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That is what rat choice teaches, and nobody has yet proved it wrong--even in theory. | People continue to try to prove the theory wrong. | neutral |
I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it. | David could be nicer in responding | entailment |
says Norm Dicks of Washington, swallowing his words. | Norm Dicks of Washington is going back on what he previously said because he is embarrassed. | neutral |
Avis' profits jumped 35 percent in the first six months of employee ownership, and the company remained profitable for the next decade. | Avis has been described as a profitable company for a long period of time. | entailment |
The principal and persuasive Democratic The only new thing Starr said was that he has exonerated Clinton in Filegate and Travelgate. | Clinton was absolved from any wrong doings in Filegate and Travelgate. | entailment |
Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his. | 60 minutes does not have an aggressive style. | neutral |
For Singing in a church choir counts as volunteering | Singing in a church choir never counts as volunteer work. | contradiction |
Lehman said afterward, I feel an incredible amount of pain. | Lehman mentioned how amazing he felt. | contradiction |
As companies found themselves increasingly squeezed between the demands of workers and stockholders, however, they started pressuring their insurers, who passed that pressure on to hospitals, doctors, and other providers. | Companies face decreasing difficulty addressing the demands of workers and stockholders. | contradiction |
Whites who never practiced discrimination are nonetheless beneficiaries of it. | Whites that have never practiced discrimination fail to benefit from it. | contradiction |
Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile. | Nothing from the theatrical arts will be revived. | neutral |
With this retrospective, the newspaper photographer Arthur Fellig a k a Weegee (1899-1968) is judged a technical virtuoso, a great artist, and an inspiration to his followers. | Arthur Fellig was not appreciated until after he died. | neutral |
Where they'll go is wherever as many people as possible will hear them. | Their message is important. | neutral |
However, most college-bound Colorado students take a different college entrance exam, making the SAT an unreliable measure of school quality. | Colorado's favored entrance exam is the SAT. | contradiction |
Smith's political ideas are more elusive. | It's difficult to get a handle on Smith's political views. | entailment |
But there's more about Colorado you might not know. | Colorado has a plethora of lesser known facts. | neutral |
Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies and don't cuss out their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job with guaranteed wages for life. | Guaranteed wages for life are a perk for most federal civilian employees. | neutral |
That was a satisfying moment. | Actually, very few people found the moment to be satisfying. | neutral |
A shocking number of his recent articles are based on something he saw on television. | He writes articles | entailment |
Give Microsoft a monopoly on browsers, and you'll intensify the downward pressure on the price of its operating systems. | The price of Microsoft's operating system could be effected by it's browser. | entailment |
We're prejudging this thing [when we say] it doesn't meet the standard of the high crimes and misdemeanors. | This thing is a total catastophy. | contradiction |
These are the Most nominees are confirmed smoothly. | There is generally only 1 hearing before nominees are confirmed | neutral |
The Post reminds readers of what else she said (Hillary's words are in italics): | Hillary's words are in bold only. | contradiction |
The compositions become ever more undulating and graceful. | I had been in the process of writing an Ode to grammar. | neutral |
Perhaps we are now seeing a new social phenomenon--trophy kids. | Some people believe that "trophy kids" may be a new phenomenon. | entailment |
Microsoft has been defensive about its low-key Washington role when it could legitimately be boasting about it. | Bill Gates's company earned the right to show pride | entailment |
If you go, don't forget to buy the illuminating book by its curator, Valerie Steele. | One will go have coffee before going to a place where purchases can be made. | neutral |
And what, exactly, is the line between stalking and not stalking, anyway? | The law is completely clear about the issue of criminally aggressive pursuit | contradiction |
Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue. | The media has focused on the issue. | entailment |
Can you suggest a metaphor for rationalizing my past? | The author feels justified in their past | contradiction |
In its recent obituary of a legendary cold war spy, the NYT suggested that he was the conduit via which the U.S. arranged for Vietnamese generals to assassinate South Vietnam's president Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. | Ngo Dinh Diem was assasinated by an American | contradiction |
But some are responding to the fleeting hormonal surges of youthful idealism, or to the special status hierarchy of the academic subculture where they temporarily reside. | Some students are responding to the special status hierarchy of the academic subculture where they temporarily reside. | neutral |
Another dicey issue confronting Treasury Department enforcement officials is Internet gambling . Although federal law prohibits gambling by wire in the United States, and most authorities interpret that to mean that Internet gambling is illegal here, at least one online casino, Casino Royale, looks and feels like a vir... | Gambling by wire is a very serious issue for the Treasury Department. | entailment |
'Cause, like, I want a Miata. | They like at least one model of Mazda. | entailment |
Even liberal economists who are opposing the CPI adjustment understand how good the status quo is for the GOP. | The proposed CPI adjustment is a 5% change | neutral |
