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Insurers would then have to cater to their needs.
Insurers can ignore the needs of others
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When they married 20 years ago, the Globe reports, people said it wouldn't last.
They married 240 months ago
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The movie is a passable entertainment--call it The Half Monty . It has standard issue (but funny) farcical sight gags and a score of panpipes to provide the requisite undercurrent of Celtic melancholy.
This show contains some almost nudity, giving a bit of bang for your buck.
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No, because this is something that's private.
We should not violate privacy with this situation.
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But to this woman you are not replaceable at any price.
This woman thinks your replaceable by another woman just not by money.
neutral
A piece reports on a new treat for yogurt in a tube.
Yogurt in a tube is a new treat features in the piece report.
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Wore a rag on his head.
The rag hangs from the man's belt.
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All American reporters care about is Monica Lewinsky, and we're trying to get away from that, one U.S. official told me.
Monica Lewinsky is a hot top among reporters.
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For most American companies today, success depends on selling more of your product next year than you did this year.
A company must move a lot of product to be considered lucrative
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My software definitely does not learn by its mistakes!
There is a way for users to manually fix problems with the software
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Doctors have given a generation of such children normal sex organs (i.e.
Doctors help children
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The paper declared, A smile costs nothing, but it brightens up the moment for the one who flashes it, and the one who watches.
The paper also wrote about the effect of laughter
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When you couple that reality with an overly narrow definition of shareholder value, you end up with a corporate world that must privilege the next quarter over the next decade.
Shareholders are valued too greatly.
neutral
We wonder if they, too, would feel uncomfortable with our differences made so plainly apparent.
We wonder if they would feel uncomfortable
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Although it hasn't dominated Seattle's skyline since the '80s, when the economic boom sprouted a host of taller buildings, it remains the city's symbol of progress.
Seattle's skyline has not changed since the 80's.
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And if he gets this balancing act wrong, he must pander even more furiously to make it up.
He must accommodate his equilibrium greatly if his act becomes unstable.
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At this point, I imagine that readers have three objections.
It is imagined that the readers have three objections.
entailment
Jerry Brown was sworn in as mayor of Oakland, Calif.
Oakland, Calif. swore in Jerry Brown as mayor in 1999.
neutral
Croatia analysts surmise that HDZ is keeping Tudjman alive as a campaign strategy.
Tudjman is still alive as a campaign strategy.
entailment
McCartney's album occasions re-evaluations of the most mainstream Beatle--turns out he's not the empty tunesmith he seemed in the '70s and '80s.
McCartney is perceived in a different way compared to the 70's and '80s
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If granny needed an operation, there went the tuition for junior's college.
They are strapped for cash
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Equity options themselves aren't the problem--they have legitimate uses--and without the ability to lock in positions that equity options offer, certain folks might not be in the equity market in the first place.
More people could enter the equity market if equity options were gotten rid of.
contradiction
That assumption may or may not be correct.
We are certain of the preciseness of the assumption.
contradiction
A sidebar says Monica combed Gennifer Flowers' autobiography for tips on how to seduce the president.
Gennifer's book gave the president clues on how to seduce Monica.
contradiction
Everyone knows these troops are trained for combat and can be quickly converted into an invading force.
The soldiers are unskilled privates straight out of bootcamp.
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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.
They were on a train when they received the news
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Lied about it to everyone .
Unintentionally mislead everyone listening.
neutral
Scientists were once ostracized for holding religious beliefs but can now worship without embarrassment.
Scientists are killed for believing a religion
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I also watched a boy in Lucca try to run over pigeons with his bike.
The boy does not like pigeons.
neutral
If only there were creative writing schools in Heaven, or failing that, editors, we could hope that Jesus would learn how to improve on awful sentences like that.
The sentence is flawless
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Of Decter's comments, the less said the better.
Decter made multiple comments.
entailment
If seasonal retailers like L.L.Bean
L.L.Bean is a very popular seasonal retailer.
neutral
Earlier, Novak actually ask ed Carlson if he could interrupt!
Novak wanted to interrupt Ed Carlson.
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The use of mind-altering drugs has probably increased as Huxley foresaw, although probably not to the extent that he foresaw.
Huxley was known to overexaggerate.
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The man has the intellectual honesty of a hired gun.
The author doesn't trust the man.
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But the studio system in Hollywood disappeared while studio execs remained important as deal makers, and the same could happen in advertising.
Studio leadership was ultimately unable to survive, losing the chance to become deal makers.
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Both haggard and elfin, she moves in and out of sanity, now distraught with grief, now giddy with superior insight.
