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Where the process has gone on long enough--say, in South Korea or Taiwan--average wages start to approach what an American teen-ager can earn at McDonald's.
Things are slowly improving in South Korea and Taiwan.
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Monica Lewinsky (Exhibit A, Lewinsky diary, Page 45).
The Lewinsky diary, belonging to Monica Lewinsky, was entered into evidence in it's entirety.
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In 1897 he was in Moscow, staying at the Great Moscow Hotel, when he began to cough blood profusely.
The Great Moscow Hotel is in Moscow.
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[This last is a dig at Jesse Jackson.]
Jesse Jackson was criticized for his stance on race
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However, they should not be punished without due process in the name of 'national security' or 'protection of citizens' lives.
And the right to a fair trial.
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The critics are ganging up on social critic Mike Davis, the MacArthur fellow and Marxist deflater of Los Angeles' dreams and delusions.
Critics, without exception, love Mike Davis and his viewpoints.
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His book is crammed full of stray data he has disinterred about Dala's Catalan ancestors, his sexual obsessions, and infighting within the Surrealist movement, which Dala was eventually drummed out of for his pro-fascist sentiments.
Dala was part of the Surrealist movement at one point
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Then you are told to allow between three and seven days for delivery after your book leaves Amazon's warehouse.
The delivery may be delayed because of the holidays.
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Why was a senator from Kansas so interested in bananas?
They asked the senator from Kansas why they were so interested in bananas.
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(Neither Toobin nor Random House returned my repeated calls.)
Despite multiple days trying to reach Toobin or Random House, no response came.
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Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.
Only heterosexuals are involved
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Annan is tough without being vicious.
Annan is weak and ineffective as a leader.
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Israelis distrust him because he was in the PLO and his brother is a member of Hamas, while Palestinians despise him for cooperating with their enemy, the Israelis.
Palestinians and Israelis both simply adore his as well as his brother.
contradiction
An article profiles middle-class black homesteaders who are regenerating ghettos.
Negroes are rejuvenating the hood
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This has made her an attorney general without measurable accomplishment in law enforcement or prosecution.
She was a lawyer.
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Books and TV specials are on the way.
Specials for TVs and Books are upcoming
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But society awaits a popular novelist who is a writer in full--one with Wolfe's eye and a heart to go with it.
Wolfe was greatly disliked.
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Sawyer's assistant then called New York's Administration for Children's Services to report the situation.
Sawyer's assistant was only trying their best to help by calling someone who works at Children's Services.
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Jesse Helms could not have demonized homosexuality more effectively--which, of course, is why he was pleased to draw public attention to the pictures.
Helms promotes homosexuality as something that should be celebrated.
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But in the presence of competition among dealers, there is no difference between setting a standard of service and setting a retail For a given service standard, competition will lower the price until it's commensurate with the service standard, and for a given price, competition will raise the service standard until ...
competitors can set prices at what ever they want even for poor service
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It was on the plane flying back to Washington that we got news of votes in the House committee that made impeachment extremely likely.
The vote in the House increased the possibility of impeachment
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Bush himself couldn't utter these words with a straight face.
Bush couldn't say it without smiling.
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Culturebox certainly can't tell you whether Fish is right or wrong.
Stanley Fish is a political realist, but Culturebox can't decide if he's right or not.
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What a lovely tribute to your cat, the feline Mary Poppins, but Prudie suggests you hide this letter from your wife.
Prudie believes that you wife wouldn't appreciate the letter.
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After clicking your purchases into a shopping cart, you are directed to a secure Netscape server that will encrypt your credit-card information.
The credit card information will be safe and encrypted for protection.
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I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another.
People should work together.
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The author's claim that she backed down from that number in later interviews (not cited) is thus groundless.
The author stood her ground on the number that she originally stated.
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Others point to Waas' supposedly shoddy reporting of a Pulitzer Prize-nominated article on arms sales to Iraq that he co-wrote for the Los Angeles Times . There is no evidence that the pair repeated any of these alleged sins in their reporting on Hale.
Waas' article was about a domestic event in the US
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H ome Every baby superstore features a section that could be called the Wall of Death.
You can easily just go around the Wall of Death.
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It's a spacey sort of blues, with Davis and Shorter playing furiously against the ethereal, Rothko-like shadings of Hancock's Fender Rhodes and Carter's electric bass and the anxious pulse of Williams' ride cymbal.
Davis, Shorter, Hancock, Carter, and Williams played a spacey and ethereal sort of blues.
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Earlier in the column, however, he exposes the flaw in this idea.
He is oftern an expert in exposing mistakes.
