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This question generated, by far, a record number of similarlies all focused on Pat Buchanan's politics. | A lot the queries were repeats and concerned Pat Buchanan's stands on issues. | entailment |
As Aeschylus wrote of Zeus in Prometheus Bound , He cannot fly from Fate. | The Greek tragedy written by Aeschylus has been translated more than one hundred times. | neutral |
A professor of English at the University of Mainz, Germany, believes she has figured out what William Shakespeare really looked like. | People wonder what William Shakespeare looked like. | entailment |
Newsweek 's cover story explores how schools handle learning disabilities. | The article in Newsweek has been in the works for over a week. | neutral |
A capitalist, of whom there are one or two among us, I hear tell, might bear this in mind when targeting malt liquor, fast food, and sneaker commercials. | All fast food commercials are made by a capitalist. | neutral |
The explanation is partly the frog-in-hot-water phenomenon (he'll jump out if you drop him in boiling water, but not if you put him in cold water and slowly heat it to boiling). | The explanation is partly the dog-in-hot-water phenomenon. | contradiction |
To Scalia, however, the idea that judicial power responds to the demands of the time merely proves that there have always been willful judges who bend the law to their wishes. | Scalia has no legal opinions | contradiction |
In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action. | Congressional authorization was needed by Republican presidents. | entailment |
Dll stands for dynamic-link library, and .dll files are small chunks of computer code that are intended to be shared by more than one application. | Applications can not share information | contradiction |
Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics suggests so. | Computational Dynamics' abstract nature has made it difficult to verify any theories with the confidence to declare them as laws. | contradiction |
However, they should not be punished without due process in the name of 'national security' or 'protection of citizens' lives. | They should be punished, at all costs. | contradiction |
The one extracurricular venue where I run into a lot of Asian-Americans is a Very Serious music school in Scarsdale, the suburban town in the New York area that (because of its famous school system) has the most name-brand appeal for transferred Japanese executives. | A lot of Asian-Americans live and work in Scarsdale. | neutral |
From home, I call my office three or four times a day. | I call my office more often than many do, when they are off from work. | entailment |
The Clinton health-care plan is a case in point. | The health-care plan is from Obama. | contradiction |
He permits little discussion--he doesn't think it changes anyone's mind--and races through votes. | Hes open minded on other topics. | neutral |
He was tall, charismatic, with piercing blue eyes that made Monica weak inside--and, best of all, he was the most powerful man on Earth! | Monica was attracted to the man. | entailment |
Excuse me, but who is going to raise such an army (raise in the sense used by parents)? | The author is concerned that the army may not meet moral standards. | neutral |
Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later. | Saddam's invasion of Iran and occupation of Kuwait did not help his campaign. | entailment |
Would the story have broken if not for the Web? | The author wrote several articles that had to do with the story. | neutral |
Newsweek berates NATO for its obfuscation of civilian casualties. | Nato who was responsible for obscuring civilian casualties was called out by the press. | entailment |
I also watched a boy in Lucca try to run over pigeons with his bike. | A boy in Lucca tried to run over pigeons with his bike. | entailment |
Individuals' claims to their wealth and income must of course be balanced by the need to finance governmental activities, no matter how few and inconsequential they may be. | Government may punish individuals if they do not finance their government. | neutral |
As Noyce and Moore did before him, Grove led Intel brilliantly without making it dependent upon him. | Grove was known to lead Intel in the right direction. | entailment |
But in both cases, the feds can help. | The feds would be useless in these cases. | contradiction |
I believe that your hearts will go on. | I don't trust you to get over it. | contradiction |
Then every share of Daimler-Benz stock sold between 1950 and 1980 sells at a discount reflecting that expectation. | Stock of Daimler-Benz is purchased mainly through the use of options contracts. | neutral |
Death of a Salesman , his greatest play, is about the devastating effects of professional failure. | Death of a Salesman is a unheard of play | contradiction |
As any 10-year-old knows (and game theorists can now elaborately prove), three-person secrets are particularly troublesome in this regard, because nobody can ever pinpoint which of the other two might have cheated. | When three individuals know a secret, it's guaranteed to remain secret. | contradiction |
The WP apparently decided that enough time had passed to entitle it to publish an article looking at the Kennedy/Bono deaths' lighter side, about wacky fatalities caused by trees. | The WP told a lot of these stories. | neutral |
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 service the hotel provides is expensive | neutral |
This triathlon kills Churchill, who wins the defeat-totalitarianism contest but flunks the liberation-and-justice contest. | Churchill won the defeat-totalitarianism contest. | entailment |
There is only one airline the Shopping Avenger believes understands the fundamentals of customer service, and that is Southwest Airlines. | Southwest Airlines is the best airline at customer service. | neutral |
Now that consumers know that there is a fluid aftermarket for video games, they are more likely to go into a store and buy one of these games for full price on the day it comes out. | No one is interested in buying a video game that has already been played by another girl. | contradiction |
A Palestinian state is a certainty, according to an article, but sovereignty will be a sham. | Other states may encroach on Palestine's authority, but Palestine's efforts for a state of their own may bear fruit. | neutral |
