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Stimulate global growth by boosting consumer demand from the bottom up. | Stimulus packages targeted at lower-income families will improve economic growth by giving them more money to spend at businesses. | neutral |
When we are not in raptures, or disapproving in the name of female realities, we are likely to wax sociological and psychological about fashion, to weigh it down with quasiscientific meaning--out of some ancient fear, perhaps, of its obvious debt to Eros. | Fashion would not exist were it not for Eros. | neutral |
As Van Buren knew, parties are inherently democratic, the most effective way of organizing otherwise powerless individuals. | Van Buren was a democrat. | neutral |
The appeal lies partly in the weirdness of his obsessions (scantily clad little girls with penises), so pungently suggestive of an imagined world, says New York 's Mark Stevens. | Obsessions over scantily clad little girls with penises is a perfectly normal thing and Mark Stevens agrees. | contradiction |
Randy's Tough Love Wrap-Up | Randy has reached the end of his speech. | entailment |
Thanks to computers, however, investment banks now offer a vast array of financial instruments, and hedging has become much easier. | Investment banks now refuse to offer financial instruments that make hedging easier. | contradiction |
That was back when the Bushes were still trying to woo me over from the Dark Side. | The Bushes attempted to woo them over to their side. | entailment |
McLaren's followers retaliated by taking as hostages two neighbors who had long clamored for the leader's arrest. | McLaren was arrested. | neutral |
Lamar Alexander's campaign never got off the ground because the American people can recognize a phony (). | Lamar Alexander is a phony | entailment |
First Build the prototype. | The prototype needs to be built. | entailment |
What to do about that, I don't know. | What to do about that, I am unaware. | neutral |
It seems to me an unnecessary expense to spend many millions of dollars to reduce a few people's travel time by five minutes. | The speaker believes that saving a few people a few minutes on travel time is not worth the expense. | entailment |
At the first, Brock, under the guise of fairness, slings enough mud to drown a Bangladeshi village. | Brock has remained silent on the issue. | contradiction |
But, The Christians are at it again? | The Christians are standing down. | contradiction |
Think about seedless grapes or navel oranges--if there are no seeds, where did they come from? | all fruits have seeds. | contradiction |
The smallest of the major tobacco companies, the Liggett Group, agreed to a settlement with attorneys general from 22 states who had sued to recoup money spent on health care for smokers. | The Liggett Group claimed to have more profits then the other tobacco companies. | neutral |
Others, though, bash Pfitzner's work as a pale imitation of Wagner, massively bloated [and] endlessly meandering, and say its American performance would have been [b]etter never, perhaps, than late (Martin Bernheimer, the Los Angeles Times ). | Pfitzner's work has been criticized | entailment |
He said this concern had to do with the law, not with ethical and moral implications. | The concern had nothing to do with the law. | contradiction |
The new deterring nuclear, biological, or chemical warfare by lesser powers (formalizing President Bush's implicit warning to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War). | A directive was announced that formally deterred the use of weapons of mass destruction following Bush's warning. | entailment |
God, what do you think of me? | What a deity thinks of me is unconcerning to me. | contradiction |
Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details. | The household is so broken that they would never choose to stay in the same house. | contradiction |
Bradley, who has belittled Gore's microproposals (sprawl, traffic, etc.), will see his own self-proclaimed questioned. | Bradley's proposals aren't as defensible as Gore's were. | neutral |
Compare Moyers with 60 Minutes , whose rough-and-tumble, ambush journalism is the antithesis of his. | 60 Minutes has an aggressive and ruthless style. | contradiction |
In this particular case, the buyers come to Las Vegas to purchase the goods rather than having them shipped out of the city, but the economics are the same. | Las Vegas produces goods others want | entailment |
That's why This Week panelist Linda Douglass picked Johann Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press, as the man of the The written word enables us to preserve our laws. | Linda Douglass and Johann Gutenberg worked together. | entailment |
Come fall and winter, surges and stumbles will really mean something. | Inclines and declines are bound to happen in fall and winter. | entailment |
In other words, Bill Gross could break even--provided he was the only advertiser on the Web. | Bill Gross was sued for previous ads. | contradiction |
The Flytrap investigation is the only part of Starr's work that America a) understands and b) actually cares about. | There is a Flytrap investigation. | entailment |
The Nike and Reebok logos are now officially declared badges of shame. | Many see Nike and Reebok logos as badges of honor. | contradiction |
a) Starr's top deputy had spent much of the day briefing these people. | The briefing was over in just a few minutes. | contradiction |
Imagine a law school class with 100 places. | Imagining a law school class with 100 places is easy. | neutral |
Some changes in personal values are simply part of growing older. | Personal values solidify over time as people get older. | contradiction |
So, what kind of Jew am I after 60 years of consciousness-raising? | He is a practicing catholic. | contradiction |