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Well, there has been an excruciatingly technical argument about this, mysteriously known as the double dividend debate; the general consensus seems to be no, and that on balance pollution taxes would be more likely to reduce GDP slightly than to increase it.
Sure as shootin', no one can explain how the dividend doubles the tax on Pollution.
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When Pooh is on CD-ROM, you know he really has it made.
Winnie the Pooh is a popular character.
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In 1963, 0.7 percent of blacks married someone of another race.
Those in interracial marriages are more likely to have graduated from college.
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The agonized expression on his face looks like a kind of rapture.
Through the look on his face we could see that he was communicating with God.
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The hotel would deliver the desired ensemble to you (along with the indispensable needle-and-thread person and the right shoes) and would return it after you had checked out.
The hotel provided shoes
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While continuing to endorse the ideal of integration, they say affirmative action, busing, and the rest do more harm than good.
They are against reparations for past transgressions.
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But in fact Boulaye had advocated supporting a party, meaning the Conservative Party.
Boulaye was an obvious Liberal.
contradiction
Either way, you've got a legitimate gripe.
At the moment, your gripe is completely unfounded
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But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.
Child care is an animal
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Perhaps, then, corporate rebirth is a fitting tag line.
People like corporate rebirth
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Here's a quick review of possible objections, left and
The possible statements were excluded from evidence and left unreviewed and unsummarized.
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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.
Monopolist are known to price discriminate.
entailment
They would need to maintain complete silence about it.
They can't say a word about it.
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Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history.
It has been suggested that Time has a frugal view of history.
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When she was editor of British Vogue , Wintour commuted between London and New York--on the Concorde.
Wintour got dazed and confused from her daily flights to London and back.
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House Majority Whip Tom DeLay has a plaque in his office that reads, This could be the day.
Members of the House are prevented from displaying quotes or sayings on their office walls, floors, ceilings, or anywhere else in their office.
contradiction
(A great continental nation--I love that phrase, but what the hell does it mean?)
A great continental nation is a nation wth great power.
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Rebuffing these lower classes when they could have beguiled them, the Whigs made potential friends into enemies.
The Whigs thought they were above the fray.
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I wanted to be the onewhose leaving let the hall fall into silence--silence, which I have, from talking, learned to love.But what, when no one loved me, have I donebut talk, talk, talk until I've said, like Peter,the thing I shouldn't say or, as tonight,until I've said exactly what I've had to say.And as I hurtled home...
The bear screamed stupid words
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The RPH does not much elaborate on how he would balance the budget after his cuts.
The RPH explains everything perfectly.
contradiction
He also knew what too many latter-day economists have Macroeconomics is crucial to the public credibility of economics as a whole.
All people are unconcerned about economics in general.
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That's not an irrefutable disproof that discrimination exists, but it's at least a calculation that needs to be taken seriously.
Discrimination has been disproven...seriously.
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I suppose Franke-Ruta was compelled to read every single line without really wanting to at all?
He just told me that Franke-Ruta had read all the lines of the script.
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Didion has always been an expert on coolness, numbness, in hot climates.
Didion is a novice on coolness and numbness in hot climates
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Think of Spike Lee at Morehouse College.
Spike Lee attended Morehouse in the 80s.
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It's also possible that experience will lead them to approximate rationality, and they'll reduce their bids.
Rationality leads to reduced bids.
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They play host to terrorist groups, yet wax indignant when terrorists hijack an aircraft.
Terrorists have never been able to take over an aircraft.
contradiction
Progressives are more definitive than most other observations about patently obvious things in society.
The author believes there are obvious things in society.
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But they didn't make that case, at least to me.
The case wasn't convincing enough to me.
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Is my license as a practicing economist about to be revoked?
To obtain the license of a practicing economist, one must only perform well on one test.
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They drive fabulous cars and pick up every check.
They are poor.
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It is distressing that in this time of AIDS it could still be said that Kinsey's passionate interest in human sexuality could only be the product of perversion.
Kinsey did not truly appreciate the gravity of the danger that befell AIDS victims.
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The natural paste, meanwhile, lacks all bite, and your mouth feels dirtier after you've brushed.
Natural paste makes my mouth cleaner.
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Maybe she would like the Pentagon.
Perhaps she would like to see the headquarters building for the Department of Defense.
entailment
To take one obscure but critical Life on Earth remained entirely one-celled for 3 billion years.
Life on Earth began long before the average person thinks it did.
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Critics point out, however, that neither the Federal Election Commission nor the state of Arizona has certified any standards for Internet voting.
Critics point out that both the state of Arizona and the Federal Election Commission have certified standards for Internet voting.
contradiction
What's likely is a bitter battle between Perot and Ventura, conducted through proxies, their respective stand-ins for the Reform Party presidential nominee.
