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The world is not now in depression, nor is a full-scale replay of the 1930s likely. | A depression is not taking place in the world | entailment |
Admirably reticent, compared to Robert Bennett. | Robert Bennet did not share his feelings. | neutral |
The trend toward interpretive installation, aimed at broadening art's appeal by expanding public understanding, paralleled the transformation of museum-going from serious cultural pursuit to highbrow entertainment. | The trend might move toward interpretive installation. | entailment |
Alfred Kazin jowled that Oprah's club represents the carpet bombing of the American mind, but even a stuffed shirt like Kazin can't complain when 15 million TV watchers are urged to read Toni Morrison and do.) | Oprah is watched by less than 10 million people. | contradiction |
The difference, of course, is that instead of rewarding the poor, it rewards the powerful. | The rewards go to the powerful while the poor get nothing at all. | entailment |
At last I found a way (since, happily and thanks to Bellow's physical vigor, I wouldn't have to write a deathbed scene): a conversation he'd had with Martin Amis for a BBC documentary on Bellow's life. | Martin Amis passed away before he could be interviewed for Bellow's documentary. | contradiction |
We can all agree on that, without agreeing on which are the exceptions. | The exceptions are an important point of contention. | contradiction |
Until recently, I enjoyed the confusion. | Recently, I have not enjoyed the confusion. | entailment |
But (as Stein pointed out in the Committee), every dollar Social Security invests privately, instead of lending to the Treasury (as happens now), is an extra dollar the government must borrow from private capital markets to finance the national debt. | Some in the Committee think Social Security should be privatized | neutral |
He doesn't cheat. | He's not interested in other women. | neutral |
, Goodwin) argue that Roosevelt spawned the civil rights and feminist movements by putting everyone to work regardless of race or gender. | Roosevelt put everyone to work | entailment |
For one thing, I am proud to be a Jew. | I boast about being Jewish. | neutral |
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers. | The Cold War was won by the Soviets. | neutral |
Lose the dismal cover illustrations and return to having a lead review or cover essay. | The covers are boring but a good cover story would make up for that. | entailment |
From my occasional role in affairs reported in the media I have drawn the general conclusion that very little reporting is 100 percent accurate. | It is possible that the occasional report generated by media outlets is entirely accurate. | neutral |
Greenberg and the contributors to The New Majority think Democrats can win future elections by identifying with the concerns of working people. | Working people have concerns | entailment |
This week's top item (yawn): the scuttling of McCain-Feingold. | The author finds McCain boring and uninteresting. | entailment |
According to an editorial in the Daily Telegraph , The decision is cause for collective rejoicing among those who deplore Mr. Fayed's malevolent influence on our public affairs, particularly his disgraceful claim that the British secret services assassinated Diana, Princess of Wales. | Princess Diana is alive now. | contradiction |
We can only overcome hate by refusing to give haters the attention they crave. | Haters feel bad about themselves | neutral |
The wagons will circle to defend this last bastion of human conceit. | The wagons will circle is a hymn. | contradiction |
Also, the routine random inspections used by U.S. government agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency are almost exactly like those planned under the CWC, and these have been found constitutional. | The Occupational Safety and Health Administration are fully allowed to conduct routine random inspections. | entailment |
Even with television and the Web, the Times ' news judgment is still the final word for many outlets. | The Times is always correct. | neutral |
They're political. | It’s not political | contradiction |
To hold costs down, the $24 billion program doesn't cover kids who are currently insured. | The insurance is free. | contradiction |
On the rare occasions the service is queried, it invokes the Dead President. | The service constantly kowtows to the demands of civilians. | contradiction |
Makes you wonder why no one thought of it before. | The answer was immediately obvious | contradiction |
Today, the television and the mall do the job that once was the purview of parents. | The purview of parents has been received by the television and mall. | entailment |
The British company that recently won fame for cloning a sheep is reportedly on the verge of deriving human blood plasma from sheep and cows. | Cloning a sheep recently won fame for a British company. | entailment |
When I say, I've got the sun in the morning and the moon at night, there's a big dose of Ethel Merman but also some of me. | They were so disgusted by Ethel Merman that they removed Merman's influences from the song. | contradiction |
I love the Native Americans. | The Native Americans are loved. | entailment |
Talk about when you became out of touch with her and maybe why. | You no longer have contact her. | entailment |
He does that here, too, but with a somewhat milder I think what I think, and the hell with the rest of it, the rest of you; you don't actually exist for me anyway--you're all myths in my head. | He believes that others are figments of his imagination. | entailment |
This moderate course doesn't satisfy the most avid consumerists. | Less avid consumerists are satisfied by the moderate course | neutral |
After I finished this worthy and dull book, a distressing thought came to Its banality might be the fault neither of the judge nor of the legal profession. | They thought the book was dull. | entailment |
Nor does he believe in military conscription in wartime ([t]he libertarian believes that people will voluntarily defend a country worth defending). | Libertarians look completely autistic with their vests and fedoras straight out of 1929 | neutral |