House Majority Whip Tom DeLay has a plaque in his office that reads, This could be the day. | The House Majority Whip has a plaque on the desk of his office that says 'This could be the day'. | neutral |
As a result, Flowers and the troopers (and Zercher and McGrath) have a much greater incentive to spice up the truth or to invent a story out of whole cloth. | The author has doubts about the stories truthfullness. | entailment |
But Cole notes in his affidavit that these files are included with Internet Explorer when it is installed apart from Windows 95, from a disk or the Web. | The affidavit says Internet Explorer includes the files when it is installed. | entailment |
The example of loyalty and When he had just taken over as the chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, he hired a young staff economist named Ron Hoffman (brother of Dustin Hoffman). | Richard Nixon, also known as Tricky Dick, had a Council of Economic Advisers. | neutral |
The other piece on the recording, the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op. | The other copy includes the Fantasy for Pianoforte, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor Op. | entailment |
Ryan just isn't the man she thought she married ... | Ryan was married to her. | entailment |
Bang on drums and try to get the talking stick away from a weepy Tom DeLay. | Tom DeLay is in a good mood. | contradiction |
If no one needs you, what good are you, and what are you here for? | Being needed and useful gives you purpose in life. | entailment |
Bakis, with admirable audacity, has set herself the almost impossible task of making these dogs 'human' and just misses the mark, says the Journal . Fugitive Pieces is a poetic telling of the life of a Holocaust-survivor-turned-poet. | The poet Bakis is a Holocaust survivor. | entailment |
But the 20mph speed limit is probably obsolete. | Most vehicles can go over 20 mph. | entailment |
What makes the exhibition truly dreary, however, is the pretense that it's daring, when really it's an exercise in intellectual conformity. | Less than one person finds the exhibition boring. | contradiction |
What a fascinating and generous letter. | The letter was very interesting to the reader. | entailment |
The sportswriters were tapping on their laptops. | Sportswriters were pounding on the door. | contradiction |
Which brings us to possibility No. | The author did not consider other options. | neutral |
To some extent, Miller's fate is that of the Broadway stage. | Miller is an actor. | neutral |
99 percent chance that a Republican Congress will pursue any case Starr can deliver. | The Republicans have already decided that they will run with Starr's case, even with a paucity of material. | neutral |
He kept a personal ledger in which he recorded all the money he spent, even the $118 he paid for his wife's engagement ring, which he listed under Sundry Expenses. | The ring was gold | neutral |
Eleven billion dollars in shareholder value is $11 billion. | $11 billion in shareholder dollars is eleven billion plus eleven billion. | contradiction |
The news that I am laying waste to an entire generation of men exceeds my greatest ambition in this regard. | The bar for ambitions has been risen after laying waste to men. | neutral |
That is what rat choice teaches, and nobody has yet proved it wrong--even in theory. | Rat choices has not been proven wrong. | entailment |
The industry now plans to strengthen warnings that children should be kept, appropriately harnessed, in the back seat, where they will be neither helped nor harmed by air bags. | Warnings will be more pronounced, telling small individuals, they have to ride in back to avoid injury. | entailment |
If the Senate refuses to hold a confirmation hearing, he will continue in that acting job till the end of Clinton's presidency. | The senator will continue as acting Senator if he is not confirmed. | entailment |
Still, the tip of political e-commerce is beginning to poke up through the Web's surface. | Political e-commerce is a part of the internet | entailment |
In his frantic manipulating to get hold of Linda's tapes of Monica, he phoned me in New York and remembers it as | He phoned me in Las Vegas. | contradiction |
McCain : Theodore Roosevelt was my hero and is. | McCain looks up to Theofore Roosevelt. | entailment |
But aside from a few exceptions, the supply of genuinely offensive language has dwindled almost to nothing as the 20th century comes to an end; the currency of swearing has been inflated to the brink of worthlessness. | Few words were offensive at the end of the 20th century | entailment |
Thompson is no longer Hunter S. He performs a Hunter S. Thompson routine. | Thompson dropped the Hunter S. because of too much pressure | neutral |
Nigeria then sent troops to challenge the coup, evidently to restore the president and repair Nigeria's corrupt image abroad. | Nigeria is not seen as a fair country in the rest of the world. | entailment |
Nobody knew whether there was life on Mars because, oddly enough, nobody had looked until now. | Whether there was life on Mars was unknown because nobody had looked. | entailment |
The new law also makes it easier for broadcasters to renew their licenses, and requires TV manufacturers to install parent-friendly V-chips. | The kids are not impressed. | neutral |
Newsweek also lets Martha Stewart describe her successful foray into Web marketing. | Web marketing was the topic of Martha Stewart's discussion. | entailment |
Mind you, not just something wrong, but something that would separate you from God and send you to hell if death came before confession. | It is impossible to do something that would separate you from God | contradiction |
And The Street Lawyer isn't a novel, exactly. | There is a novel called The Street Lawyer | contradiction |