She is consistently in a state of sanity
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The general principle is that these questions, unfortunately, are going to be asked.
There are questions that occur to people.
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Or Caltech on Top (Until We Fiddle With Rules Again).
The rules are unchangeable.
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It's really cool to be postmodern and hip
Hip people are unpopular
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Entrepreneurs now use cheap new technology, such as remote-operated vehicles, to salvage artifacts from ancient wrecks.
Governments have a salvage crew, regaining their lost items, getting the best of both worlds, using new tech to get lost national treasure while grabbing things lost by other countries.
neutral
On Meet the Press , White House Chief of Staff John Podesta We're not negotiating, Tim.
John Podesta is taking a hard line stance on multiple bullet points.
neutral
As Felicia, the coltish Elaine Cassidy manages to look both luminous and unformed, and Bob Hoskins gives Hiditch's bland homilies so much subtext he made me think of the Paris Opera House in the Phantom of the Opera : basement under basement under basement down to the dungeons.
Elain Cassidy is a terrible actress
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Please tell Do you see an end to human suffering?
Human suffering is currently ongoing
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Smith's decision this year to push a measure in the House that would spend as much birth-control money as the president asked might seem like progress.
Smith did not push a measure in the House to support the President's requested Birth control money because people rebelled.
contradiction
The rice was light and cooked to perfection, and the vegetables were nicely steamed in a complex sauce that blended the subtle flavors of curry, coconut milk, and basil.
The rice was wet and heavy and the vegetables were barely cooked.
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Sheen recently overdosed on cocaine and methamphetamine, the 32-year-old actor's third overdose, according to the Star . A few months earlier, Sheen's father, actor Martin Sheen, and other family members tried to get Charlie to go to the Promises rehab center (where Brynn Hartman had reportedly been treated), but he re...
Sheen overdosed on drugs.
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An accompanying survey ranks the 100 biggest health Fallon Community comes out on top.
The survey consistently ranks Fallon Community among the best in the nation.
neutral
Participation in the new currency requires nations to cut their national debt below 3 percent of GDP.
Nations must have a national debt below 3 percent of GDP in order to participate in the new currency.
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Or, better yet, Mr. Goldberg, you could watch!
Mr. Goldberg is greedy
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We laugh and have great fun together and share many of the same interests.
We have little in common and are bored with each other.
contradiction
Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his [Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe.
Exley is a planet in another universe
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Today, Thompson is part Beavis, part whore.
Thompson has two strong parts to their personality.
entailment
But giving drove him near to nervous collapse.
He was overly generous to his own detriment.
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Well, I don't think I was running a laboratory, I think that's a misconception.
I believe it is correct to think that I was running a laboratory.
contradiction
Every scene is weighted, emotionally significant, resplendent with the thick texture of feeling and history, writes New York 's Denby.
New York's Denby is a film critic.
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Their actual relationship was more complicated.
Their relationship could not be easily defined or labeled.
neutral
Remember, the last guy to argue for a distinction between ideology and competence was Michael Dukakis.
Michael Dukakis argued about ideology.
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Scientists say they have found the source of HIV . They traced HIV-1, the virus that has caused most of the AIDS epidemic, to a related virus carried by an African chimpanzee subspecies.
HIV-1, the virus that caused most of the AIDS epidemic, was traced to bats.
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In the case of Microsoft, Blumenthal of Connecticut appears to have won the coveted prize, managing to eclipse Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, who is chairman of the NAAG's antitrust committee, and New York's Vacco, who heads the consumer committee.
Microsoft was given a large fine
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That he exaggerated the power of biology, failed to deal with love, and perhaps overextended the protective umbrella of tolerance is beyond doubt.
That he exaggerated the power of biology is beyond doubt.
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He gropes female guests, watches porn, drinks monstrously, smokes more, and uses drugs.
He is addicted to drugs and harasses all women.
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Listen, I really don't want to criticize.
I don't want to get anyone in trouble.
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Clinton has no such out.
Clinton has every right to do whatever he wants.
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After smoking a pack of Camels a day for a dozen years, I gave it up in 1985.
The speaker continues to smoke til this very day.
contradiction
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 ...
Competition lowers prices
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Most praise her for being able to hold her own, as opposed to noticing any genuine musical ability, and note that the album is far more pop-oriented than the drum 'n' bass and jungle she spins live.
She sings opera live without an orchestra.
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(OK, that was in the Times the next day, not actually a part of the series, and I may oversimplify.)