Somehow I doubt that Bill Gates thinks of Dell as parasitic because its computers run only on Windows. | Dell only runs on Windows. | entailment |
Denis Diderot has much to say about dress in the theater, and Honore de Balzac wrote an incisive treatise on neckties, among his many essays on elegance. | Denis has strong opinions about theater outfits. | entailment |
Anyone who knows, please feel free to leak it to me. | I don't want anyone to share confidential information. | contradiction |
So given sufficient foresight, the prospect of a 1980 punishment hurts the 1950 owners, even if they sell in the interim. | The 1950 owners are owners of seomthing worth investing in. | neutral |
But it was the grass-roots opposition to KYC, sparked in part by the Libertarian Party, whose protest Web site steered 171,268 e-mail complaints from netizens to the FDIC, that elevated the subject to the national agenda. | The Libertarian Party had a successful campaign. | neutral |
But mostly there is the spectacle of technique brought to bear on form; and although this is a minimal definition of art, there is nothing minimal about the results. | The results of using this technique end up maximizing the effect on the viewer. | entailment |
In one way, though, it is more exact. | It is less precise | contradiction |
Reducing very high tax rates can, at the very least, encourage less tax evasion and avoidance. | Lowering exorbitant tax rates can lead to less tax evasion | entailment |
News accounts agree that Arafat has finally shed his image as a terrorist and is now being honored by the White House not only as a virtual head of state but as the indispensable player in the peace process. | Arafat is still the same person. | neutral |
A Time story says the electric-car movement is running out of juice. | According to a major magazine electric cars are running out of gas. | entailment |
Some of his Republican colleagues dislike him for selfish reasons--they envy his popularity and resent his outsider stances. | Democrats dislike him too, but for other reasons | neutral |
In Today's Papers for June 5, Scott Shuger | Scott Shuger was in the papers on June 5th. | entailment |
To be sure, the Army's program insists, though more vaguely than people admit, that affirmative-action beneficiaries must meet the same minimum qualifications as their white counterparts. | 43 percent of American active duty forces are minorities | neutral |
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. | It is designed to be usable by individuals with arthritis or hand injuries | entailment |
Russian soldiers will shell Grozny to its foundations and fly their flags, but they won't engage in street-to-street It's too bloody. | The Russians loved to engage in street-to-street combat, or urban warfare, because it was the least costly in terms of lives. | contradiction |
The amount is small for Cramer but large for the editor of Slate . TheStreet.com competes, to some extent, with Slate 's sister MSN site MoneyCentral and even, to a lesser extent, with Slate itself. | TheStreet.com and MoneyCentral perform similar work in regard to subject. | entailment |
They responded by pushing economic regulation from the state to the federal level. | They took regulation power from the federal level and gave it to the state level. | contradiction |
But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage. | The gentlemen agree on controversial weddings. | neutral |
Other companies, such as Cognisoft, take this same approach to corporate intranets (internal networks), hoping that push technology will be even more useful in distributing the right information to the right employees. | Cognisoft hopes employees take companies' useful technology | neutral |
The Nixon Analogy: Why the Flytrap-Watergate comparison will backfire. | The Nixon comparison will backfire. | entailment |
A firestorm of feminist controversy already surrounds some of these works--one side contends that these are refreshingly de-idealized nudes, the other side responds that the unusual poses and aggressive use of pastel are further degradations of women--but you wouldn't know it from the placid audio tour, or from the pri... | The feminist artist is Jewish | neutral |
Why the willingness to weaken his major substantive achievement? | His major achievement is unthreatened | contradiction |
Sure, the FDA's efforts are done in the name of kids. | The FDA's efforts were done in the name of female kids only. | neutral |
Capital Legislator Want More Facts on Daylight Savings Time from Mexico's News . A close second is Why Farm Sheep at All? | Mexican News has documented facts on Daylight Savings opinions. | entailment |
Considering how hard it was for the extraordinary Frank McCourt to learn how to teach, one has to wonder whether individual teachers can really measure their own progress. | Learning how to teach and measuring its progress is difficult. | entailment |
Esme, played by Judi Dench, is an actress who lives for the theater. | Judi Dench portrayed Esme as a singer who lives for the stage. | contradiction |
Even if he remains uncorrupted, the president will be immersed in the concerns only of the wealthy and will lose all feeling for the lives of everyone else. | No president would immerse themselves in the wealthy's concerns because it would forever ruin them politically. | contradiction |
' All of President Clinton's untruths, all of his lying under oath, if you will, about an extramarital relationship does not subvert the Constitution (Schumer). | The Constitution is speculative in certain cases. | entailment |
The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times withhold the story from their first editions but include it on Page One of the home-delivery editions. | The Washington Post includes the story on their first editions | contradiction |
The overlapping dialogue and squealing Cuban-African music heard over tinny-sounding radios seems meant to induce a migraine to accompany the seasickness. | The audio quality of the radios was magnificent. | contradiction |
It is certainly not because he failed to get most of his policy proposals adopted. | It wasn't because he failed. | entailment |
The cover story journeys to HMO hell. | The story talks about how easy it is to deal with HMOs. | contradiction |
That is, we're paralyzed by the repeated idea that his election is inevitable. | The idea that his election is inevitable has moved people to take action. | contradiction |
