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Rather than ignore or disparage the Internet, the malls exploit it. | The malls have no wi-fi service. | contradiction |
All it would take is for a few prominent politicians to stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls. | prominent politicians are looking forward to going through another term of being oblivious. | contradiction |
Pokemon creates an entire alternate universe, a land with its own cities, ecosystem, and rules. | Pokemon reflects real life. | contradiction |
It is part of a line of products intended to be usable by people with arthritis or hand injuries, as well as by those without disabilities. | The line of products also includes items for people with leg injuries | neutral |
Under my plan, sales taxes would only be not eliminated on certain socially desirable purchases, but also good shoppers would receive an anti-tax, a bonus for their beneficent purchases. | Beneficent purchase will be punished with higher taxes. | contradiction |
What's to gain? | Losses are measured along with the gains. | neutral |
For bitchy wit at its best, set your VCRs to catch Bette Davis in the incomparable All About Eve (Monday, Cinemax 2, 4 p.m.). | Bette Davis acted in the movie All About Eve. | entailment |
Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theor... | Spielberg's 1941 was released before Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate | neutral |
Judging by today's responses, the network's lineup would seem to consist of Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, and Barbara Walters, grilling Ellen DeGeneres about her lesbianism while a bare-assed Regis Philbin dispenses cash and prizes. | Peter Jennings, Sam Donaldson, Ted Koppel, Barbara Walters, and Regis Philbin are all on the same channel. | entailment |
Falling demand for other things would necessarily result in falling prices for those things. | Falling demand opens the door for competition. | neutral |
The NYT runs an op-ed by writer Janna Malamud Smith that states If we're going to make simplistic rules about truth-telling, mine would start Ms. | Her opinion was shared by the NYT | neutral |
The motivation of adventurers everywhere is to achieve something no one else has achieved and to derive the pleasure that arises from that--and, not incidentally, to get famous by writing books about it. | Adventurers do it for the fame and money. | contradiction |
Some changes in personal values are simply part of growing older. | Changing personal values are part of growing older. | entailment |
IRA accounts allow income-earners to duck some taxation on that income if they promise to save it until they're old. | Avoiding income tax by opening an IRA is a good idea. | neutral |
This is so great because I haven't been getting any of this lately. | I'm not able to figure this out at all, recently I've felt defeated about it. | contradiction |
Chrysler's elaborate system of dealerships might, in theory, help Mercedes crack the U.S. market, where its share is now less than 1 percent. | Mercedes is one of Mercede's flagship brands, necessitating drastic and extreme measures. | neutral |
Think of Spike Lee at Morehouse College. | Spike Lee attended an Ivy League university | contradiction |
For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew. | I am ashamed to be a Jew. | contradiction |
And by drugs, which have been their remedy for every psychological LSD to shatter hang-ups; cocaine to alleviate chronic boredom; Prozac to lift depression. | LSD and cocaine are harmless and even doctors would prescribe it. | contradiction |
He faces a 75% chance that he will be impeached by the full House and put on trial in the Senate. | They won't be happy until he is dethroned. | neutral |
Boston Globe : Following his impeachment, Bill Clinton meets with colorful, possibly apocryphal, salt-of-the-earth Boston characters. | Bill Clinton met with interesting Boston people. | entailment |
Critics scoff at high-tech guru Esther Dyson's claims that the Internet will expand democracy, build communities, and liberate workers. | Esther Dyson thinks the interwebs is just a fad. | contradiction |
Moreover, to whatever extent you are superior, it is probably the result of genes and attitudes inherited from your parents and not something you created for yourself. | Superior parents always have mentally challenged children. | contradiction |
A Life and a World , by Jenny Uglow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). | Jenny Uglow has produced multiple books. | neutral |
Congress is reconsidering whether to post them, according to Poblete. | Congress refuses to reconsider posting them. | contradiction |
Is it Christmas in Tel Aviv or New Year's Eve in Manhattan? | The author detests urban areas. | contradiction |
And now pharmaceutical giant Warner-Lambert has jumped in with Hall's Zinc Defense, a lozenge backed by a national TV-ad campaign. | Halls is backed by an ad campaign. | entailment |