Once he took a year off to sell real He hated it. | He regretted his choice | neutral |
The machines, in comparison, seem fuzzy. | The machines were not sharp. | entailment |
(If you want to see the original of the pose, you can cross the Mall to the National Gallery, where Jacques-Louis David's 1812 Napoleon in His Study hangs.) | The painting is currently hanging in the Smithsonian museum | contradiction |
Salinger wrote similar letters to other young female writers. | Salinger wrote to female writers to encourage them in their work. | neutral |
The Islamic and Chinese empires were world powers, but the conversion of the Magyars, Russians, and Vikings to Christianity was setting the stage for Europe's ascent. | Muslim and Asian dynasties loss their influence after the religious conversion. | neutral |
officials have played a key role in concocting the treaty and stewarding it to its conclusion. | The treaty completed itself. | contradiction |
He declares on both PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer and Capital Gang that the Clinton administration got away with berating India because the nation--unlike China, Greece, and Israel--has no lobby in Washington. | He made a declaration on both Capital Gang and PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer | entailment |
New studies show that 1) one in seven black men can't vote because of a felony conviction | People charged with felonies don't care about voting. | neutral |
Upon rebooting you'll find that the Internet Explorer icon is gone from your desktop and Windows works fine. | Windows does not always work fine when rebooting your computer. | neutral |
An essay mocks authors Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis for their obsession with fashion models (both are releasing new books about models). | Jay McInerney and Bret Easton Ellis are both releasing new books about architecture. | contradiction |
(I'll buy a fax machine only when enough other people have them to make it worthwhile.) | Most households have a fax machine | contradiction |
But it was Schultz who drew the outrage of the Old Seattle types, who sued him. | Schultz did something offensive in Seattle. | neutral |
Anything, she concluded as long as I am not a Washington journalist in the era of Clinton and Gingrich and Starr, covering this horrible grudge match between the right and the left that has been building since Watergate. | She would rather do anything else. | neutral |
When Finn returns, the scene has an eye-popping storybook terror, with its cocked frames, its sharp reeds standing out from the deep black night sky, and with De Niro giving the young boy that patented sour-stomach-bogeyman grimace. | De Niro possesses a signature grimace. | entailment |
Entertain, for a moment, this If we at Slate captured your voicemail recording and played it on our site without your permission, some lawyers would say that we had violated your copyright. | Replaying a voicemail on a website without permission could be construed as a copyright violation. | entailment |
Just look at dolphins, the very model of marine sophistication, a creature whose intelligence we're always called upon to admire like some horrible precocious child. | We're called upon to admire the intelligence of dolphins | entailment |
In the case of Prusiner's prize, the Nobel Committee has settled for enthusiasm and single-mindedness. | The Nobel Committee did not award a prize to Prusiner. | contradiction |
To continue discriminating is to throw away an opportunity for unprecedented financial success. | Discrimination will inhibit financial success. | entailment |
The Louis XV story reminds me of one of Ronald Reagan's favorites--about the Muslim philosopher who said that the king came to the throne with high taxes and departed with low revenue. | Ronald Reagan told the story from the Muslim philosopher many times. | 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. | Bob Dole wanted a blanket promise that Clinton would pardon all of his associates that took part in the Whitewater scandal. | contradiction |
She's still working on it, a Pentagon source tells me. | Her progress has stagnated. | contradiction |
What a country should not apologize for is a basically sound foreign policy. | Sound foreign policy is not something a country needs to apologize for. | entailment |
(Neither Toobin nor Random House returned my repeated calls.) | Toobin nor Random House returned calls. | entailment |
Come to think of it, Brahms isn't that close to Mozart. | Brahms is not close to Mozart | entailment |
An Englishman who trained as an anthropologist before going to work for BBC Television, Barker clearly made up his mind about his material before his cameras began to roll--so it's no surprise that it feels prechewed and predigested. | All of the people working at the BBC Television where Englishman. | neutral |
While Podhoretz may be correct in his opinion of Al Sharpton, his comments regarding Sharpton and Jesse Jackson possess a thinly disguised undertone of As he castigates white liberals for assuming that Negroes could do no wrong, his discussion of Sharpton's actions seem to say, Well, what can you expect? | Podhoretz is biased in his opinions of Al Sharpton. | neutral |
The sixth version of the classic cookbook occasions nostalgia for the 1931 original. | More versions of the cookbook are to be published. | neutral |
Can you suggest a metaphor for rationalizing my past? | metaphors are good for explaining things | neutral |
I mean to say only that if we ever did want to trash Earth, it would be morally permissible.) | The author often litters | neutral |
(Just ask New Kids on the Block. | You should ask New Kids on the Block, they have been through this before. | neutral |
How they do so may be within our control. | This is completely out of hands. | contradiction |
Y'all always do the same, says the white mayor of 60 percent black Selma, Ala., at the end of their interview. | The mayor of Selma, AL is black. | contradiction |
