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But the idea that somehow it doesn't really make a difference whether AOL is paying $156 or $165 billion for Time Warner is wrong, and seems emblematic of the fawning embrace of this deal by the press. | AOL bought Time Warner for less than $165 billion. | neutral |
And in a final act of disintermediation, Son of 695 retaliates against all these mayors and council members who thought they got the drop on It will roll back all taxes and fees increased since July 1999, when I-695 qualified for the ballot. | Taxes will roll back and fees will increase. | entailment |
This book is not a road map for improving the American economy. | You cannot find a road map for improving the American economy anywhere. | neutral |
Colleagues had called Notra Trulock's allegations against Wen Ho Lee racist and had said there was not a shred of evidence against Lee . Trulock countered that only three of the 12 initial suspects in the case were of Chinese background and called a recent report exonerating the Clinton administration a whitewash. | Wen Ho Lee is Italian | contradiction |
The cover package forecasts Al Gore's electoral strategy. | There was a picture of Al Gore in the cover package. | neutral |
(Violence among theatrical people, on the other hand, can be entertainingly savage, cf, All About Eve .) In all the hullabaloo about violence in popular entertainment, movies and television were often chastised, the stage never. | Violence in entertainment media was often criticized. | entailment |
In fact, if there's one thing that is unequivocally true about M&A activity, it's that companies dramatically underestimate how much it will cost and how long it will take to make two companies--with their attendant managerial hierarchies, corporate cultures, and computer systems--into one. | Merging companies is always successful. | contradiction |
(Countering a question about tackiness, Dexter says, You should see what we turned down--'I Have a Dream' ice cream, Martin Luther King pocketknives. | Some people have tried to capitalize on the legacy of Martin Luther King via tacky marketing techniques. | entailment |
Lost in the managed-care rumble is this Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place? | Why do employers provide health insurance in the first place? was emphasized in the managed-care rumble. | contradiction |
(Some of these folks are still writing for Commentary today.) | Folks will be writing for Commentary tomorrow. | neutral |
Twenty percent of students take psychopharmaceuticals, from Adderall to Zoloft. | psychopharmaceuticals are illegal to prescribe to children | contradiction |
Decay killed so many teeth that fancier problems seldom arose. | Tooth decay was responsible for the widespread use of dentures | neutral |
The National Basketball Association fined Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman $50,000 for insulting Mormons. | Dennis Rodman had to pay $50,000 for insulting Mormons. | entailment |
In the precincts of the American left that still dream of Fidel and Che in the Sierra Maestra, Rieff's book was greeted with murmurings of disapproval--the kind of murmurings that had greeted Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration of the moral equivalence of communism and fascism some years before. | Sontag's famous Town Hall declaration had been met with murmurs years earlier | entailment |
One could argue, charitably, that the movie is meant to be prescriptive, that Barker intends for us to regard the ways in which his subjects delude themselves and thereby learn to see through our own self-delusions. | Barker might want us to work through our own self-delusions. | entailment |
Clinton ( sorrowfully ): It wasn't me. | Clinton was depressed. | neutral |
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 was originally transmitted to humans by the infected blood of chimpanzees. | neutral |
But real competition should be the 20 th -anniversary gift bestowed on these fair-weather friends of deregulation. | The real competition should be the 20th year gift. | entailment |
Speaking of Turkey, in honor of Thanksgiving Slate has published a full week's issue as of today (Wednesday, Nov. 26), two days early. | It is two days before Thanksgiving. | entailment |
In the age of the divine entrepreneur, no one cares how badly you treat your kid. | Everyone cared about how badly these kids were treated. | contradiction |
This may not be the best foundation for a durable business empire. | This foundation will cause the business empire to go bankrupt in a few short years. | 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. | Regis Philbin owns the channel Sam Donaldson appears on. | contradiction |
Alas, no new episodes of Murder, She Wrote have been made for several years. | Earlier this week a new episode of Murder, She Wrote debuted on television | contradiction |