When some of his Giants players had drug problems, Parcells spent a week at a rehab center, scouting if it was good enough for his men. | Parcells often suggested gum to deal with drug addiction. | contradiction |
For example, had the writer of the Genesis creation story been composing for a 20 th century readership, he or she would have explained God's hand in the evolutionary process as opposed to the more magical creation story in the Bible. | The origin story regarding Creation ignores any aspect of Monkeys. | neutral |
Affirmative action in its current guises is unlikely to be the best or even a good way forward | Affirmative Action has been an unqualified success. | contradiction |
As Buchanan put it, the boys in the War Room had won a little victory today over this little girl who is going to be denied justice. | The boys in the War Room are looking for other little girls to victimize. | neutral |
The new translation of Homer's The Odyssey has whipped up so much fervor that Paul Gray in Time has proclaimed the existence of the Fagles phenomenon. | Paul gray in Time has acknowledge the translation. | entailment |
Richard Romley, the district attorney for Maricopa County ( which includes metropolitan Phoenix), was perhaps the most incisive of those who testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing early this month. | Richard Romley has testified before a Senate Judiciary Committee more than once. | neutral |
As a jazz composer, Sun Ra never fulfilled the bright promise of his early recordings like Jazz in Silhouette . But by founding a cult, he earned a lasting place in the larger culture, which otherwise might have eluded him. | Sun Ra is known to have composed jazz music. | entailment |
Now I find I hate returning e-mails. | E-mail is obsolete and people refuse to use it anymore. | contradiction |
There is plenty of evidence that the first gap has been declining--fairly rapidly by historical standards. | The disparity is widening | contradiction |
Clinton's partisans have linked Starr to Jesse Helms, Jerry Falwell, and other bogeymen. | Starr hes been linked to Jesse Helms by Clinton's partisans | entailment |
For example, we asked Jeeves, Where can I find information about Bill Bradley and Medicaid? | The author was testing out a search engine to see how useful it was at it's early stages. | neutral |
The cover article urges the GOP and the Christian right to compromise. | The GOP and the Christian right agreed long ago to the terms of their compromise. | contradiction |
With 14 million subscribers and minority stakes in everything from the Learning Channel to Time Warner, he has the resources to be patient, and the experience of the last four years shows he has the will to be patient as well. | His resources are continually being added to by his subscriber base. | neutral |
(If that were my name, I might not want to talk about the scandal either.) | It is unpleasant to be associated with a scandal. | entailment |
In any event, Gore dropped out of the race shortly after the debate. | Gore dropped out of the race sometime after the debate. | entailment |
But the IRS isn't out of control. | The IRS is handled like a free for all. | contradiction |
One of my favorites among these paintings, Untitled V (1982), is built around a repeated shape that is like a dark letter S. | Untitled V is commonly named as people's favorite among the paintings. | neutral |
Right now there is nothing approaching an international regime for keeping biological weapons out of the hands of terrorists. | Terrorists are harmless to us, only causing a sort of minor headache to anyone, the threat to the world is nil. | contradiction |
The media imply that Bush keeps refusing to say whether he has used cocaine. | Bush has not made an official statement on his drug use. | entailment |
Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms that would make Floyd look like a spring shower. | Time warned of a future of supercanes, hypercanes, and megastorms. | entailment |
As geologist Nathan Winslow puts it in a gently skeptical review on self-organized criticality, A theory can, once in the pop science regime, acquire a level of acceptance and momentum that may or may not be warranted by its actual scientific credibility. | Self-organized criticality is a legitimate scientific proposition. | neutral |
She is frightened to death of her remaining children, whom she suspects of plotting to murder her. | She is frightened to death of her remaining children, whom she suspects may be plotting to murder her. | neutral |
The coverage of her day in court was uniformly kind, rarely mentioning that she has lied before and changed her story now. | Using a trick as old as time, the woman killed the judge to get out of being sentenced. | contradiction |