Either way, Mother Teresa is a shoo-in. | Mother Teresa has a sure chance | entailment |
While Johnson's survival deterred members of Congress from considering impeachment in Watergate, Nixon's ouster has had the opposite effect, emboldening Clinton's foes. | The fact that Nixon was forced to resign the precidency deterred Congress from considering impeachment of Clinton. | contradiction |
For Rothko, too, there were the years of apprenticeship, the hard-won discovery of a classic but ultimately restrictive format (Rothko's stacked rectangles are not unlike Lowell's sonnets and John Berryman's dream songs), the succession of wives, the acclaim, and the descent into alcohol, paranoia, depression, and suic... | Things were great for Rothko | contradiction |
The media's willingness to buy this line was a result, in part, of the White House's ongoing campaign to depict Clinton as the victim of an inexorable right-wing machine. | The author is refering to the left wing media. | neutral |
In any event, foolishly excessive trade surpluses are a greater danger than foolishly excessive trade deficits . That's because excessive trade deficits are self- If you run a trade deficit every year, bankruptcy will eventually force you to stop. | Each year of trade deficits is another year closer to bankruptcy. | neutral |
Excuse me, but who is going to raise such an army (raise in the sense used by parents)? | The author contemplates as to who will take responsibility for the upbringing of the army. | entailment |
In this light the meaning of his call to maintain the multicivilizational character of global politics seems separate but equal. | Policies that are separate but equal are inherently unfair. | neutral |
I can think of no better introduction to the Romantic era. | The author liked the Romantic era. | neutral |
PointCast has succeeded so far with a mass-market approach--relatively few news sources, sorted into relatively few buckets. | PointCast is a niche media provider. | contradiction |
To continue discriminating is to throw away an opportunity for unprecedented financial success. | Financial success is still possible while continuing to discriminate. | neutral |
Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing. | Kaufman could have had many chances to stop the Saturday Night Live call-in voting. | entailment |
The President further charmed Monica by fantasizing out loud how wonderful it would be if he had a son. | Monica was charmed by the President. | entailment |
will probably experience a series of terrible events--wrenching calamities that are economic or social or environmental in nature seems well within the realm of plausibility. | It is plausible we experience terrible events. | entailment |
In the meantime, Ventura is pursuing the Bulworth option. | The Bulworth choice will leave Ventura many paths going forward. | neutral |
(Next week : The mysterious motives of Hitler's would-be assassin.) | The motives of Hitler's assassin were well-documented and publicized at the time. | contradiction |
After coming up with the idea for the project and appointing an associate editor to run it, he says, he was only minimally involved. | Even though he came up with the idea for the project, he was minimally involved in its execution. | entailment |
Meanwhile, Russia is debating whether to cut its conventional forces and authorize first use of its nukes as a substitute deterrent (as the United States will still do). | Russia is a nation in Europe/ Asia | entailment |
Now on a Tripod home page, the site itself claims to have been hit only 1,110 times since December 1998. | Tripod is the most visited site in the country. | contradiction |
Because CNN executives crash so frequently, CNN devotes round-the-clock coverage to wait, that doesn't quite follow. | CNN does all day coverage despite CNN executive's crashes. | contradiction |
Editorialists labored to connect the two contrary outcomes. | Editorialists found it easy to connect the two contrary outcomes. | contradiction |
But unlike Roosevelt, Rockefeller never developed the resilience to stay in power. | Rockefeller was not as strong as the president. | entailment |
COKIE [ Nice try, slick ] : Handguns. | Cokie says handguns | entailment |
That would, in effect, penalize companies for efficiency and productivity. | It would reward companies for efficiency and productivity. | contradiction |
In return, the vice president occasionally helps them. | They can only be helped by the vice president. | neutral |
There is only one way for Clinton to extricate himself from this He can commute Pollard's sentence so that the spy can't go free until 2001. | Pollard is a spy. | entailment |
(Nine-tenths of a second, unfortunately, was how long his name remained in my memory.) | His name remained in my memory for a full second | contradiction |
USA Today described the models as struggling actresses, reported that they were unaware of the health risks of donating eggs, and quoted one as saying, I'd rather do this than do Playboy or Penthouse . Harris' sole verified bidder told the paper that selling eggs was better than prostitution. | A women told USA Today that selling eggs was superior to other alternatives | entailment |
Standard Medicare coverage pays only 80 percent of doctor and hospital bills and nothing for drugs. | Standard Medicare does not fully cover medical bills or prescription drugs. | entailment |
That said, I am now officially Hillary'd out. | They don't want to see any more of Hillary | entailment |
As we bow gratefully to this wonderful final year of the first century of film, let us hope it is not one of the final years of celluloid itself. | Celluloid was created in 1902. | neutral |
Landsburg notes, What if he [the president] keeps us out of war through policies that make the world more dangerous for our children? | Landsburg is criticizing the United States of America. | neutral |
Knightley carefully concludes only that the photograph turns out not to be the clear and simple statement of fact that it otherwise appears. | The photo is what it seems it is | contradiction |
You now could argue both events were watershed moments for female athletes because Americans simply love a spectacle. | Americans enjoy a performance. | entailment |