The event written in the Times was a special occasion and news-breaking, causing them to write a special issue outside of their normal series.
neutral
If Chernomyrdin succeeds in convincing Milosevic to accept enough of NATO's demands to guarantee some sort of deal, he will go down in domestic political history as the man who sold out Serbia.
Chernomydrin is trying to convince Milosevic to accept NATO's demands.
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Did Stevenson speak with any of the fans with whose hopes he claimed to be so familiar?
They wondered if Jacobson spoke with any of the fans.
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(She'd better get cracking.)
She needs to get going.
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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.
Chatterbox resigned in the middle of the meeting, deciding to cut their losses and let sleeping dogs lie.
contradiction
Heston has all the physical equipment--brain, voice, good looks--but not the hunger.
Heston has the hunger.
contradiction
An item skewers Donald Trump's Scrooge-like philanthropic record.
Trump has a history of giving more to charity than any other president.
contradiction
They were pitiful even by microbial standards.
They were tiny like microbes.
neutral
Finally, Pollitt and Sullivan are disappointed that Unauthorized
Pollitt and Sullivan share the same emotions and feelings about unauthorized.
entailment
Pulitzer Prizes, for example, go to books and newspapers but not to magazines.
Pulitzer Prizes go to magazines
contradiction
Yankees, Cubs vs.
It’s a baseball game
neutral
Do you know the saying, We're all grown-ups here?
The author asks about the saying a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
contradiction
The other, largely neglected Imply that the competition, as currently configured, is improbably upscale.
The competition is very doable and easy to achieve.
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It just means they're really, really serious about you.
You're a joke to them
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If after three months of age your baby wakes at night and wants to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem.
If, after three months of age, your baby wakes at night wanting to be fed, she is developing a sleep problem.
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Reno opposed some of these policies internally but had too little influence to stop them.
The policies were stopped
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Based on this assessment, NATO has kept ground forces out of Kosovo, allowing atrocities to continue, and has kept its planes high above Serbian anti-aircraft batteries, limiting our pilots' ability to distinguish refugees from Serb forces on the ground.
The assessment also suggested that NATO do some things differently in the future.
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The question is, said Alice, whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.
Alice believes that words cannot be defined more than one way.
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He looked at her and said, Monday morning.
She was confused by the comment.
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Whenever viewers hear of the treaty again, the first thing they're likely to think of is that map--just as the phrase Clinton health plan came to trigger the picture of Harry and Louise being denied the right to choose their own doctor.
Images are an important part of memory.
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Before long, we can expect to hear retirement-averse conservatives making the rest of the fine arguments against term limits.
Workaholic Republicans want to work until they die.
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I want to have a fairly simple wedding, but there are two people I can't imagine getting married without (not counting the groom).
I want as few people as possible at the wedding.
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These days, over the instrumental break, she's prone to toss in a homily about world peace and how, whether we're in America, Bosnia, Rwanda, the Middle East; are young, old, black, white, gay, straight, or transsexual, we're all still people, people who need people.
Her program involved an instrumental break, which they are not doing anymore.
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He arrived at a convenient time in the tobacco He had no strong feelings about the evil weed, and he became the tobacco scourge only when Republican leaders asked him to shepherd the bill through the Senate.
He hated the tobacco industry, and felt that all tobacco products were evil.
contradiction
Some even think that while Internet competition may drive prices down initially, prices will rise as sellers are matched with buyers and the market clears.
The initial rush could be an absolute gold mine.
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The political spin is that Bauer will be the Pat Buchanan of 2000: He lacks experience in elected office and is too conservative for most voters (he plans to make anti-abortion legislation a cornerstone of his campaign), but he will have plenty of diehard donors, volunteers, and caucus-goers from the religious right.
Bauer is well known to voters due to his many years in office.
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McCain's media cheering section neglects its favorite candidate's lack of coherence on tax and health-care policy.
McCain's fans avoided talking about his poor tax and health-care policies.
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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).
Michelangelo is the artist who created His Drawings from Windsor Castle
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Coulter argues ad Clinton's China satellite policy was treason.
Clinton's satellite China policy, Coulter argues, was treason.
entailment
In 19 th -century Britain, this tough love helped keep the divorce rate near zero even amid the stark status inequality of a modern nation.
The divorce rate was near zero in 19th-century Britain.
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Could we curb Milosevic's aggression through diplomacy rather than bombing?
Milosevic is aggressive.
entailment
He makes TV commercials in London.
The TV commercials that he made were not very popular in London.
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In the Washington Post , Archer accuses Democrats of supporting big government on autopilot and argues that the cuts epitomize compassionate conservatism.
Archer wrote in the New York Times to support the democrats,
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