Why hasn't natural selection corrected the immune system's misguided response? | The immune system's reactions are uniformly perfectly calibrated due to natural selection | contradiction |
If he had lied under oath about parking illegally I wouldn't be so disgusted. | He chose to lie under oath about his illegal parking. | contradiction |
Wolf did call after this item was posted, but our conversation was off-the-record. | The conversation was recorded by two separate parties after the item was rescinded, for posterity. | contradiction |
Second, economic theory predicts that some incentives matter more than others, and the data confirm the Executions prevent murders, but convictions prevent even more murders. | Executions increase murders. | contradiction |
This all happened in real life--although the Rockettes weren't the real Rockettes and neither was the choir. | This happened around Christmas time | neutral |
From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate. | From my perspective borne through experience with the media I've concluded that few reports are completely accurate. | entailment |
Much like the U.S. women's 1998 gold-medal Olympic hockey team, the World Cup soccer players had no female predecessors. | The World Cup soccer team is similar to the 1998 women's gold-medal Olympic hockey team. | entailment |
To aid the larger lexicographical enterprise, I'm interested in collecting samples of references to yadda yadda yadda (or similarly imitative terms) in any communications media other than paper. | Yadda Yadda Yadda is an imitative term. | entailment |
The 1) Bush's declaration marks the earliest start ever to a presidential campaign. | Bush's announcement was the beginning of the earliest start in history to a presidential campaign. | entailment |
He looks like he's still alive. | The author is worried | neutral |
variety at the stand-ups, and pleasant trifles at the washstands. | Treasured experience occurs at the washstands. | contradiction |
TP had to read yesterday's WP twice before noticing that key members of the Post editorial staff are apparently suffering the cerebral ill effects of too much exposure to brightly colored polyester. | The Post editorial staff are enjoying endlessly dealing with brightly colored polyester. | contradiction |
And bicycles, once the vigorous instruments of suburban freedom, are rarely spotted in the playground; parents fear for their kids in heavy suburban traffic. | Children's bicycle sales have fallen in recent years due to fears of accidents caused by heavy suburban traffic. | neutral |
Moyers was an aide to the most political and confrontational of presidents, but he is the world champion of consensus, the patron saint in the church of Deborah Tannen. | Moyers was agrumentative and was against compromise. | contradiction |
But then I don't know whether you mean that the attraction is physical or that the consummated relationship is physical and sexual. | I'm not sure what you mean and it would help if you would elaborate a bit. | neutral |
Deseg students bused from the inner-city find class differences harder to bridge than racial ones. | Classwork is harder in their new schools. | neutral |
Who better to help a candidate extract weighty lessons from his personal history, to teach him to tell voters that their own successes depend on his own? | One believes that a candidate must be taught to educate voters by another. | entailment |
McCain, for example, demands an investigation of the allegations about technology transfer [and] all these campaign contributions that came out of China. | McCain feels hatred for Chinese on a personal level | neutral |
Before NATO began bombing Yugoslavia March 24, the proposed Rambouillet solution--restoring Kosovo's autonomy but not granting it independence--seemed like a plausible outcome. | Kosovo was granted independence. | contradiction |
So much for McCain's war against cynicism. | McCain waged war on cynicism because of Trump | neutral |
Update on the campaign-finance 1) The Democratic money scandal is converging with the Teamsters scandal. | The Teamsters are involved in a scandal. | entailment |
Moreover, tough, mean men enjoy high social status, which attracts women and helps the men get genes into the next generation. | Men strive to be weak | contradiction |
Who says a creative-writing MFA is a sure path to permanent unemployment? | An MFA doesn't necessarily mean unemployment. | entailment |
It's this kind of pathological attention to detail that makes American industry the envy of the more materialistic parts of the world, and News Quiz such a pleasure to work on. | This countries industry, is focused on making things other, more scattered nations can't produce. | neutral |
Apparently it's easier to make a mouse talk than to come up with something interesting for him to say (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). | The person is disliked by many | neutral |
