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Over the following week or so I tracked the 20 to 30 auctions for Unreal that were going on, and I eventually won a copy for $18.
A copy of Unreal could auction for more than $18
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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 not part of the lexicon.
contradiction
He is, as one writer put it, the efficient ethnic cleanser.
No one has ever referred to him as an efficient ethnic cleanser.
contradiction
The piece finds the Supreme Court justice bitter at his lot and deeply suspicious of the white world.
The Supreme Court Justice is satisfied with his lot.
contradiction
5) The superstars are eating up all the available money and crowding out new talent.
New talent is being crowded out by money going to the superstars
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Perhaps he's next on the FTC's hit list.
No one would want to be on the FTC's list.
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His apology, June 12: If I knew it was like a religious-type deal, I would have never said it.
An apology was made on June 12th.
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Living poets will continue to be eligible as well.
Poets that are alive are able to participate.
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I suppose that there are people who feel happiness or sorrow or jealousy or triumph directly, without any combination of words, either remembered or made up for the purpose.
Past memories and imaginative stories serve no function for human beings.
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Or the ad when the Wagnerian soprano (G.W.)
The ad uses both a Wagnerian soprano and an alto
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e) Some or all of the above.
All of the above was one of the choices available.
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The product could make the blind more independent.
This product could improve the eyesight.
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John points out that by 1828, only 36 years after Congress passed the Post Office Act of 1792, the American postal system had almost twice as many offices as the postal system in Great Britain and over five times as many offices as the postal system in France.
By 1828 the American postal system had nearly tripled in size since its inception.
neutral
In the 1980s, Kodak opened a major research center in Tokyo, staffed with Japanese engineers, and started a joint venture in which Canon made copiers sold under the Kodak name.
In the 1908s, Kodak closed a major research center in Tokyo.
contradiction
In the United States, where inflation and the budget deficit have receded for the time being, vulgar Keynesianism has recently staged an impressive comeback.
inflation and the budget deficit increased for the time being.
contradiction
Human nature puts Clinton at a disadvantage in this debate.
Despite the disadvantage, Clinton won the debate.
neutral
Providing escape routes from the inner city may make the ghettos worse by depriving them of their most competent residents.
When competent residents leave the ghettos, it makes those neighborhoods worse.
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What's more, the latter reads more like it slugs a story about the Amalgamated Interior Decorators and Salon Stylists.
The latter is unable to be read due to encryption.
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Its findings have armed Francis Collins in his crusade against genetic redlining.
Francis Collins has a crusade against genetic redlining.
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Nevertheless--the nevertheless paragraph ineluctably follows the to be sure one--it would be a mistake to try to turn back the clock.
The first paragraph has better facts.
neutral
I'd just like to point out, in case you were planning a satirical musical comedy about the crisis in question, something you can do to a song from West Side Story : Korea, I've just met a place called Korea!
There aren't any songs from West Side Story.
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Slate BiasServer TM applies this concept to the magazine You'll register your views just once, and Slate will thereafter recognize your browser and serve up opinion and analysis that reconfirm your prejudices.
Slate is a magazine.
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Allergy treatment is a burgeoning sector of the economy.
Allergy treatment is flourishing.
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(Isn't there some high-tech way to fly him from class to class, perhaps on Boeing's new Delta III rocket; you know, once it stops malfunctioning.)
Boeing has already begun production on a Delta IV rocket.
neutral
How do we tell them to get out of our house without causing family problems?
The people in their house are unrelated to them
contradiction
In March, he dismissed Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin and replaced him with a 35-year-old political neophyte, Sergei Kiriyenko.
He replaced an experienced PM with a political rookie with no experience at negotiations.
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Microsoft Senior Vice President Bill Neukom added, We've always competed fairly, and we will continue to do that.
Bill Neukom worked his way to the top of Microsoft.
neutral
Yet, we do cruel things to animals--smart animals, affectionate animals, cute animals--all the time.
there are countless smart, loving, good looking animals harmed all the time
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If it hits, there's a big syndication upside.
If it hits, forget a big syndication upside.
contradiction
Doctors have given a generation of such children normal sex organs (i.e.
Doctors donate time to help children
neutral
Like many NBA old-timers, Bird deplores the MTVification of the league.
Bird is considered an NBA old-timer.
entailment
Affirmative action is likely to fail when it is merely a special preference bestowed upon those who have the right parents, whether right means educational pedigree or skin color.
Affirmative Action is a success if preference is based on only skin color.
contradiction
But for the past month, and especially last week, there has been a kinder, gentler Monica, an innocent trapped in a scandal not of her own making.
Monica is trapped in a scandal.
entailment
He misses some of the lightness and agility demanded by florid passages.
