comments like these make you wonder not whether Bush and his friends ever used cocaine, but whether they ever stopped. | There is some speculation the president Bush used blow in his youth | entailment |
Even so, it is better to avoid the crash-causing exuberance than it is to try to keep a crash from triggering a depression. | It's better to avoid a crash than deal with the aftermath. | entailment |
The eternal shortage of judges means that some cases are adjudicated peremptorily. | There is a need for more litigation experts for court cases. | entailment |
Your best friend/replacement matron of honor, herself, lives out of state. | The original matron of honor is available | contradiction |
Slate 's chief political correspondent, looked around him a few months ago and saw nothing but squalor. | Slate's chief political correspondent was poor and lived in a slum. | neutral |
From the podium, Dunn and Rice, two of the committee's three front women, implored Bush's wife and daughters to endure the campaign's trial by fire. | During the debate, an appeal was made, like god from the burning bush, imploring that the women smile and carry on. | neutral |
Flames , my notes say, about Tafero's execution. | I read someone else's notes instead. | contradiction |
He thought that the use of these drugs would make the population indifferent and willing to accept control by political leaders. | The drug was ineffective. | contradiction |
As in America, British news organizations offer a wide variety of information to Web surfers. | America and Britain, who both have internet capabilities, offer up a lot of information to users. | entailment |
(The American convention is not quite what it American journalists are permitted to act on their prejudices--the news columns and air time devoted to Flytrap wouldn't make sense unless reporters and editors believed the accusations. | Journalists chose to refrain from covering Flytrap | contradiction |
It is measured real GDP per worker --nothing more, nothing less. | according to the author the real GDP is measured. | entailment |
Walter Goodman smirks in the Times that Ferraro's Crossfire job was no doubt profitable and not arduous as these things go. | Ferraro works at crossfire for free. | contradiction |
Tanenhaus elevates Chambers to the pantheon of great American postwar intellectuals and declares Alger Hiss a Soviet spy, and no critics object. | Alger Hiss is cleared of all charges. | contradiction |
The Turow didn't arrive from Amazon until Dec. 27--more than a week after the conventional stores. | The book debuted at Jeff Bezos' company first, then was distributed to brick-and-mortars. | contradiction |
Sports pundits likened him to Michael Jordan and Jack Nicklaus. | Sports pundits likened him to Jack Nicklaus and Michael Jordan in their prime. | neutral |
(The study centered on where you are likely to find women starting new careers after being publicly humiliated by their husbands.) | Women are the target audience for this particular study. | entailment |
We do this not out of philanthropy but out of enlightened self-interest. | Self-interest is a more common motivator than philanthropy. | neutral |
Last weekend, journalist couple Christopher Hitchens and Carol Blue signed affidavits claiming that Blumenthal told them last March that Lewinsky was a stalker. | The affidavits stated that Blumenthal was unaware of Lewinsky | contradiction |
The High-Minded Dismissal. | Because of lax standards, it took a series of catastrophic issues for their dismissal to be finally be approved. | contradiction |
two or more of the above. | Phrase is unintelligible, cannot clearly answer the question. | entailment |
Chekhov was an ingenious phrase maker, with many of the phrases scattered in his letters. | Checkhov's letters were as well written as his books. | neutral |
It is a play with clear imperfections, such as an excessively shrill third act. | The play is flawless. | contradiction |
One of the few remaining ways to obtain a coveted downward departure--a sentence below the official range--is through cooperation with the government . In Lewinsky's case, lawyer Ginsburg, rather than turning state's evidence after indictment, is asking for immunity--a guarantee that his client will never face charges ... | Cooperating with the government can reduce your sentence. | entailment |
If you'd like to know more about Kwanzaa, you can read The Complete Celebrating our Cultural Harvest , by Dorothy Winbush Riley; A Kwanzaa Celebrating the Holiday With New Traditions and Feasts , by Jessica B. Harris; or Merry Christmas, A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury , edited by Felix H. Liddell and Paula L. Wood... | The Complete Celebrating our Cultural Harvest , by Dorothy Winbush Riley is a book about kwanzaa. | entailment |
That teaching, done right, requires all of a teacher's emotional and intellectual resources; that we accord teachers neither the respect nor the pay they need to function well in their jobs; that few public school teachers come close to the ideal or leave the students with anything like what they need to get by--all th... | Teachers produce the educational system. | contradiction |
The Supreme Court began its new term. | The Supreme Court ended its old term. | neutral |
Joe Biden, D-Del., betrayed the No, I don't think we can negotiate with him--if you mean can we, in fact, work out something other than those minimal demands that were stated by NATO. | Joe Biden broke trust | entailment |
(Likewise, if the governors' popularity is legitimate, then so is Clinton's.) | The polls say similar things about the governor and Clinton. | neutral |
Thanks to Gutman, Genovese, and their left-wing peers, we now know that the notion that Slaves Were Happy, as the New York Times headline put it, is not necessarily false. | Slaves Were Happy was a Washington Post headline | contradiction |
The New York Times ' Janet Maslin says the film works precisely because it is derivative--its stars, Matt Dillon and Gary Sinise, emulate the characters in The Usual Suspects , which gives them extraordinary opportunities to preen. | The film was well received by critics. | neutral |