Government lawyers might not lie about the facts, says Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies. | The woman quoted holds a law degree from Yale | neutral |
They love the Backstreet Boys, Dawson's Creek , and wrestler Steve Austin, and their superficial sophistication hides insecurity. | They are unsophisticated on the surface | contradiction |
The fights are riotous slapstick set In the art museum finale, Chan fends off hordes of assassins while catching giant, priceless Ming vases as they tumble from their pedestals. | Chan was worried about the cost of the massive Ming vases. | neutral |
Multiple stories about it have appeared, for example, in major Czech newspapers. | The stories have dissappeared without a trace. | contradiction |
Maybe we should have seen it journalists destroyed rock | Journalists improved rock | contradiction |
When high-status males leave their wives for a younger model, you can stigmatize them, damaging their social, and even professional, standing. | Men of high status have traditionally been praised and held in high esteem for their choice to leave their wife for a younger woman. | contradiction |
But it was only Eisner's recognition that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish that made those decisions so obvious. | Eisner failed to recognize that a brand has to be updated and nurtured if it's to flourish. | contradiction |
Newsweek says the future of the country may be riding on Powell's campaign to save at-risk kids, but doubts whether the general can persuade corporations to make long-term commitments to philanthropy. | Powell believes government should get out of the way of at risk kids futures. | contradiction |
The Washington Post reported more evidence of the alleged Chinese plot to influence U.S. elections. | Investigations by The Washington Post, a newspaper company, have uncovered numerous scandals in the past, and is currently working on Chinese plots in the United States. | neutral |
After a Lewinsky-caused hiatus from health covers, Newsweek returns to its favorite subject. | Newsweek favored health over Lewinsky when deciding what to cover. | contradiction |
Other fragments and versions will add to what Callahan has assembled, not overwrite it. | Fragments and versions will add to the thing that Callahan has assembled | entailment |
It is one of the most cherished questions in Romantic poetry. | The described is a question of German philosophy. | contradiction |
Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force. | The troops trained to fight a war in the Middle East. | neutral |
Neither Simon nor Lyons likes Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work ( Steward is one of five dramas about his own kinfolk), however. | Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's work is not well liked by either Simon or Lyons. | entailment |
When Dorothy Parker lamented that I hate writing, but I love having written, she was expressing the sort of routine tradeoff between current costs and future benefits that fits right into the traditional economic framework. | Dorothy was a famouse author | neutral |
There's a name for this personnel It's called Pass the Trash. | The name is Feed the Seed | contradiction |
First, why would allowing the interplay of free-market forces imply that stadiums, movie houses, and other mass entertainment centers would become dominated by wealthy people? | A free market is the best option. | neutral |
Clinton claims to have known nothing about the Chinese plans. | Clinton claims to have known about the Chinese plans. | contradiction |
The administration's spin is that demands and conditions are the opposite of negotiation. | The administration felt that the demands and conditions were entirely justified under the same standards they applied to themselves. | contradiction |
After all, they don't offer employees car insurance. | Just between us, the head honcho told me they don't offer car insurance because their employees are too stupid to drive | neutral |
Buying a new tie would be fun, not an obsessive, central, tail-wagging-the-dog-of-life activity. | Buying a new tie is fun. | entailment |
When a black wanted to buy a franchise to establish a numbers bank, he went to Bumpy. | Bumpy refused to help those who were interested in franchising. | contradiction |
But are the jocks serving Bradley well? | Bradley is involved with football players. | neutral |
When agencies lose major accounts, they often fire nearly everyone involved with the account. | The people working on the account that was lost saw this coming and already had interviews at different companies set up. | neutral |
This couplet sends us back to an already famous passage in Omeros , in which women loading coal are compared to a line of ants--and so on. | A famous passage in Omeros compares woman loading coal to a line of ants. | entailment |
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