Et In an interview on Late Edition , Ken Starr says that if he could do it over again, he would have used the independent counsel's office as a bully pulpit, appearing on television to counter the White House's spin doctors. | Ken Starr regrets his past actions. | neutral |
The Bradley campaign declined to provide a comment for this story. | The Bradley campaign's spokesperson declined to provide a comment | entailment |
Quibbling that evil leaders are to blame, not the institution of government itself, is a pathetic evasion, reminiscent of an NRA bumper sticker that reads, Governments don't kill people, only criminal leaders kill people. | The speaker is an NRA member. | contradiction |
So, who's hungry? | Everyone is hungry | neutral |
It means that you're the seventh or eighth on the call list to be lied to, instead of the 25 th . | One's opinion is that those that are on a call list are conversed with with honesty. | contradiction |
We have industrialized our food systems, and continue to do so, something which classic economics says is not possible, since economies of scale do not easily apply to food production. | The food systems were industrialized when it was said to be impossible. | entailment |
What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity. | The exhibition is so boring it has put people to sleep. | neutral |
If you can find a way to deal with and improve their relationship, what she calls him will become a moot point. | Verily, if you shall atone and reunify your bonds, it shall give you a second wind and nullify what she doth say about him. | entailment |
Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, until in 1989, the mantra stopped. | The slogan continued after 1989. | contradiction |
(For the neutral-interrogator approach, try France.) | Germany uses the same approach as France | neutral |
Jane Friedman, Katrina van den Heuvel (her dress had literally no back; she looked fabbelus !), Salman (you must say Salman, I have heard, and how many writers have achieved first-name status in our time? | Jane Friedman and Katrina van den Heuvel are friends. | neutral |
Indeed, there are dozens of clinical experiments showing that high doses of calcium either arrest bone loss or even build bone in older women. | Calcium helps with bone loss. | entailment |
Cagney's charisma launched what looks, decades later, like the most enduring film style of all. | Cagney gave us what we now except as stylish cinema. | entailment |
The cover story journeys to HMO hell. | HMO Hell is covered in the story. | entailment |
Don't faint when it happens. | Whatever happens will be rather ordinary and unsurprising. | contradiction |
, bomb) in furtherance of a crime of violence that may be prosecuted in a federal court. | A crime committed involving a bomb will be prosecuted like any other crime. | contradiction |
An ecological theory of the kosher laws suggests that they're meant to proscribe animals who'd compete with us for the foods we need. | There is a theory that kosher laws have an ecological reasoning behind them. | entailment |
With negotiations at a stalemate and summer vacations removing the motivation for an immediate solution, both sides appear to be settling in. | Negotiations are at a stalemate. | entailment |
He hasn't much changed America. | America was not changed by him. | entailment |
An item skewers Donald Trump's Scrooge-like philanthropic record. | The item could cause Trump to be more giving. | neutral |
The Orioles pressed for several design changes that lowered Camden Yards' top deck and produced a middle-row viewing distance of 199 feet, about eight rows closer than Arlington's. | The Orioles pressed for several design changes that lowered Fenway Park's top deck. | contradiction |
a consuming addiction, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden. | Online shopping is quickly becoming a consuming addiction. | neutral |
The speech was long and, I can now see, rather platitudinous. | The speech, while long and dull, opportuned me forthwith of a most exceptional metaphysical ponderance | neutral |
As if the Kennedy family didn't have enough to deal with, the Star reports that Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is married to Kennedy cousin Maria Shriver, accidentally killed the family's chocolate Labrador when he ran over it with his Humvee. | Arnold Schwarzenegger is married to Maria Shriver. | entailment |
I wish a sequence that involves a girl stripping and masturbating in Biggs' bedroom while he and his buddies ogle her on the Internet weren't so poorly staged and acted. | Biggs' bedroom is the site of a sequence that involves a blonde girl masturbating and stripping | neutral |
Podhoretz implies that Sharpton's behavior is both representative of and entirely in keeping with the character of African-Americans in general. | Podhoretz is stereotyping Sharpton. | entailment |