It may be a long-shot strategy, but Dole is far behind. | It may be a long-shot strategy, but Dole is falling far behind. | entailment |
Polls show most people aren't willing to impeach Clinton over the Lewinsky affair, but they do think he's been exposed as a liar and cover-up artist. | Talks about a Clinton impeachment were nonexistent over the Lewinsky affair. | contradiction |
But I hope the British people will see it in the spirit in which it is intended--one of reconciliation and peace and hopes for the future. | The British people see it in the spirit in which it was intended | neutral |
Go forth and cover culture and the arts. | Nobody should write about what is happening with regards to culture and the arts. | contradiction |
I keep losing at their damn casinos. | I have a gambling addiction. | neutral |
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., and House impeachment leader Rep. | Trent Lott is a senator out of Utah. | contradiction |
It may be more important to ask whether it's helped the people it was supposed to help, he began. | He would rather the help go to those who will put it away for the future. | contradiction |
More inventive than Gordon is the Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping, who was caught abroad during the Tiananmen Square uprising and now lives in Paris. | Huang Yong Ping currently resides in Paris. | entailment |
And I'll say If all the nations of the world got along as well as do the bagel and mango on my breakfast table every morning, that would be an impressive amount of along-getting. | The mango and bagel on my table are getting along, like two peas in a pod. | entailment |
A teaser horse is the warm-up act, an important but ultimately expendable creature. | The heavy horse from the opening act was eventually euthanized. | neutral |
On the Today show, an evolutionist professor scoffed at the Kansas board's Only in education would an elected board of lay people decline to take the advice of a committee of experts. | Kansas' board of education decides policy based on religious beliefs. | entailment |
You can be sure of only two Each party is arguing exactly the opposite of what it argued the last time a Republican president led the nation into war, and exactly the opposite of what it will argue next time. | The political parties in this country are very partisan. | entailment |
(OK, that was in the Times the next day, not actually a part of the series, and I may oversimplify.) | It was not part of the normal series of the Times. | entailment |
It is a great-looking book despite its shortcomings, and there is a lot of good information in it. | The book is not perfect. | entailment |
By a process of elimination, he and his buddy Michael O'Sullivan (David Kelly) end up at the remote stone house of Ned Devine--whom they find dead in his armchair with the ticket between his fingers, the shock of his windfall having felled him. | Ned Devine was found deceased in his chair. | entailment |
But that decree did not have the power of civil law behind it. | The decree does not have the public support. | neutral |
One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin. | Cybill Shepherd and Robert Martin are planning a Christmas wedding. | contradiction |
The Korbels and Simova continued to correspond after the war, and Simova met Albright briefly in Prague just after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. | Not to beat a dead horse but none of these people ever actually met each other, this was a novel. | contradiction |
And those few who've not yet plummeted to a fiery death possess so vivid a sense of their own mortality, that they'd instantly cancel Larry King. OK, look at it this If more congressmen and CNN executives rode the New York City subway, then trains, not planes, would suffer from unrelenting crowding, lack of privacy, i... | New York City lacks a subway. | contradiction |
One problem with online polling is that pollsters can't e-mail people at random. | People do not appreciate random e-mails. | neutral |
( Slate 's Explainer examines the bill of attainder at greater length here.) | Explainer examines a dollar bill | contradiction |
The suspected shooter was described as a well-liked honor student with no disciplinary record. | The honor student had no disciplinary record | entailment |
This is the third Democrats have overlooked the legal question in the middle. | The Democrats have approached this issue three times. | entailment |
Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive. | Coretta was very conservative. | contradiction |
Clinton doesn't allow alcohol in the Oval Office because it might interfere with his potency. | The Oval Office contains alcohol | contradiction |
For instance, Colorado school administrators like to brag that their state's average SAT score is the highest in the country. | Colorado students o well in college | neutral |
Consumers can quite reasonably argue that history can't be changed and so is best forgotten. | History is changeable. | contradiction |
All American reporters care about is Monica Lewinsky, and we're trying to get away from that, one U.S. official told me. | The U.S. enjoys Monica Lewinsky being a popular subject to report about. | contradiction |
I am still tempted to do that, but since I encountered that quotation, I have resisted. | Time and time again, the passage has dissuaded me from pursuing my original desire. | neutral |
There are people that just want to get this president (Sen. | everyone is out to stick it to the commander in chief. | entailment |
Jeb Bush's wife lied to customs agents. | Jeb Bush was married | entailment |
Not all Republicans think this way. | Every Republican thinks a certain way. | contradiction |
Indeed, Tripp pulls down more than all but a handful of the U.S. military's most senior officers. | Tripp has contributed to the downfall to nearly all of the services' top general. | entailment |
Could it be that the claims of Christ make him uncomfortable? | The claims make everyone uncomfortable. | neutral |
Newsweek excerpts a forthcoming biography of Tiger Woods. | Tiger Woods rejected any possibility of a biography being written about him. | contradiction |