Wolfe doesn't see himself as primarily a satirist. | Wolfe is strictly interested in writing satire. | contradiction |
And it was Morris' ideas that kept Clinton on track even after his--Morris'--downfall. | Morris' ideas caused Clinton to fail. | contradiction |
No offense meant. | The person who said the allegedly offensive statement did so purposely. | contradiction |
(Formerly the state sport was catching and returning runaway slaves.) | The state rewarded the catching and returning of runaway slaves. | neutral |
His technique is too methodical and slow, she said. | His technique is not known for being sloppy | entailment |
A basic tenet of biology used to be that the energy requirements of all living things are met ultimately by the sun--mainly through plants converting sunlight into more easily digestible forms of energy. | all things start with the energy from the sun. | entailment |
This December, it will happen Tens of thousands of children will hound their parents into buying charming Dalmatian pups for Christmas. | This year hasn't reached December yet. | entailment |
New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness. | John Simon recommended that people see the play more than once. | contradiction |
This, he contends, is a symbol of the decline of community spirit and the rise of atomistic individualism. | This is the main reason the community is on a decline | neutral |
George Mitchell has volunteered to act as a liaison between the Pentagon and Mohammed Al Fayed in the dispute over British and American intelligence about the crash . | A dispute between the British and American intelligence resulted because of the accident. | entailment |
And the United States is also leading the creation of new international the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, the North Atlantic Free Trade Association, the World Trade Organization, the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, and the Chemical Weapons Convention. | The US leads the world in international trade buildings. | neutral |
By then Gore will be campaigning seriously, distancing himself from Clinton, and running macho ads; Bradley will have defined his big ideas and endured the inevitable media backlash to his current rave notices; and the voters will actually be paying attention. | Bradley is currently disrespected in the media, getting panned. | contradiction |
While it challenged Twin Peaks in obscure plot turns, it was ever entertaining, and the first spot I'd stop at on your site. | Your site sucks. | contradiction |
Reporters rely on neighbors to flesh out the characters of killers, but what, really, do neighbors know? | Reporters flesh out the characters of killers based on information they recieve from police. | contradiction |
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. | Workers in South Korea and Taiwan make more than American workers. | contradiction |
I then launched Xwindows. | I launched windows | entailment |
But this letter is long enough, possibly too long for the format, so I will leave discussion of Lemann's attempt to sum up to the next letter. | The letter is over 10 pages | neutral |
Prudie must confess that your advice is a tad more constructive than her own. | Prudie has a helpful advice. | entailment |
He was killed in a dispute over timber by a Pamunkey Indian from Virginia who would have been considered black in Virginia but escaped prosecution because he was considered white in Mississippi. | She was killed by a Pamunkey Indian | contradiction |
Top aides from recent administrations are The Secret Service never lets the president escape its protection. | The president frequently tries to escape The Secret Service | neutral |
Nero was emperor until 70 A.D. | Nero was a good emperor. | neutral |
Time 's mistake, we think, was its stinting view of history. | All of history has been viewed frugally from the passing of time. | neutral |
Eszterhas is reminiscent of Playboy 's Hugh They share the same exaggerated sense of importance, the same pontificating humorlessness about their ridiculous jobs. | Eszterhas reminds me of Mr. Hefner as he is an obnoxious blowhard with thoughts only of himself. | entailment |
Invented in 1993: After a big interception, Packers safety Leroy Butler . The populist Leap is particularly suited to the NFL's only publicly owned team, the zealously beloved Pack. | Pack is the NFL's only publicly owned team. | entailment |
There isn't much room in Schor's schema for even the interesting curlicues of spending culture, such as the joy in finding a bargain or personal variances in taste (e.g. | Schors plan discards important details. | entailment |
The preceding images are not from Beyond Impressionism (online reproduction of art from the Degas exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago is forbidden. | There is a Degas exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. | entailment |
Many on both sides anticipate that the Democratic primary of 2000 will be a showdown, with Dick Gephardt representing the old Dems and Al Gore standing in for the new. | Though, through the eye of the needle shall go one candidate, one shall later become Secretary of state under President Biden. | neutral |
In the Times of London Monday, Clarke was quoted as saying, There is no truth whatsoever in the allegations that the Sunday Mirror are making against me, and they are very hurtful. | Clarke denies the allegations made by the Sunday Mirror. | entailment |
Britain's Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has dubbed Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna the best song lyrics ever written. | Joanna, the folk song, is based on Dylan's Mother, showing that she was the apple of his eye. | neutral |
That fragmented system without oversight had its deviance (not all doctors provided good care) and cost (the doctors drove up the bills). | Physicians dropped the prices. | contradiction |
Furthermore she wrote, scathingly, about class, and Americans have never liked to hear about class. | People from the United States like to hear about class. | contradiction |
Now they admit they were wrong. | They confessed their mistake. | entailment |
Henry The Unreality of Being (The Museum of American Folk Art). | A great portion of classic American Folk Art exists in private collections. | neutral |
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