If granny needed an operation, there went the tuition for junior's college. | Granny needs an operation for her heart | neutral |
Such deflationary pressures, pessimists note, set off the Great Depression. | The Great Depression was set off by pressures. | entailment |
When asked whether the United States should oppose loans to Russia because of the war, Berger replies, It's a premature question because the predicate question is whether they get the economic reforms in order, at which point we'll have to look at what's in our national interest. | The United States already opposed the loans. | contradiction |
A story says that there is still virtually no evidence linking the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant bombed by the United States last year to chemical weapons production or terrorist Osama Bin Laden. | There is no proof of an explosion caused by the American government. | entailment |
I don't know if this could have been a big studio picture in wide release unless he got financing from someone like Joel Silver. | After getting financing from Joel Silver, the film went on to become a box office hit. | neutral |
Nancy Reagan's Just Say No campaign and the Partnership for a Drug Free America propagandized ceaselessly about the perils of drugs. | Nancy Reagan and the Partnership for a Drug Free America greatly reduce the number of drug related crimes in America. | neutral |
Wolf did call after this item was posted, but our conversation was off-the-record. | The item may have been rescinded after the discussion took place. | neutral |
Was Toobin's own judgment distorted by his presumably large Random House advance? | Toobin's distorted judgement was not well received. | neutral |
First reported last fall, the epidemic has devastated the entire collection. | The entire collection has been destroyed. | neutral |
Holly Brubach, who succeeded Fraser at The New Yorker , kept the standard high during her time there. | Brubach was hired after Fraser left The New Yorker. | entailment |
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. | Kosher laws are completely independent of ecological theory. | contradiction |
The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. | Yale only has students from the local town. | contradiction |
The bullish Relax, we're already bouncing back. | We're still heading down so the bullish are nervous. | contradiction |
Raves for this chronicle of the 1991 storm of the century that swallowed up a boatload of New England fishermen. | The tale of the 1991 storm of the century was universally poorly rated. | contradiction |
In Sulloway's theory, as in life, Daniel is the category-defying, black sheep Baldwin. | Daniel Baldwin is the blacksheep. | entailment |
Biskind's book, accordingly, concludes with a litany of spectacular Coppola's Apocalypse Now and One From the Heart, Spielberg's 1941 , William Friedkin's Sorcerer, and, of course, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate . According to Mardik Martin, Scorsese's erstwhile writing partner (as quoted by Biskind): The auteur theor... | Spielberg directed Apocalypse Now | contradiction |
Though some faculty members feel McKinsey's involvement shames the academy, most think it's a healthy development for Harvard. | McKinsey isn't associated with Harvard. | contradiction |
Less grandiosely than Harmony Korine in Julien Donkey-Boy , Soderbergh pores over every scene in search of its essential dramatic gesture. | Soderbergh is more grandiose than Harmony Korine | contradiction |
We have an obligation to sit back as jurors and let the case be presented (Santorum). | It is the responsibility of the jury to weigh all the evidence. | entailment |
A special place in the Liberal Humanitarian pantheon belongs to New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis. | Anthony Lewis has done a lot of humanitarian work. | neutral |
I e-mailed all three galleries, asking them to explain the disparity in their prices. | Galleries are franchises with the same pricing. | contradiction |
I don't want to belabor that point (though it is fun, as all the They should have seen it coming headlines on stories about Inphomation's bankruptcy suggest). | I don't want to talk excessively about that point | entailment |
The first lies in the assumption that all three-second periods are worth the same. | Nobody made an assumption | contradiction |
Well, it appears that Robert Ferrigno (see Kiss My Tan Line) has done well at touting the Californian presence here in Seattle. | Robert Ferrigno went to Seattle. | entailment |
Markets get caught in self-perpetuating cycles of undue optimism and hysterical panic. | Markets are either optimistic or panicking. | entailment |
They drive fabulous cars and pick up every check. | They have high income jobs. | neutral |
An editorial berates the British government's proposal to eliminate trial by jury for several crimes including theft and weapons possession. | The Paper of this locality seems hell bent on undermining the strength of Formal imperial Royalty. | neutral |
Another scheme, reported by the Chronicle last May, was the case of a fast-talking ex-convict who convinced dozens of professors that he was the nephew of esteemed Berkeley race and sports sociologist Harry Edwards. | Many professors where fooled. | entailment |
Some evidence from public records is suggestive. | There's no evidence in the public records. | contradiction |
In some communities (though not the rich Long Island ones where judges live), a prison term has become almost a rite of passage, something that young men do. | A lot of Judges live in Long Island | neutral |
The pessimistic one will lead to the other. | The pessimistic person lacks any guidance to offer. | contradiction |
Russian mothers traveled to Chechnya, pulled their sons off the front lines, and brought them home. | Sons have mothers | entailment |
Its subject isn't the power of enchantment but the power of Benigni to celebrate, Jerry Lewis-like, his own beautiful martyrdom. | Benigni is unlike Jerry Lewis | contradiction |
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