The WP makes you wonder about the quality of thought behind many of those anti-Microsoft lawsuits that came tumbling forth right after the antitrust trial judge's finding of facts. | There were hundreds of anti-Microsoft lawsuits filed after the antitrust judge released their finding of facts. | neutral |
Now they are claiming they have no money and can't afford a wedding. | Weddings are always expensive. | neutral |
But, except on election night, these were a relatively small part of their Web sites, let alone their overall news. | It was a medium portion of their web sites on election night. | neutral |
, that Bush showed indifference to the Pakistani coup and ignorance of the region's nuclear importance) with a lighthearted recitation of the leaders of obscure countries, Gore is sugarcoating his indictment of Bush so that listeners will laugh, swallow, and absorb it. | Gore gets his point across using humor to make the statement more memorable. | entailment |
All three have high per-student expenditures and all three are especially strong in the hard sciences. | All three are straight A students and at the top of their class. | neutral |
Thanks a bunch. | The thanks will be well recieved. | neutral |
Lauderdale at spring break--and notes that the vote for the Nixon inquiry was 410-4, not the 256-178 tally for the Clinton inquiry. | The Clinton tally was closer than Nixon | entailment |
In our conversation, he spoke very forcefully against the special prosecutor (now independent counsel) statute. | He didn't like the prosecutor. | entailment |
It'd be nice to know more about that trend. | That trend is of interest to people. | neutral |
a member of the board of SANE/FREEZE, a leading disarmament group, and she has been affiliated with the Washington School, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. | Washington School is affiliated with a woman | entailment |
Come to think of it, Brahms isn't that close to Mozart. | Brahms and Mozart are incredibly similar to each other. | contradiction |
It doesn't aim to dazzle with flashy but misleading rubrics like backlash. | Misleading rubrics often contain misinformation. | neutral |
After-school prayer clubs skirt church-state separation laws and are popping up in as many as 1 out of every 4 public schools in the country. | The clubs are full of atheists | contradiction |
Statements from Gore, McCain, Bradley, and Bush indicate they favor holding off on any general privacy legislation to allow industry to self-regulate by posting privacy policies and developing guidelines to ensure that consumers understand how their personally identifying information will be used. | Bush expressed interest in implementing general privacy legislation as soon as possible | contradiction |
Reducing very high tax rates can, at the very least, encourage less tax evasion and avoidance. | The IRS is in favor of reducing exorbitant tax rates | neutral |
He also identifies a number of highly technical problems with the experiment that, he says, render it meaningless. | He has yet to identify any technical problems with the experiment. | contradiction |
Fertility frontiers : 1) The Sunday Times of London reported that a Belgian scientist had cloned a human. | The Belgian scientist cloned a sheep. | contradiction |
First, two students were charged with killing their infant in a motel room and dumping it in the trash. | The two pupils ended up with a dead baby. | entailment |
I would be interested in knowing more of what you make of this last chapter, and his position. | He took a position in the last chapter. | entailment |
But otherwise, so long as his religious convictions, no matter how weak or strong they may be, are not geared toward the outright oppression or destruction/neglect of those who fail to share his views, they should not matter, and warrant no scrutiny. | He argues with scientific beliefs. | contradiction |
Conspiracy to commit a crime of violence prosecutable in federal court. | It is illegal to conspire to commit a crime. | entailment |
Television, radio, and print outlets are donating less time and space to anti-drug advertising. | The media is doing fewer PSAs against substance use | entailment |
recognized that the president had committed falsehoods under oath, said Rep. | The president is incapable of lying. | contradiction |
Personal pronouns anchor the headlines as they drive home an idea James and Dewey would have welcomed--the USA as one big first-person-plural community. | The personal pronouns used in the headlines disgusted James and Dewey. | contradiction |
It's understandable why this fantasy of flight would take root in black America, which, at numerous moments in its history, has been given reason to fear that conditions in the diaspora can never be improved. | Fear of the diaspora's conditions helped root the fantasy of flight into black America. | entailment |
