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We will be back on the authorizing bills, we will be back on the appropriations bills when the fiscal 1998 and 1999 funds come up, and again we are going to continue this 1997 effort as well. | The sticking point in the 1997 effort is the months of October through December. | neutral |
If I really own my modem, then I must have an unqualified right to dial up anywhere, any time, and suck in whatever is out there to be sucked. | It is illegal to own your own modem | contradiction |
Indeed, increasing returns have traditionally been used as arguments against free markets, for government intervention. | Free markets lead to increasing returns. | entailment |
Orrin Hatch said Americans are entitled to know about felonies committed by a candidate. | Hatch believes politcians are pure and innocent beings. | contradiction |
The Chechen Russia is trying to take us over again. | Chechen Russia will be taking us over very soon. | neutral |
Wolfe doesn't see himself as primarily a satirist. | Wolfe believes that satire isn't his only genre. | entailment |
Wag the Dog director Barry Levinson writes that his movie was just a joke but compares Hillary Clinton's allegation of a right-wing conspiracy to the distraction ploys found in the film. | Barry Levinson doesn't have a high opinion of Hillary Clinton. | entailment |
Eastwood did more to make killing casual than anyone in mainstream cinema. | They were complex films | neutral |
1 bank in loans, deposits, business lending (large and small), and ATMs (15,000); | There are many more ATMs than banks | entailment |
The most extreme version of this concept, called group selection, is Gaia, which suggests that all of life cooperates so as to ensure its continued survival. | Gaia suggests that all life is interconnected. | entailment |
Police are said to be inept and corrupt. | as statistics show. | neutral |
Microsoft's position is a reflection of an economic phenomenon often referred to as network externalities (a k a positive economic feedback or increasing returns to scale). | A company that produces an operating system current position reflects an economic phenomenon called network externalities | entailment |
Remember, the last guy to argue for a distinction between ideology and competence was Michael Dukakis. | Someone else has argued about this distinction. | neutral |
Maybe lime green was a big mistake, but it's his mistake to live with. | If the lime green was a mistake, he has to live with it. | entailment |
The little bird is what told housewares manufacturers that teakettles could be a hot commercial item and led to the current proliferation. | Housewares manufacturers were told by the little bird that circular saws could be a hot commercial item. | contradiction |
The situation will be like that in a cabaret, where you cannot sit down at a table and watch the show without paying something. | After paying, you sit down and enjoy the show very much | neutral |
But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response. | Candidates avoid canned responses for fear of seeming robotic. | contradiction |
In the case of drug testing, however, the proposed warrantless blanket invasions of privacy serve only a symbolic value. | The idea of surprise home drug testing is not enforceable. | neutral |
Unlike Howard Stern and Dave Letterman, Feldman sees to it that his foils have as much fun as he does. | Feldman is just like Howard Stern | contradiction |
Tina and the Weinsteins all have highbrow pretensions but feel no shame in embracing pop culture. | Tina and the Weinsteins are fans of the Kardashians. | neutral |
The nanny, by comparison, can be trusted to control the children, but her constant presence irritates the children and slows down the shoot. | Nannies have only negative effects on children. | contradiction |
(Or to comment on his current incompetence--it's an open secret on the Hill that Thurmond has lost it. | Thurmond is currently incompetent. | entailment |
Henry James complained to Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter of 1904 that the historical novel had a fatal cheapness. | Henry James wrote a glowing review of the book in a letter mailed to Sarah Orne. | contradiction |
b) Did not quit on principle after Clinton admitted lies. | Clinton's lies were about sexual behavior | neutral |
Norquist has been spreading the word that Rupert Murdoch, the Standard 's owner, must stop funding the magazine. | Norquist wants Rupert to continue funding the magazine. | contradiction |
How does the high-minded dismissal work? | The way the high-minded dismissal works is self-explanatory. | neutral |
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. | Newsweek reported that Clinton made a pass at Wiley at the White House in 1993. | entailment |
Now along comes PK to blame men. | PK is masandrist | neutral |
All it would take is for a few prominent politicians to stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls. | All they need to do is stop elevating lobbyists to high office, and to quit taking their calls. | entailment |
We don't have rational drug policies in the streets or public schools because we don't have rational discussions about drug use. | Drug use policies are banned in educational institutions. | contradiction |
Junger is grimly precise about the mechanics of drowning, says Time 's John Skow. | Junger knows a lot about the human body. | neutral |
We see a worker clocking in while the narrator points to 10 million new jobs and, as the spot cuts to a Kennedyesque Clinton with children, it concludes with the phrase a better future. | The ad promotes Clinton's time as President. | entailment |
Better health care affects athletic ability directly. | Healthcare affects athletic abilities in many indirect ways. | contradiction |
A third of people who almost die report experiencing a spiritual vision. | A good percentage of people who experience near death experiences claim they have had spiritual visions. | entailment |
But Jacob was pierced by shafts of doubt. | Jacob's will was unfettered and he carried on, unconcerned. | contradiction |
In particular, he has spoken of Salon 's dedication to a mission of exposing important facts. | He is the editor in chief of Salon | neutral |