and that's when you get hit by the meteorite. | It is impossible for you to get hit by the meteorite, because they come from space and will always burn up in the atmosphere. | contradiction |
Sixty-eight percent favor a federal law to prevent job discrimination against gays and lesbians. | Most Americans support anti discrimination laws for gays and lesbians | entailment |
Powell, on the other hand, had a marriage, a child, lovers (male and female), loyal friends. | Powell had a family. | entailment |
Another source predicts if Sheen doesn't shape up, it's only a matter of time before they'll be printing his obituary. | Sheen will live forever. | contradiction |
The Grand Slam Breakfast just never took off. | The Grand Slam was too expensive. | neutral |
Until recently, their industry was illegal almost everywhere. | Almost everywhere, their industry was illegal. | entailment |
But Dowd must have had a little trouble making her word she hits Nexis (aka Columnist Helper) pretty hard, filling out her wicked but simple point with quotes from Alexander Woolcott, P.G. | Dowd used quotes from Alexander Woolcott, which she found in Nexis. | entailment |
He has threatened to veto the five remaining appropriations bills in the 2000 budget because of Republicans' proposed cuts in social programs. | He agrees with the Republicans to cut social programs. | contradiction |
But unlike Roosevelt, Rockefeller never developed the resilience to stay in power. | The president was lauded for his incompetence. | contradiction |
The cover package tweaks second-wave Silicon Valley entrepreneurs--business-school grads lured by lucre rather than a passion for the Web. | Business school grads are not motivated by money or lavish lifestyles. | contradiction |
A correction in this space on Saturday omitted mention of the rabbit. | The rabbit was not mentioned originally. | entailment |
He is much more heartfelt about prison reform than about Wachtler reform. | He is heartfelt about prison reform. | entailment |
Democrats think they're immune to this attack because they've got both ends of the spectrum On the removal question, the polls are on Clinton's side, and on the moral question, on which the polls are against Clinton, Democrats have acknowledged and condemned his misconduct. | Clinton will not be removed | neutral |
Our compassion must defend the disabled. | We have compassion for everyone less fortunate than ourselves. | neutral |
I'd far rather read those sexy economics columns by Paul Krugman. | I read sexy Paul Krugman's economic columns. | entailment |
on going to the cinema, you would be seeing American films sold for foreign consumption, Molotov argued. | Molotov argued for Chinese films sold for foreign consumption. | contradiction |
The Chechen Russia is trying to take us over again. | We have been taken over by Chechen Russia in the past. | entailment |
Although critics find Cities of the Plain less inventive than All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing , they still celebrate McCarthy's Faulkneresque use of flowing, punctuationless sentences and arcane language. | The author who uses Faulkneresque sentences is acclaimed by both critics and readers | neutral |
Shuman's Second Law of Computational Dynamics suggests so. | There is more than one law for computational dynamics. | entailment |
One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin. | Cybill Shepherd and her former fiancé Robert Martin are likely to at least give it another try. | neutral |
The vote was 295-136--better than a two-thirds majority--which means that opponents of the ban must once again depend on the Senate to sustain a presidential veto. | Senators are capable of negating the executive's decision. | entailment |
The relationship it describes may strike many as exploitative or ugly for other reasons, but it is not illegal. | The relationship between the older person and younger person seems wrong despite it being legal. | neutral |
For all I know, some hockey fans go for the fights. | I go for the hockey | neutral |
What a country should not apologize for is a basically sound foreign policy. | The country needs to apologize for its sound foreign policy. | contradiction |
How, therefore, am I ever to recognize the (minimum) 20 percent wrong in most articles? | I recognize the 20 percent wrong in articles | contradiction |
It's almost barbaric in a certain way. | Some see it as cruel. | entailment |
Unfortunately, mine were no less vocal in their objections to being kicked out of our bed at those ages than when they were infants. | children dislike sleeping with parents | contradiction |
What will eventually arise is a confrontation of her own availability for intimacy, which she never has to examine as long as these men are unavailable. | She identifies as straight and is attracted to nearby men. | neutral |
The decline in prices to their fundamental level may be gradual, and even a crash may not turn into a larger economic disaster. | The declining of prices to their fundamental will definitely be drastic. | contradiction |
And even then, James added, it's all humbug. | James is thrilled. | contradiction |
I realize now that the cameras and microphones were probably installed by [the Globe ] while I was out, she reports. | There were cameras installed. | entailment |
I don't believe in group thinking--pitting one group of people against another. | Competition is this person's favorite. | contradiction |
The World Is Not Enough , Brosnan brings the right Flemingesque irritation to the opening chase. | The film would benefit from a chase scene. | contradiction |
The test for Putin, says Berger, is the economy, stupid. | Putin is going to run for Office in the far future. | neutral |
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