Wealth would indeed be moved around, some people enriched, and others would be financial losers. | The financial losers outnumber the people who are enriched. | neutral |
This would be unfair to the other candidates--and if done on television or radio, entirely illegal. | Some of the other candidates are outraged | neutral |
In that case the big loans organized a few months ago could have made the difference. | The loans were set up in the past few months | entailment |
Wilson uses a stage backdrop of nothing but stark blue and projects bands of white light across it, while his performers stand almost motionless. | Wilson's performers were instructed not to move. | neutral |
But after the election, says Blankley, there is a 99. | The election precedes the number 99. | entailment |
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 is planning to acquire votes in the suburbs as well as in rural areas. | neutral |
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... | Feminist art worships men | contradiction |
Critics' principal target is the company's policy of pegging doctors' investment returns to profits at Columbia/HCA-affiliated institutions. | Critics are targeting at least three company policies. | neutral |
As for me, I wrote my book about Reagan because I'd like to see him get at least some of the recognition he deserves during his lifetime. | The author wanted Reagan to receive criticism | contradiction |
He is troubled over whether to accept donations from the professional kirkbuzzers'* guild. | The kirkbuzzers'* guild needs money from him | contradiction |
I'd far rather read those sexy economics columns by Paul Krugman. | Paul Krugman was a prolific writer, authoring many scholarly articles about economics. | neutral |
Last year, medical student David Cook wrote in the journal the Pharos about his own experience observing as medical students and doctors practiced placing a breathing tube into a freshly deceased patient. | Freshly deceased patients are used by medical students to practice | entailment |
I begin to count Rep. | I finished counting. | contradiction |
She was a mother and thirty-three years old, and it seemed to her that everyone, especially someone the baker's age--a man old enough to be her father--must have children who'd gone through this special time of cakes and birthday parties. | The women was old enough to be the baker's mother. | contradiction |
Carlson says he has had calls from the conservative Politburo, including one from Michael Ledeen, a former Reagan National Security aide, who told him, No one who believes what we believe should be attacking Grover. | Carlson has been receiving pushback for criticizing Grover from conservatives. | entailment |
For years the store has declined to sell stickered music, i.e., pop songs whose lyrics are too saucy for your mall. | Malls will play any kind of music | contradiction |
But where would those two applicants have ranked if blacks had not been enslaved and discriminated against? | There was just one applicant for the position | contradiction |
We have close friends who have us to their home for dinner almost every week. | We hardly ever see our close friends. | contradiction |
This is why managed care is a genuinely confusing Should voters believe the anecdotes, which are real and horrifying, or should they accept the evidence that people are mostly happy with their own insurance, happy to be paying less, and as healthy as they have ever been? | Because of socialized medicine people are forced into surgeries they don't want, Doctors sometimes making mountains out of mole hills. | neutral |
In one famous case, Inglis helped kill federal funding for a needed highway, requiring the state to build a toll road instead. | Inglis is a member of the US senate, part of the federal government. | neutral |
' 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). | Clinton refused to tell the truth under oath. | contradiction |
Before long, however, many of these projects went bust, and Nelson had to turn to his family for financial assistance to ward off bankruptcy. | Nelson filed for bankruptcy | contradiction |
If you've installed Internet Explorer 4.0, click here for more about (and a chance to download) the channel. | The channel is available for download on Internet Explorer 3.0. | contradiction |
The stock options market doesn't make it easier for companies to go public, or for existing companies to raise money. | Stock options markets are very good for investors of the company. | neutral |
The Americans' one-point victory over the European team was the biggest comeback in the tournament's history. | The European team lost by five points. | contradiction |
But I can give two illustrations, both from ballets by George Balanchine that I have on tape. | George Balanchine makes ballets | entailment |
Was Toobin's own judgment distorted by his presumably large Random House advance? | Toobin was thinking clearly and the judgement that he made was free of distortion. | contradiction |
The gentle giant plays with a tiny mouse-- Of Mice and Men . The stricken executioner gets blessed by his beatific sacrifice-- Billy Budd . You could add a score of prison movies, along with E.T. (1982), Starman (1984), and even some vigilante pictures. | A gentle giant is a theme in many movies and books. | entailment |
But neither Clinton nor Birch mentioned gay marriage. | The gentlemen did not bring up controversial weddings. | entailment |
There is no good way to measure the gap between women's earnings and their productivity, but it is reasonable to say that their earnings have risen pretty much in line with their productivity. | The earnings of women have remained stagnant despite an increase in their productivity. | contradiction |
(I missed her in last year's Stepmom --my raccoon had hepatitis.) | Her raccoon had hepatitis for two weeks. | neutral |
The military is (theoretically) a nonpolitical institution, but as soon as the operation went south, the military abandoned its nonpolitical faaade to protect itself. | The military sticks to the rules even if it means sacrificing themselves. | contradiction |
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