He could always write florid prose if he wanted to.
neutral
And those are just the towns along Lake Como.
Lake Como remains uninhabitable.
contradiction
Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human.
There is a cloned human in Belgem.
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First, they should deliver maximum moral benefit at minimum practical cost.
They need to be the best for the community without harming others.
entailment
Is it true you have no penis?
I don't have a penis.
neutral
He sat next to Johnny Carson and in his helium-pitched foreign man voice told jokes without punch lines (Her cooking ees so bad--ees terrible) and did non-impressionistic impressions
His impressions were non-impressionistic.
entailment
Please, do you have an answer for these well-wishers that would not require giving them private and personal information?
Can you answer these well-wishers without giving them private and personal information but still keep them happy?
neutral
His wild, self-aggrandizing public statements made both of them a laughingstock, and the Vanity Fair photo shoot he arranged sullied Lewinsky's image almost as much as a Penthouse spread would have.
The photo shoot was handled well
contradiction
On the other hand, Fish never claimed to be right.
Fish was insistent on his infallability.
contradiction
Patents can even be held on the genetic blueprints of various forms of life.
All patent requests are denied
contradiction
In the '60s and '70s, rumors of Sinatra's Mob ties were family entertainment.
Sinatra was an average unknown person.
contradiction
For example, I've heard many agents complain of having to revoke the parole of guys who failed a drug test but who were not, in the agent's best judgment, doing anything more than getting high.
Ruthless agents delight in revoking parole of weed-smokers
contradiction
There's been a very long history in society of problems with alcohol.
Alcohol is the number one cause of problems for society.
neutral
3) Fragmentary intelligence suggests that China wanted to channel money to Clinton's campaign.
China channeled money to the Clinton campaign.
neutral
Death of a Salesman , his greatest play, is about the devastating effects of professional failure.
Death of a Salesman is a play
entailment
I can't in good conscience argue that you shouldn't field a team.
I feel that you shouldn't field a team.
contradiction
Didion, in other words, has written a fast-paced story, not just her usual series of fractured stories.
Critics love Didion's fast-paced story
neutral
We always knew they had it in them.
We had eternal knowledge that they had it in them
entailment
. The reason Jews have an injunction against portraying God is that Neanderthals cannot draw.
People of Jewish faith have high standards for the depiction of their God.
entailment
To some extent, Miller's fate is that of the Broadway stage.
Miller is likely bound for the stage.
entailment
Time 's culture-heavy lineup includes Tiger Woods, Rosie O'Donnell, Babyface Edmonds, Don Imus, Trent Reznor, and Dilbert (of the comic strip).
Time has featured a lot of culturally important people
entailment
Many News Quiz responses were rejected by Slate 's e-mail server.
The Slate's e-mail server was very selective on what they accepted.
entailment
The allegation, reported in Newsweek , is that when Willey met alone with Clinton at the White House in 1993 to ask for a paying job, Clinton made a pass at her--a charge denied by the president's attorney.
According to Newsweek Clinton inappropriately touched Wiley when she met with him at the White House in 1993.
neutral
So when you hear all this business about cuts, let me caution you that that is not what is going on.
The rumors around the cuts are true.
contradiction
Preventing developers from adding features is not as easy as it sounds.
Preventing others from adding things to this is tough.
entailment
If you missed the link on why conservatives who want to eliminate the NEA don't make the point that there is a multibillion dollar arts subsidy embedded in the tax code, click .
A multibillion dollar apportionment for cultural functions and works exists in the tax code.
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Rudy plans to consolidate his lead in the burbs by pushing school vouchers, while Hillary will tap into health-care frustrations and make the election a national contest.
Rudy has no plan to acquire votes.
contradiction
It costs virtually the same amount to produce, no matter how many people use it, and no matter how heavy the use.
Production costs are not effect by eventual use after its been completed.
neutral
In the closing weeks of the presidential campaign, Bob Dole made a big fuss about Clinton's refusal to categorically rule out pardons for former associates caught up in Whitewater.
Clinton did not rule out pardons for those involved in Whitewater.
entailment
Dr. Arroway (Foster) explains herself to Joss (McConaughey).
Foster and McConaughey work together regularly.
neutral
Perhaps he's next on the FTC's hit list.
He is off the FTC's list.
contradiction
But if you're an optimist and expect to practice future self-control, you'll be inclined to save your money and pass it along into your own future good hands.
Saving money outside of a bank is a good idea.
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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 thinks that you should have you wife read the letter.
contradiction
Impossible, argued Albright and He will not stop until he is forced to do so.
He needed to be stopped or people would be hurt.
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As American multinationals ship their production overseas, the likelihood of getting business to support an import tariff (which would now tax their own imports) becomes equally small.