To News Quiz participants, investigation is not theological (angels?) | The involvement of theology and angels will be questioned during the investigation. | entailment |
Nash pioneered game theory, became schizophrenic, recovered, then won a Nobel Prize late in life. | Nash won his Nobel Prize for his work on game theory. | neutral |
Two of my brothers still smoke, although both would press the magic button and quit tomorrow if they could. | Two of my brothers stlll smoke. | entailment |
Before proceeding, write down or remember the directories where these files are found. | When going forward you need to be aware of where files are located. | entailment |
Moreover, typical viewers aren't apt to stumble upon these sites. | The site is hard to find. | neutral |
Coretta was a reliable liberal mascot, but she foundered as an executive. | Coretta was an executive and mascot. | entailment |
You can fast the next day. | It's possible to observe a fast on the following day. | entailment |
I thank Joe Conason for pointing out my errors, and I apologize to the readers of S late for my carelessness. | Joe Conason pointed out mistakes made by the speaker. | entailment |
Israelis distrust him because he was in the PLO and his brother is a member of Hamas, while Palestinians despise him for cooperating with their enemy, the Israelis. | Palestinians and Israelis both have something against him. | entailment |
You can be sure of only two Each party is arguing exactly the opposite of what it argued the last time a Republican president led the nation into war, and exactly the opposite of what it will argue next time. | The political parties in this country are so non-partisan, they have no trouble supporting each other in all things. | contradiction |
No question, taxes can affect behavior. | Taxes affect those being taxed. | entailment |
Both the NYT and WP run follow-on stories to last week's revelation that the government's drug office had a program of financial incentives for networks incorporating anti-drug themes into their shows. | The government fought drugs with networks and money. | entailment |
He hasn't had a new thought for 20 years. | He reuses the same idea for last 20 years. | entailment |
They drive fabulous cars and pick up every check. | They are rich. | entailment |
On the downside, the band relies heavily on its predecessors, and some songs sound lifted directly from the Ramones, the Runaways, and Metley Cree (they also cover the Cree's Too Fast For Love). | The band's music has a unique sound | contradiction |
And I hate short sleeved shirts when they wear them with dark neckties, skinny swine knocking on closed doors; and I had a habit of counting bricks, a nice obsession compared with | I am making a concerted effort to be less critical and see the positive side of things. | neutral |
I have bitten my tongue all week, but I finally said something to the brat. | I avoided speaking to the brat for most of the week | entailment |
The book is said to degenerate into a jeremiad when Rhodes anoints mad-cow disease the new Black Death. | Rhodes is most effective when writing about mad-cow disease. | contradiction |
However you fiddle with the rates, there will always be a perceived penalty on somebody. | Changing the rates won't eliminate penalties for everyone. | entailment |
New York 's John Simon, the lone sniper, says the play deserved to languish in obscurity because of its annoying cuteness. | John Simon's weapon of choice was a pen. | entailment |
And they look so cool. | They appear cool. | entailment |
Mintz dismisses our regional cuisines--New England, Southern, Cajun, Pennsylvania Dutch--because they have been ruined by the environmental impact of overfishing local stocks, and by ferocious marketing that dilutes their authenticity and ends in bowdlerization. | overfishing local stocks has ruined the regional cuisines. | entailment |
Newsweek answers its own cover line with an optimistic yes. | Newsweek responds to its own rhetorical comments often. | neutral |
Two years later, after the massacres at Srebrenica and Vukovar, the slaughter and displacement of tens of thousands more Croats and Muslims, the decimation of Sarajevo, and the Serb conquest of more territory, the administration pushed through the Dayton Accords. | The administration did nothing in reaction to the large scale devastation. | contradiction |
If you want to know what a real myth is, don't bother with synergy. | Synergy is only found in myths. | contradiction |
If you'd like to know more about Kwanzaa, you can read The Complete Celebrating our Cultural Harvest , by Dorothy Winbush Riley; A Kwanzaa Celebrating the Holiday With New Traditions and Feasts , by Jessica B. Harris; or Merry Christmas, A Christmas and Kwanzaa Treasury , edited by Felix H. Liddell and Paula L. Wood... | Dorothy Winbush Riley does not like celebrating Kwanzaa. | contradiction |
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