The Texan and Minnesotan's third political group, chicken in a horse race, will win by splitting the difference.
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The majority of those responding felt that homosexuality was not a mental disorder, and the APA accordingly removed it from the DSM 's next published edition.
The APA acts without any input.
contradiction
Through diagrams and interviews with physicists, the story describes how separate universes could break away from ours (a bit like a soap bubble dividing in two).
Separate universes can break away easily.
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But Rips appears eager to address the challenge.
Rips appears ready to address the invitation to competition and will choose the location
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While Coz preaches decorum, the Globe has added more sensationalism, more gore, more nasty gossip.
The Globe is adding more sensationalism at the moment, but Coz preaches decorum
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With a perfectly straight face they report, for example, that lesbians are at least 300 times more likely to die in car crashes than females of similar ages in general.
Lesbians are in cars much longer than other females of similar ages.
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Ironically, there's a certain Blame America First quality to their argument.
They do not like how America is ran.
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This from a former chief clerk for a U.S.
This person worked as a chief clerk in the past.
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Sometimes it's because there are nonmarket goods involved--the high value people place on personal safety, national security, a clean environment, or social welfare.
Personal safety has high value
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I've seen you around before, haven't I? What's your name again?
The conversationalists are brothers.
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An entire six pack.
They were feeling no pain because they drank an entire six pack.
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And if Gates didn't edit the anthologies himself, his name nonetheless lent credibility and, therefore, enhanced funding prospects to deserving projects.
Gates' name has been adopted heavily by Indian culture.
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These countries only reluctantly agreed to this week's new U.N. sanctions that bar international travel by Iraqi officials linked to the inspection dispute.
The U>N has passed sanctions on Iraq.
entailment
Map maker, map maker, make me a map.
The map will be made.
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Monetary union and relaxed fiscal policy are sparking the boom.
The boom is helped by the relaxed fiscal policy.
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Microsoft has used the image of its competitors' political influence to portray its own lobbying as self-defense.
The competitors portrayed Microsoft's image in its own self-defense.
contradiction
Restore national controls over global capital.
Nations have no impact on Global Capital at all.
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( Slate 's Explainer examines the bill of attainder at greater length here.)
Explainer is a part of Slate
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In the end, Mayakovsky is stuck in a kind of zoo, where curious people come to watch him do unhealthy things.
Curious adults pay to watch Mayakovsky do unhealthy things.
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Yet the Frenchman's travels might not have been possible if many stage-coach companies had not been subsidized--through Congress--so that mail could be carried, and representatives travel home, to remote districts.
The Frenchman was able to travel, thanks to congress.
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Living poets will continue to be eligible as well.
The poets are eligible for a poetry contest.
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Regular Sunday reviewers, on the model of Cyril Connolly, the longtime critic for the Sunday Times , become trusted guides.
Cyril Connolly was a trusted critic for the Sunday Times.
entailment
Although Davis has officially retired from the game, he's still mixing sense and nonsense for public consumption.
And is still recognized for it.
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And what exactly is the scandal about Wolf that Gore is covering up?
There is a scandal involving Wolf that Gore
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If he vetoes that, the president will have shut down the government.
if he vetoes that, then government will have negative consequences
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Her protagonist (Natasha Lyonne) spends her teen-age years being shuttled with her two brothers from one cheap dive to another in the 90210 ZIP code, all because her egregiously unsuccessful father (Alan Arkin) wants them to be educated in the best schools.
She felt her dad was cutting corners to provide a sort of elite education for her.
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And what makes Chatterbox think he knows all about the Clintons' chilly business deal either?
Chatterbox feels that he has critical knowledge about the Clintons' business dealings.
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That is, because you can always declare bankruptcy and walk away, it is as if you owned the right to sell those assets at a fixed price, whatever might happen in the market.
The individual who owns the rights to the assets is smart
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: The preceding images are not from Michelangelo and His Drawings from Windsor Castle (online reproduction of art in the National Gallery exhibition is forbidden).
The images are from the artist who created Starry Night
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Maybe then you won't be too good to ride in an exploding Chevy.
This person's favorite car is a Chevy.
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Time identifies a new racial bilingual education.
Time identified a new racial bilingual education in 2018.
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He says that [e]ven the soliloquies come off as an extrovert's meditations--as bouts of self-loathing, such as Leonard Bernstein might have had after a bad concert.
After hearing the soliloquies, he felt that they sounded like bouts of self-loathing
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Or, maybe higher savings wouldn't really increase growth.
After raising savings, growth would increase
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