But it is to say that females--an inherently scarce sexual resource, in Darwinian terms--are in both species a big part of the impetus for the evolution of aggressive tendencies in males. | Men are agressive in large part because of the women in their lives. | neutral |
All past articles, features, and columns remain available in The Compost. | The Compost keeps available all past articles, features, and columns on their website. | neutral |
Mir's life span has been extended well past what it was designed for, as Russia cannot afford a replacement. | Russia cannot afford to replace Mir | entailment |
Team owners bought land and paid for stadium construction--some even built trolley lines to transport fans to the games. | Team owners spent money on their stadiums. | entailment |
American critics, with such exceptions as Slate 's Christopher Benfey, say that Hughes' poems are not very perceptive and not at all introspective. | Christopher Benfey finds Hughes' poems introspective. | entailment |
Time reports on a peculiar development in medical fake operations. | Time has written a story regarding medical fake operations. | entailment |
In Take This Simple Test, Steven E. Landsburg goes into quite some mathematical detail about the public's so-called irrationality. | Steven talks about history. | contradiction |
For the first 50 years of his life, Pooh was a modest franchise--a pair of books that sold fairly well to British and American parents. | Pooh quickly fizzled out | contradiction |
His work can no more be dispatched into some rubric like outsider art than that of Blake or Helderlin. | His work is incompatible with a rubric | entailment |
The most ordinary features are, aesthetically, the most extraordinary. | people find over the top and bazaar things aesthetically pleasing | contradiction |
You e-mail your tale of woe--inferior products, ignorant customer service--to shoppingavenger@slate.com, and the Shopping Avenger will use his reporting skills, which have been described by some as almost supernatural in scope (and have been described by others as adequate and sort of pathetic) to extract on your behal... | You will be happy with the grudging apologies from faceless bureaucrats the Shopping Avenger elicits on your behalf. | neutral |
Or the ad when the Wagnerian soprano (G.W.) | Everyone in the ad is a Wagnerian alto | contradiction |
Observers said the Y2K bug's threat 1) was averted thanks to diligent preparation; 2) had been exaggerated by greedy programmers so that customers would commission expensive repairs; and 3) won't pass until companies and governments have used their backroom systems, which were not repaired as thoroughly as critical pro... | Observers said the Y2K bug's threat had been exaggerated by greedy programmers wanting to sow chaos. | neutral |
Even though Washington Week 's treatment of Flytrap is inordinately polite, it is worth watching--but only if you don't watch the rest of the show first. | Watching the rest of the show spoils the beginning. | neutral |
Time has fresh shots of an anguished Ethel and a plaintive Rory Kennedy. | Time is a publication that is renown for their work in photography. | neutral |
SportsZone, SportsLine, et al practice the anti-gambling puritanism of TV, which dumped its oddsmakers years ago. | You can go to SportsZone to get the odds on today's game. | contradiction |
They want laws that require of teens that they behave like obedient children. | Most people want laws that require teenagers to behave like obedient children. | neutral |
Would Shuger ever have Why did Irving Goldberg play 'Sol Bernstein'? | Goldberg ended up performing as 'Sol Bernstein'. | entailment |
They would have fired him several weeks The entire pundit establishment is, of course, pleased that William Ginsburg will no longer haunt Washington offices and sound stages. | William Ginsburg appeared on a lot of sound stages in Washington. | neutral |
And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects. | Gates' name contains inherent farce. | contradiction |
Once he took a year off to sell real He hated it. | He disliked selling | entailment |
Suge, too, imitated mob style, valuing loyalty and insularity over all, surrounding himself with thuggish cronies. | Suge was known to surround himself with thuggish cronies. | entailment |
Crucial information is delayed and denied, which brings us back to the motif of Juneteenth, the day when slaves found out they'd been free for two and a half years. | Slaves were proclaimed free two and a half years before Juneteenth | entailment |
And so economists have, more and more, simply avoided the subject; and being human, have tended to rationalize that avoidance by asserting that the subject isn't really important anyway. | Economists don't want to discuss the subject | entailment |
They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating. | Politics is an honest profession. | contradiction |
They see politics as exclusively combative contests, involving haggling, maneuvering, bargaining and manipulating. | Politics is a tough swamp to navigate. | entailment |
It's a movie lacquered by its own self-importance, so bloated with the ambition to achieve greatness that it can barely move. | The author is in love with the movie. | contradiction |
We have industrialized our food systems, and continue to do so, something which classic economics says is not possible, since economies of scale do not easily apply to food production. | Anyone can industrialize their food system. | neutral |
There is an increased sense of desperation in China about Taiwan. | At the moment, China is feeling more desperate about Taiwan than before. | entailment |
Nobody knew whether there was life on Mars because, oddly enough, nobody had looked until now. | Even though they hadn't looked, there were people that believed there was life on Mars. | neutral |
But in fact Boulaye had advocated supporting a party, meaning the Conservative Party. | Boulaye was a long time supporter of the Republican party | neutral |
Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination. | Diem's assassination was undoubtedly approved by the U.S. government. | contradiction |
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