It is hard to understand how Grisham pulls this off. | Grisham achieved this through a predictable path. | contradiction |
I would take an expression in the Oval Office of 'Dear God, Help Me,' Bush responded. | Bush had an excellent sense of humor, both before, and after being elected. | neutral |
Among experts who treat and study compulsive behaviors and chemical dependencies, there is controversy over the meaning of the term addiction and the efficacy of the disease model for a range of supposed addictions, from alcoholism to compulsive gambling. | Alcoholism may not necessarily be considered an addiction. | entailment |
They were pitiful even by microbial standards. | They were the best of the best. | contradiction |
Critics applaud rookie Belgian director Alan Berliner's film, about a 7-year-old boy who yearns to be a girl, for giving an inside report ... | Alan Berliner is a movie director. | entailment |
We also don't know how life originates and to what extent it evolves in an orderly pattern. | People know how life originates. | contradiction |
The New York Times reported that HMOs, rationing, and other medical-insurance nightmares conjured up in 1994 by enemies of the Clinton health-care plan are coming to pass anyway. | The New York Times reported that Clinton had passed. | contradiction |
A cover story tracks the gestation of Paul Simon's The Capeman , a Broadway musical opening in January. | Newspapers have written about the broadway show on their front covers. | entailment |
In Russia, under the headline Reds in the White House? | The headline reads "Reds in the White House?" | entailment |
Pleasure, for Klein, is the opposite of It's all about gratification and excess. | Klien is drawn more to gratification. | entailment |
I'm afraid to step out of the car. | Leaving this vehicle could leave me at the mercy of the elements. | neutral |
South Carolina likes re-electing Between Hollings and Thurmond, South Carolina has, what, 8,000 years of Senate seniority? | Hollings and Thurmond were repeatedly reelected because their constituents felt they performed well. | neutral |
Considering how hard it was for the extraordinary Frank McCourt to learn how to teach, one has to wonder whether individual teachers can really measure their own progress. | Frank McCourt's teaching method is what aspiring teachers look up to and try to emulate. | neutral |
Once considered a model of social scientific method and a source of broad insights into the way people live, the discipline had become directionless, intellectually moribund, and hopelessly overspecialized, with departments across the country scaling back or disappearing altogether. | The method has a bright future | contradiction |
Avis' profits jumped 35 percent in the first six months of employee ownership, and the company remained profitable for the next decade. | Avis is planning to accept bitcoin for it's services. | neutral |
Speed Racer's musical theme--Go Speed Racer, go! | Speed Racer was an unknown cartoon that fizzled out quickly. | contradiction |
Hong Kongers are increasingly restless about Chinese rule. | Great numbers of residents of Hong Kong have flown China in order to escape Chinese rule. | neutral |
He has since criticized Buchanan directly and encouraged Weicker to run for the Reform Party's nomination. | He favors Weicker over Buchanan for the party's nomination. | entailment |
Waking Ned Devine might have been a snooze if Jones hadn't stocked it with a slew of old actors with magically lived-in visages. | Old actors were in Waking Ned Devine. | entailment |
As was the case with Reebok, Hilfiger's pursuit of the minority market has exposed him to a backlash (it's probably no accident that Lauren, whose turf he invaded, was cast as the good guy in the Klensch Style story). | Lauren is a minority | neutral |
While information is comparatively fresh and large numbers of the survivors are still around, why not institute similar reparations to be paid by Russia to victims of the Gulag? | There are large numbers of Gulag survivors who should be paid reparations by Russia. | neutral |
(Actually, you could have as many judges as you wanted, as long as you ignored all but one of them.) | The judges are in reference to local supreme courts. | neutral |
Now that consumers know that there is a fluid aftermarket for video games, they are more likely to go into a store and buy one of these games for full price on the day it comes out. | Teens know that in the future, they'll be able to easily find someone to buy their video game when they tire of it. | entailment |
In 1982, Ronald Reagan invoked this right to keep EPA documents about toxic-waste disposal from Congress. | Ronald Reagan wanted to keep information about toxic waste from Congress. | entailment |
I loved everything about talking to the folks who schlepped there on a Sunday morning; the comic effect of having a guy dressed like McGruff, the Crime Dog from public service ads, standing behind Dole. | They arrived before 8 am | neutral |
I assume that the whole thing was being broadcast, although I came in at the beginning of the last act. | I came in during the last act of the whole thing, which was probably being broadcast. | entailment |
The House passed the partial-birth-abortion ban , as expected. | More than 250 representatives voted against the bill to ban partial-birth-abortion | contradiction |
Even a decade ago, a movie about Wilde and his gay affair would have been considered Today, it's a cliche. | Some time ago, a movie about Wilde's gay affair would have been commonplace | contradiction |
In Ireland, compassionate teachers would seem to be painfully rare. | Teachers in Ireland are becoming more compassionate. | neutral |
Except the Jews, who have to sit inside and watch Davey and Goliath over and over and over again. | Jews watch Davey and Goliath only once | contradiction |
His first effort was the prototype pop hit After The Ball, which, 104 years later, you can still hear every night of the week in the current Broadway revival of Show Boat . Back then, it began earning him $25,000 per week almost immediately, and went on to sell 5 million copies of sheet music. | Over a century later, the music and trappings of After the Ball are still popular with audiences. | neutral |