If overseas profits are high enough, the tariffs become irrelevant.
neutral
Orrin Hatch about the balanced-budget amendment.
The amendment is unbalanced.
contradiction
The Degas family (which sometimes changed their name to de Gas to suggest noble roots) came to prominence through the same international banking connections the Jewish financiers they deplored had.
Their importance was the result of political ties
contradiction
From an erratic performance on the David Letterman show to a violent confrontation with a boyfriend to the latest, her odd behavior at the Cannes Film Festival.
The recent weird outburst is not typical or normal for her.
neutral
Of course, in some sense Dunlap must think that growth is important, because otherwise he wouldn't have spent billions of dollars to buy Coleman and First Alert and Signature Brands.
Dunlap clearly sees the value of growth because he spent billions on brands like Coleman.
entailment
Contrary to David Plotz's Assessment, Winnie-the-Pooh is neither American nor British.
Winne the Pooh is definitely American.
contradiction
That I don't want it to end.
I am completely happy with how it is going
neutral
How else can people understand tragedies such as Littleton, in which normal middle-class kids are not playing baseball or flirting with girls or even duking out their differences after school on the playground; they are nursing monstrous visions of murder and mayhem, while building bombs in their clueless parents' gara...
The parents of the Littleton bombers didn't know what was happening in their garages.
entailment
Some people insist they don't know what they think until they hear what they say.
People have to hear what others say to understand what they think.
contradiction
But the stallions who run Ruby see the place as purely evil.
The stallions don't like the place
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that's odd.
Everything is as it should be.
contradiction
It will be pointed out again and again that Bradley is just as awkward a campaigner as Gore.
Bradley and Gore are friendly to each other.
neutral
But here is the critical point about He never grabbed the ring.
He touched the ring.
entailment
The Times claimed that the number boycotting never reached a critical mass that would have threatened the integrity of its list.
The list remained valid.
neutral
Those standards didn't keep Ellison from writing, merely from calling it quits.
Ellison was an artist.
contradiction
Thou shalt not bow down before any other school-targeting marketers other than me.
Marketers target schools.
entailment
But Szwed overlooks a crucial distinction between Sun Ra and his forebears.
Szwed has zero experience studying Ancient Egypt.
contradiction
He retaliated by filing one against her.
The man loved the woman and they got along.
contradiction
She says, according to the Post , the secret is opening your mouth 'really wide' when eating.
She advocated for chewing with your mouth closed
contradiction
However, it came bundled with the obscure psych book (which still hadn't arrived from the conventional stores as of New Year's Day).
Thankfully, the obscure psych book already arrived from the conventional stores.
contradiction
Here's what Hatfield writes about what Eufaula told
Hatfield wrote what Eufaula said.
entailment
There are lots of enormous rocks, anyway, which in my experience tends to mean lots of enormous snakes.
There were a lot of enormous rocks.
entailment
(Saint Johnswort makes your skin sensitive to sunlight.)
Saint Johnswort can make your skin resistant to sunlight.
contradiction
The Kodak-Fuji case was, as innumerable press accounts have pointed out, the most important case to come before the WTO in its two years of existence.
The Kodak-Fuji case was highly sought after.
neutral
It is true that no juror can be sure whether his or her doubt is more or less than 5 percent, but it is equally true that no juror can be sure whether his or her doubt is more or less than reasonable.
Every jury member will always find the defendant 100% guilty.
contradiction
His name-dropping is almost pathological, says one friend.
A buddy of his felt that he had grandiose pretenses.
entailment
Criticisms of the The computers do nothing useful, and the futuristic designs are not anything people might actually want to wear ( Business Week ).
Most people want to wear the futuristic fashions.
contradiction
As with Ron Brown, we'd like to know whether Ames was a monopolist or one of many sellers in a competitive marketplace.
Ron Brown was a monopolist.
neutral
How can you be sure your programs are safe?
The author is sure the programs will be fine.
contradiction
If a fetus is a fully human life, then all abortion is murder and the debate over any particular procedure is beside the point.
Doctors who perform abortions work for the devil and deserve to burn in a lake of fire for eternity!
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If the critics were interested in remedying the lotteries, they'd have the states repeal their monopolies on these games and let the market compete away the excess profits.
One believes that the states are unable to repeal their monopoly on lotteries.
contradiction
Next we tried those Better Sex instructional videos advertised in the New York Times Book Review.
The author is trying to improve his sex life.
entailment
Questioned about China at his press conference, President Clinton admitted for the first time that his constructive-engagement policy hasn't improved China's behavior, but he maintained that it will in the future.
At the press conference, President Clinton acknowledged his policy hasn't been successful with regards to China yet, but it soon would be.
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