The problem, for Slate and other Internet sites, comes from having to charge for usage, when what they're selling is intellectual property with a flat production cost. | The cost of paying authors for their work, limits the profitability of Internet sites. | entailment |
Forcing HMOs to stay in a failing business cannot be good for seniors and would chill entry by others. | If HMOs are required to maintain in a system that is bad, others will feel discouraged to enter. | entailment |
These lawyers might make the case that even tobacco companies have rights, and that the public interest actually was served by getting these companies a better bargain. | The public interest was harmed by getting these companies a better bargain, but tobacco companies have rights | contradiction |
The third-most-visited Gore site, according to Direct Hit, is an Al Gore joke repository, posted on the home page of a GeoCities member and sponsored by the Ripon College Republicans. | One of the most accessed sets of webpages when searching for 'Gore' is about the former vice-presidential candidate Al Gore. | entailment |
(For example, he guaranteed Bosnian Croats, who are wildly nationalistic, 12 seats in the parliament--even though they don't live in Croatia.) | 10 of the seats went to Bosnian Croat men, and 2 went to women | neutral |
None of the Jewish groups has reversed its support for Pollard's release. | Jewish groups think Pollard is innocent. | neutral |
I have bitten my tongue all week, but I finally said something to the brat. | It took a lot of courage to say something to the brat | neutral |
The milk proponents offer a variety of responses as to why osteoporosis is far less common in the nonmilk-drinking world. | The entire world consume large amounts of dairy. | contradiction |
Ianni writes, Johnson essentially worked as a middleman for the Italian syndicate. | The job paid well | neutral |
Our culture now interprets nearly all pleasures as addictions--or potential addictions. | The category of addictions has broadened but individual addictions have shrunk. | neutral |
Perhaps this was a subversive act, the urinal-drain-guard manufacturer inviting us to piss on the United States' failed drug policy. | The manufacturer intentionally placed the graphic on the drain-guards to disrespect the government's failure. | neutral |
In part, this is because Las Vegas has itself become one of the world's most powerful brand names. | Las Vegas has become a powerful brand name | entailment |
Indeed, increasing returns have traditionally been used as arguments against free markets, for government intervention. | The government has yet to intervene in free markets. | contradiction |
The problem, Keynes wrote, was that people desire the moon--a perfectly safe place to store their wealth. | People don't worry about their wealth being stolen. | contradiction |
An early version of this sort of thing that I recall with particular pleasure was Mad magazine's East Side Story --that being the location of the United Nations. | Mad magazine first published East Side Story in the 1990s. | neutral |
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. | Film has been around for several centuries | contradiction |
Get With It, Ye of Little Faith | The writer has faith | neutral |
Nor is it the result of the benign policies of national governments, which are as callous and corrupt as ever. | Governments are unimpeachable and good. | contradiction |
All we've done is checked that the first two creditors divided their collective share of $125 appropriately | The $125 was shared appropriately between the first two creditors, as was every other creditors share. | neutral |
I have bitten my tongue all week, but I finally said something to the brat. | I spoke my mind as soon as I could | contradiction |
I describe the Brave New World as a horror, and Huxley thought of it as that also. | Huxley became a millionaire after writing Brave New World. | neutral |
He thought they bloomed for just the right length of time, smartly disappearing before you can tire of them. | The roses only bloom for a little while. | entailment |
It's not just a question of men disinclined to violence getting killed off. | Men inclined to violence also get killed off. | neutral |
However you fiddle with the rates, there will always be a perceived penalty on somebody. | Changing the rates will make everyone happy. | contradiction |
The larger bill would fortify the Border Patrol, facilitate deportations, and restrict the benefits available to illegal aliens; the detached bill would let states exclude children of illegal aliens from public schools. | The bills will benefit the illegal alliens. | contradiction |
We must have unselfish, far-seeing leadership or we fail. | Long term thinking leaders are the best bet. | entailment |
The tobacco industry suffered a potentially catastrophic defection. | The defector was a whistleblower | neutral |
NAAG meets four times a year so its various committees can hash out ideas for litigation, like the billing fraud case now being developed against the hospital chains. | NAAG meets once per year | contradiction |
The cover story protests the Fed's failure to hike interest rates despite early signs of inflation. | The Fed's actions to combat inflation were seen as a failure. | entailment |
Despite all the completely compelling arguments offered in the preceding paragraphs, it would be silly and dishonest to insist that | The arguments in the previous paragraphs are not convincing. | entailment |
As was the case with Reebok, Hilfiger's pursuit of the minority market has exposed him to a backlash (it's probably no accident that Lauren, whose turf he invaded, was cast as the good guy in the Klensch Style story). | Hilfiger invaded Lauren's turf | entailment |
The formula doesn't exist. | There isn't a formula. | entailment |
In any case, if I had actually been interested in buying the print, with the help of the Web, I would have been in a far better position to negotiate a favorable price. | I will pay a higher price despite the disadvantage. | neutral |
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